Two decades ago, at a meeting with top business leaders in his oil-rich Central Asian country, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev…
WASHINGTON — Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Commissioner Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), and…
The presidency of Joe Biden comes at a time when there is a growing awareness of “kleptocracies”— countries where a…
The members of the G7 recently reached an agreement to curtail global tax avoidance by multinationals, which accounts for more than one-third…
Companies close to the former president enjoy a monopoly on lucrative recycling fees. Right around the time that Kazakhstan set out its…
This article is part of a collaboration between the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Oxus Society for Central Asian…
Report of the High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda
In January 20, 2021 article titled “The ‘Red Apple’ And The Plan Followed By Turkey; The Eurasian Dream of Erdoğan,”…
Executive Summary In addition to more widely studied tools like cyberattacks and disinformation, authoritarian regimes such as Russia and China…
REPORTS
WASHINGTON — Helsinki Commission Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin (MD), Co-Chairman Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09), Commissioner Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), and…
On Tuesday, the Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a resolution welcoming the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime while calling for…
New laws have expanded the government’s remit for asset freezes, and firms will have to be careful who they do…
Kazakh Opposition sent to UK Authorities the summary of research into London Secret Properties controlled by Dariga Nazarbayeva, Dictator Nursultan…
Leaders of organized criminal groups, dictators who steal from their people, crooked officials, and other shady characters have become adept…
Witnesses: Professor John Heathershaw (Associate Professor of International Relations at University of Exeter), Thomas Mayne (Research Fellow, Department of Politics…
LEAKS NEWS
The Panama Papers scandal helped create a “snowball effect” of international awareness on how anonymous corporate vehicles can enable tax…
Five years after the Panama Papers were first published, authorities are still clawing back lost tax dollars and prosecuting wrongdoers…
On the fifth anniversary of the Panama Papers’ launch, experts say there’s been progress in the fight against dirty money…
Billionaire banker Mukhtar Ablyazov was Kazakhstan’s minister of energy and trade from 1998 to 1999. In 2009, Ablyazov fled Kazakhstan…