Imagine if you could make a secret application to have your opponent’s global assets frozen and disclosed to you, to…
KLEPTOCRACY
Freedom Holding Corp. has some explaining to do. The financial services firm has quite improbably become one of the fastest growing…
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 closed…
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…
The presidency of Joe Biden comes at a time when there is a growing awareness of “kleptocracies”— countries where a…
A leaked European Commission draft indicates urgency to harmonize the bloc’s rules to tackle failings that have made the region…