Daniel Neale

Posts mostly about financial secrecy and global corruption. Still trying to make sense of my 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇧🇪 identity.

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

Free trade zones remain one of the weakest links in the fight against dirty money because of how easy it is to engage in the three stages of money laundering: placement, layering and integration. Find out more in my latest piece! https://t.co/thanvH1nZ8

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

@XPERTDelivery you have now cancelled my scheduled collection TWICE in the past week due to alleged "problems with the vehicle". On both occasions I have been left waiting at home like a fool - why are you so useless and incompetent?

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

@British_Airways I cancelled my booking and got a voucher instead. However, I only wanted to cancel the second leg of my journey (LDN-AMS) and the action has cancelled the entire booking. Could you please help?

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

#PandoraPapers data is from 14 offshore service providers - there are tens of thousand more out there. To say that the problem is endemic is as much of an understatement as saying that we have counted all the grains of sand in the world.

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

Meet the firms whose confidential records make up the basis of the #PandoraPapers: The Secrecy Brokers 👇
https://t.co/cZZgZqRsId

[Nate Sibley @NateSibley]

Stunningly good essay, even by @navalny standards, on how corruption underpins most of the “big” issues that leave naive Western policymakers scratching their heads, from Afghanistan failure to climate change.

Please take a couple minutes to read it! https://t.co/Cw6DZbQzUL

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

Fantastic new report. Congrats to everyone at @IllicitFlows for this great piece of work.

[Global Financial Integrity @IllicitFlows]

GFI's new report uses case analysis to identify trends in real estate money laundering

In the US:
🌏82% of cases involved foreign money
👨‍💼53% involved politically exposed persons
🏡90% involved residential properties
🏢35% involved commercial properties

https://t.co/OevA7AyRld

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

Fantastic effort from civil society, private sector and academia to promote beneficial ownership transparency (and make my job much easier). But why haven't FATF and other public sector institutions added to the push?

[Transparency International @anticorruption]

🔴 700+ signatories from 120 countries call on #UNGASS2021 to set a new global standard on #beneficialownership transparency. Our statement: https://t.co/eYd0ZkOyOz

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

@deporvillage Enviado

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

@deporvillage alguien me puede responder a los emails y llamadas para que me efectúen un reembolso? Llevo probando más de una semana ya.

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

@KoosCouvee From recent @OCCRP investigation: https://t.co/4DOKE1tpje

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

Financial secrecy is a constant race to the bottom. The lowest bidder, the country asking the least questions and best investment incentives, will attract the offshore business model. Where to look after #OpenLux? Dubai the prime suspect.

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

@tristram_hicks From recent @OCCRP investigation: https://t.co/4DOKE1tpje

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

@parcelforce thanks for losing my parcel. I have received confirmation from your team (after chasing for 3 weeks) that there is no way of locating it, and was told to file a claim with the seller. No responsibility from your side or willingness to resolve matter. Disgraceful.

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

Of the $22 billion awarded in contracts, about HALF went to companies with political connections, no prior experience or histories of controversy. https://t.co/BuNW8yQmXF

[Sasha Chavkin @sashachavkin]

The new @ICIJorg investigation - #FinCENFiles - is making waves across Latinamerica.

From Mexico to Argentina, our partners have revealed the shady payments that flowed through banks in the region.

Here is a thread of #FinCENFiles stories in Latinamerica.

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

Further evidence that #FinCENFiles are, above all, a failure of government. The big auction houses facilitated transactions primarily because they weren't required to report suspicious activity.

Change the laws. Strengthen enforcement. Increase funding.

https://t.co/9Q6TPHFvnY

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

Does anyone know if it's possible to obtain the complete data from #FinCENFiles w/ UBO's and companies involved? @ICIJorg

[Franz Wild @wildfranz]

More than revealing any individual misdeeds, the #FinCENFiles are a monument to failed regulation.

SARs are supposed to be a tool to limit dirty money, but they seem, here, to be a hymn to a giant free-for-all.

More even than a failure by the banks, it's a failure by government

[Josie Ensor @Josiensor]

“What exploded in Beirut is not just ammonium nitrate. It is above all corruption, mismanagement, incompetency and cynical disregard for the security and lives of the people,” said Dyab Abou Jahjah, summing up the mood of the nation https://t.co/4PG6YeWUEG

[Bradley Hope @bradleyhope]

Former Prime Minister Najib Razak got 12 years in prison for first of many criminal charges. Now, the question on everyone's lips: What about Jho Low? #billiondollarwhale https://t.co/45hIfR9HFY via @WSJ

[Daniel Neale @danieneale]

@tim_cook How about you pay tax on those massive profits your make each year? Health services are underfunded and understaffed for a reason. We don't need more false philanthropism, thank you very much.