The Financial Action Task Force (#FATF; @FATFNews) faces a range of challenges that are increasingly raising questions about its continued legitimacy. @keatingetom speaks with two FATF insiders @dlonaml and Michelle Harwood to learn more: https://t.co/Kjms0nHvrd
“A common tactic uses profiles supposedly of women in headhunting firms with experience in HR management, consulting, national policy or academia, or who have a background working for a foreign think tank.” https://t.co/pENuwr4WBy
Officiellement, l'UE considère ne plus compter de #ParadisFiscaux. Ok.
Maintenant, regardons la liste des pays qui ont déjà coupé leur registre des bénéficiaires effectifs suite à la décision de la CJUE.
Pays-Bas
Irlande
Malte
Chypre
Belgique
Luxembourg
(et Allemagne et Autriche)
🚨 One week to go until the #RAFT22 Conference!
We are pleased to share the first panel on the counterterrorism financing #CTF journey with @LaurentMuschel, Sue Eckert and @dlonaml, moderated by @keatingetom.
➡️ See the full agenda here: https://t.co/UdgY3INCcN
‘The most powerful organisation you’ve never heard of’ @FATFNews
“For authoritarian regimes, the FATF’s standards have been co-opted to justify the suppression and discrediting of critics on dubious or unfounded grounds” https://t.co/M4OXqmH8OX
Whilst not for a minute suggesting there is anything suspicious about this particular registration, it does reveal the inherent weakness of the overseas register of U.K. properties.
The owner of a U.K. property registered in BVI is a bank in Bermuda. 🤷🏼
https://t.co/vY9o6jTUxV
📰'A pandemic, 2 catastrophic floods, 3 sovereign credit downgrades, riots and high unemployment meet a close friend, South Africa, at a bar…' what happens next❓ @SashaErskine & @keatingetom in @News24 on #FATF’s likely greylisting:
👇👇https://t.co/RPsuRwJHCw
📢NEW INVESTIGATION📢
1/5 We’ve tracked down the masterminds and minions throughout Europe that make up five of the busiest Russia-facing corporate secrecy agencies.
Here's our top piece
https://t.co/qXV6s9akfD
Crime fighting agencies cannot tackle oligarchs without serious financial backing.
Reducing NCA and SFO staff numbers is the wrong approach and sends the wrong signal.
https://t.co/1JUNw9lfmK
#FATF Facts: Aruba have joined Spain and the Holy See as the only countries in the world rated ‘substantially effective’ on supervision and preventive measures (Immediate Outcomes 3 & 4) 🤔 https://t.co/QN7D16lyN2