Brussels, 10 October 2018 – The doors of Europe are open to criminals and the corrupt, thanks to lax, opaque, and mismanaged ‘Golden Visa’ schemes, according to a report released today by Transparency International and Global Witness. The two...
Recent scandals from Panama Papers to the Russian Laundromat and the Paradise Papers have shown how current systemic weaknesses in anti-money laundering (AML) systems can be abused on a large scale. One of the main lessons is that nothing can be...
This article is based on the transcript of Transparency International EU’s Director Carl Dolan’s speech at the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly Meeting in Brussels on 27 June 2018. Thank you Chair, Honourable Members, I would like to...
Even though the importance of financial transparency is widely recognized, it seems unlikely that the German grand coalition would push public country-by-country reporting forward in the Council of the European Union, after Transparency...
Call for tenders Application deadline: 18 May 2018 Purpose of Assignment Produce a paper analysing how anti-money laundering (AML) obligations interplay with sector-specific obligations such as client confidentiality or public interest duty (e.g....
On 9 February 2018, Transparency International EU responded to the Monitoring Group consultation on “Strengthening the Governance and Oversight of the International Audit-related Standard-setting Boards in the Public Interest” calling for civil...
Berlin / Brussels, 5 March, 2018 – Today, a series of investigations published by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have detailed how citizenship- and residence-by-investment schemes, commonly referred to as...
TI EU is recruiting a consultant related to the project, which aims to explore the role the EU can play in facilitating responsible asset recovery looking at both the general EU legal and policy framework. It also looks into more targeted...
Tomorrow, Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign affairs chief, will chair the EU–Azerbaijan Cooperation Council with the Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov. The Azerbaijani Laundromat, which was revealed by the OCCRP last...
