April 22nd, 2010
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Citizens-United, Congress is working to craft tough finance disclosure laws to force corporations to disclose their political spending.
The New York Times says,
WASHINGTON — The White House and leading Democrats in Congress are close to proposing legislation that would force private companies and groups to disclose their behind-the-scenes financial involvement in political campaigns and advertising, officials involved in the discussions said Monday.
One provision would require the chief executive of any company or group that is the main backer of a campaign advertisement to personally appear in television and radio spots to acknowledge...
April 22nd, 2010
European Commission to help developing nations fight tax evasion
Business Day (South Africa), April 21, 2010
Ghana, Others Lose $1 Trillion
Business Guide (Ghana), April 19, 2010
Egypt to charge Brotherhood leaders with money laundering
Bikya Masr (Egypt), April 22, 2010
Egypt court 'to try Islamists for money laundering'
AFP, April 21, 2010
NY man sentenced in terrorism financing case
The Associated Press, April 20, 2010
Democrats Push to Require Campaign Disclosure
The New York Times, April 12, 2010
Swiss Court Limits UBS Clients Who Can Block Tax Data Transfers
Bloomberg...
April 21st, 2010
The New York Observer published today
an intriguing article on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $1.8 billion Bloomberg Family Foundation. The article states:
By the end of 2008, the Bloomberg Family Foundation had transferred almost $300 million into various offshore destinations—some of them notorious tax-dodge hideouts. The Caymans and Cyprus. Bermuda and Brazil. Even Mauritius, a speck of an island in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Madagascar. Other investments were spread around disparate locations, from Japan to Luxembourg to Romania.
Why was the mayor’s flagship foundation sending hundreds of...
April 21st, 2010
R175bn syphoned away
The Times (South Africa), April 20, 2010
Bloomberg's Offshore Millions
The New York Observer, April 20, 2010
IRS Targets Taxpayers Hiding Income in Offshore Accounts
Fox News, April 21, 2010
I-T probes if Shilpa & hubby's RR stake came via tax haven
The Economic Times, April 21, 2010
The Long Arm of Justice
The Huffington Post, April 13, 2010
Corruption fuelling terrorism in Indonesia: think tank
AFP, April 20, 2010
HP reveals SEC corruption probe over 'small' projects
BBC News, April 21, 2010
Foreign firms...
