WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it has returned an additional $452 million stolen from Malaysia’s investment fund…
KLEPTOCRACY
The Financial Action Task Force’s unintended consequences study will point to necessary reforms that the watchdog will be unwilling to…
Imagine if you could make a secret application to have your opponent’s global assets frozen and disclosed to you, to…
Freedom Holding Corp. has some explaining to do. The financial services firm has quite improbably become one of the fastest…
02 Aug: Isabel dos Santos ordered to return to Angola $500 million in shares ‘tainted by illegality’
An international tribunal ruled that the billionaire and her late husband corruptly obtained a lucrative stake from the state oil…
What do the Iranian government, a fugitive international jeweler, and a disgraced Harvard University fencing coach have in common? They…
WASHINGTON — Early in 2018, when Ukrainian media reported that Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko had been denied entry into the United…
Turkmenistan’s model of kleptocracy is toxic — and the international community knows about it. Turkmenistan is one of the most…
On July 6, Kazakhstan celebrated Capital City Day in commemoration of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s 1994 decision to move the…
Two decades ago, at a meeting with top business leaders in his oil-rich Central Asian country, Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev…