Synopses & Reviews
Corruption is the biggest single obstacle to development, while money laundering is at the heart of all profit-driven crime. The failure to appreciate the intimate linkages between these two crimes has undermined international efforts to combat these global scourges. Through a policy and legal analysis, this book shows how corruption facilitates money laundering and vice versa. It demonstrates how strategies utilized to counter one type of financial crime can be adapted to fight the other. Chaikin and Sharman provide a pioneering evaluation of the current systems from multi-disciplinary perspective based on professional experience and extensive interviews.
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Through a policy and legal analysis, this book shows how corruption facilitates money laundering, and vice versa. Furthermore, it demonstrates specifically how the responses developed to combat one type of financial crime can productively be employed in fighting the other.
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This book investigates the roots of ethnic separatism in the Russian Federation and post-Soviet Georgia. It considers why regional leaders in both countries chose violent or non-violent strategies to achieve their political, economic, and personal goals.
About the Author
David Chaikin is a practicing attorney and senior lecturer in business law in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney . He was previously Head of the International Criminal Law Enforcement and Security Branch in the Australian Attorney-Generals Department and Senior Fraud Officer of the Commonwealth. Chaikin spent seven years assisting the Philippine Government in tracking and recovering the illicit assets of Ferdinand Marcos.
J.C. Sharman is Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia researching the politics of offshore finance. Sharmans earlier publications include Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation (Cornell University Press 2006) and Considering the Consequences: The Development Impact of Initiatives on Taxation, Anti-Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism (Commonwealth 2008, with Percy S. Mistry).
Table of Contents
Introduction * 1: The Corruption-Money Laundering Nexus * 2: International Responses to Corruption and Money Laundering * 3: Points of Vulnerability * 4: Senior Public Officials and Politically Exposed Persons * 5: Best Practice for International Co-operation * 6: The Marcos Kleptocracy * Conclusion: Solutions and Prospects for the Corruption-Money Laundering Nexus * Bibliography