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Experts have criticised inadequate legislation, failures by the National Crime Agency, and “flawed” legal judgements which led to the dismissal of a high-profile case against the relatives of Kazakhstan’s autocratic…

As a social scientist, Dr. Jacqueline Klopp’s work involves exploring how to change policy and encourage action to reduce air pollution, address climate change, get improved public transport and land-use,…

The connections between Eurasian kleptocrats and the UK political system, its finance sector, its charities, its libel laws, its property market, and its luxury goods sector, is rigorously explored in…

The Times Higher Education reports on a higher education bill amendment to make universities publish their foreign donations. “MP’s draft transparency law comes after failure to self-regulate against threats such…

Private Eye no1564 7-1-22 Media follow-up from the University of Exeter GI-ACE research team’s report and conference at Chatham House.

The west has limited influence, but is not without leverage. Large sums of Kazakh money are sequestered in London (where “British professional service providers enable post-Soviet elites to launder their…

Tom Mayne is quoted in the Polish newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. He shares insights on Britain’s contribution to global corruption: “US President Joe Biden made the fight against “dark cash”…

SACPLAN Newsletter 8 FINAL

“We’re being asked in the U.K. to adjudicate on political dynamics that English courts don’t fully understand,” said Tom Mayne, a researcher at Exeter University, who focuses on how English…

John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter discusses the working paper he co-authored for the National Endowment for Democracy: “Paying for a World Class Affiliation: Reputation Laundering in the University…