Section: Kleptocracy Initiative (USA)
Kleptocracy Daily: November 8, 2016
News Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran have all used the turbulent U.S. presidential election to attack democracy. (FT) Estonia’s pro-Western government is on the verge of collapse. (NYT) China is establishing a new anti-corruption body to consolidate existing state agencies. (SCMP) Wang Qishan, Beijing’s top anti-graft official, published...
Kleptocracy Daily: November 7, 2016
News Mikheil Saakashvili resigned as governor of Odessa, citing corruption and insufficient political backing for reforms. (Guardian) A pro-Kremlin candidate won the first round of Bulgaria’s presidential election. (Reuters) Russian nationalists were allegedly behind a plot to assassinate the pro-Western prime minister of Montenegro. (BBC)...
Kleptocracy Daily: November 4, 2016
New from KI Introducing KleptoCasts, KI’s new podcast series. This week, listen to Ben Judah discuss Ukraine’s new asset declaration law with Daria Kaleniuk, Executive Director of the Anticorruption Center. KI’s Natalie Duffy looks at the new law, what Ukrainians think of it, and what the West can do to support reform. News U.S....
Luxuries and Loopholes: Ukraine’s New Asset Declaration Law
Photo: Perohanych/CC-BY-SA 4.0 KleptoCast: Ben Judah discusses Ukraine’s new asset and income declaration laws with Daria Kaleniuk, Executive Director of the Anticorruption Action Center in Kyiv. http://kleptocracyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Ukraines-Asset-Declaration-Law-with-Ben-Judah-Daria-Kaleniuk-KleptoCast-1-11_04_16.m4a...
Kleptocracy Daily: November 3, 2016
News Wanted: Western PR firms to polish the Kremlin’s image overseas, for fees of $30-50 million. (PR Week) After being designated a “core” leader at the CCP’s recent plenum, Xi Jinping has lambasted “conspiracies” and corruption among Chinese elites. (Bloomberg) Citing financial mismanagement, Vladimir Putin threatened to cut funding...
Kleptocracy Daily: November 2, 2016
News A backlog of cases in Hong Kong has caused a dramatic upsurge in money laundering and terrorist financing reports. (SCMP) A senior Scottish politician has called for a review of Scottish Limited Partnerships, which he says are being used as a front for international organized crime. (Herald Scotland) The Kremlin will set in train the sale of...
Kleptocracy Daily: November 1, 2016
News Alfa Bank, a Russian lender with alleged Kremlin links, and the Trump Organization denied email contact using a secret server. (Slate) Ukraine says it will investigate officials who appear to be worth more than $100,000 under the new e-declaration system. (Reuters) Australia and China signed a money laundering information sharing agreement....
Kleptocracy Daily: October 31, 2016
News The deadline for Ukrainian officials to reveal their assets and income through a new e-declaration system has passed, revealing vast wealth in many cases. (Reuters) Deutsche Bank may settle with authorities over a Russian “mirror trading” scheme in early 2017. (Reuters) Moldova’s banking scandal is casting a shadow over its...
Kleptocracy Weekly: October 22-28, 2016
Russia Hackers published emails obtained from Vladimir Putin’s advisor, Vladislav Surkov, which detail Russian plans to destabilize Ukraine. (FP) Kremlin infighting may be the cause of other recent embarrassing leaks about Putin’s inner circle, and Alexey Navalny is a beneficiary. (Bloomberg) U.S. authorities ruled that the death of...
Kleptocracy Daily: October 28, 2016
News U.S. authorities ruled that the death of Mikhail Lesin in Washington, DC was an accident. (RFE/RL) Ukrainian politicians and officials are beginning to publish their asset and income declarations ahead of Sunday’s deadline. First up: PM Volodymyr Grosman, with $1.8 million in cash. (BBC) Chinese officials have hit back at suggestions...
