Australia now requires lawyers, accountants and real estate agents to report suspicious customers, at huge cost – but will this help fight crime?
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Buyers will face more scrutiny as anti-money laundering rules expand to cover real estate agents, lawyers and conveyancers.
The art market attracts money-laundering activities. How can it better protect itself?
Prosecutors in the United Kingdom have charged Tate, and his brother with 21 offences. It’s likely to make his millions of followers even more loyal to him.
Dismantling one of the world’s deadliest terror group’s access to illicit economies is key to countering its activities.
To curb the illicit drugs trade, law enforcement should look beyond individual drug busts and focus on capturing the illegal money that reaches so many parts of the global economy.
The UK’s indulgence of kleptocratic elites from Russia and Eurasia is an acute example of the phenomenon of professional enabling.
‘Forest mafia’ are fueling ‘narco-deforestation’ through illegal land acquisition, mineral extraction, and poaching.
Food fraud costs billions globally. But blockchain and machine learning offer hope for a more transparent and safer food system.
A well governed financial system is effectively supervised by the central bank.
Kenya must complete a national terrorist financing risk assessment and share it publicly.
The downfall of the onetime multibillionaire holds lessons for investors and regulators alike.
Cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried may face a jail term of more than a century after conviction on seven counts of fraud and money laundering.
Higher education institutions are not explicitly included within the UK’s anti-money laundering regulations.
Numerous terrorist attacks in the UK and abroad have been financed by fraud and the government needs to close financial loopholes to prevent future tragedies.
Banks in the UK have to conduct extra checks on people more at risk of blackmail – and an easier option is sometimes just to say no to giving them and account.
For 16 years, the government has failed to reform our anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws to include professionals like real estate agents and lawyers.
In a world where economic sanctions make trade in US dollars almost impossible, gold has offered a way to evade these restrictions.
The Economic Crime Bill is supposed to be riding to the rescue, but it won’t make much difference in its current form.
In being grey listed South Africa joins a list of countries with poor governance. Others are war zones or countries with jihadist terror groupings operating on their land.
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Professor of Law, Cardiff University
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Business Ethics Lecturer, Cardiff University
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Professor of Law, La Trobe University
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Professor, UTS Business, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct professor, Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University
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Lecturer in Fraud and Financial Crime Studies, Charles Sturt University
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Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Macquarie University
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Economist and Postgraduate Supervisor, University of Lancashire; Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University