G20 war on money laundering starts in Qld

Cash notes pegged to a clothes line.
Centre for Governance and Public Policy
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Brisbane’s G20 summit can be a turning point in the battle to stop dirty money flowing between countries — like the nearly $30 million in Russian money found recently in Gold Coast bank accounts — according to a global anti-corruption fighter to speak in Brisbane this week. Elena Panfilova, Director of Transparency International Russia, will […]

Brisbane conference targets ‘shell’ companies

Jason Sharman, in white shirt, on university campus
Centre for Governance and Public Policy
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G20 leaders have an opportunity to make a real impact in the fight against untraceable ‘shell’ companies when they meet in Brisbane later this year, a Griffith University researcher has claimed. Professor Jason Sharman, from Griffith’s Centre for Governance and Public Policy, said there has never been a better time to crack down on the […]

New rules fail to clean out dirty money

Centre for Governance and Public Policy
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Australia and other leading economic nations are playing an unwitting role in hiding illegal money, even ranking worse than some of the world’s more infamous tax havens. A new study led by Griffith University researcher Professor Jason Sharman has found the constraints around forming potentially misleading shell companies are less rigorous in Australia, Canada, the […]