Manafort’s real estate deals | Ukraine’s corruption curse | China pursues U.S. whistleblower

Manafort’s lobbyists | Putin’s “Panama Papers” revenge | Australia’s Chinese student dilemma

A bipartisan case against corporate anonymity | China buys Greece | Manafort used former Obama lawyer in Yanukovych whitewash

U.S. convicts Guinean ex-minister over China bribes | U.S. & Japan use financial leverage over NK | Scottish nurse’s brush with offshore crime networks

Kleptocracy Weekly is KI’s round-up of news and features on how globalized corruption threatens democracy. UNITED STATES The U.S. Treasury’s FinCEN extended and expanded Geographic Targeting Orders, a pilot scheme requiring beneficial ownership information on customers in high-value real estate deals. GTOs now include wire transfers, previously a major omission, and “will now cover every big-ticket cash transaction…

Western universities acquiesce to China | Russian capital flight equivalent to total household wealth | Focus on Chinese state-owned firms

Putin’s Achilles Heel: Western offshore finance | Echoes of Yukos in Rosneft case | GTO expansion closes US real estate loophole

Fighting dirty money in US real estate: GTO scheme extended | Russia & China firms sanctioned | Global AML a “decimal point” from failure

Angola buys Portugal | Cambridge stands up to Beijing | Mueller targets Manafort

Trump campaign meeting lobbyist has extensive Russian connections | Australia cracks down on Bitcoin | Global AML risks are getting worse