Financial Transparency Coalition

PRESS RELEASE The Scottish Government today introduced ground-breaking new measures to bring land ownership into the open, in a move strongly welcomed by Global Witness. These efforts will make it much easier for people in Scotland to know who is really behind ownership of land and hold those people to account. 

The U.S. Treasury Department today announced it will require people purchasing high end real estate in New York and Miami to disclose who they really are. Global Witness strongly welcomes this move, which will help stop the criminal and corrupt from hiding behind anonymously owned shell companies to launder the proceeds of crime through the

He bought the company, exerted influence, and dictated events to be covered, and he did it all anonymously. Just two weeks ago, all we knew was that a company called NEWS + MEDIA GROUP, LLC purchased The Las Vegas Review Journal, Nevada’s largest daily newspaper. It was reported that an executive from NEWS + MEDIA GROUP told journalists that

Across the EU, governments are currently in the process of implementing the newly adopted reforms to the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive. The FTC is following the process closely, and is especially interested in developments at the national level regarding beneficial ownership transparency. Each EU member state will set up a centralized register with information related