Powerful legal and financial services enable kleptocracy, research shows
Powerful legal and financial service industries are enabling kleptocracy and corrupt elites to operate with relative impunity, a new study...
Professor John Heathershaw
University of Exeter expert joins leading journalists and lawyers to call for amendments to the Anti-SLAPP Bill
A University of Exeter expert on international kleptocracy has joined leading editors, lawyers, journalists, academics and experts to call for...
Major new study to identify Kleptocratic “red flags” and craft new anti-corruption rules
A major new study to identify kleptocracy’s “red flags” will help create better rules and regulations to fight worldwide corruption....
UK has been a “leading enabler” of corrupt elites in Central Asia, new report warns
The UK’s failure to stem flows of illicit money through financial systems means the country has been a leading enabler...
University of Exeter experts honoured for their work to inform the fight against international kleptocracy
University of Exeter experts have been honoured for their work to help inform the fight against international kleptocracy and bring...
Strategies of kleptocrats and their enablers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, experts warn
International assessments of corruption can’t properly show the increasingly sophisticated way elite people from rogue states use global networks to...
Britain appears as a “useful idiot” to corrupt Central Asian elites, experts warn
Britain appears as a “useful idiot” to corrupt Central Asian elites because UK-based professionals can hide and secure ill-gotten gains,...
Report on illicit finance helps influence government
The UK’s Kleptocracy’s Problem, led by Professor John Heathershaw, is a major report which shows how the UK has been exposed to...