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Dec. 16, 2020

The era of anonymous companies in the US is nearly over

The US is clamping down on the getaway cars for the world’s criminal and corrupt. Unmasking anonymous companies in the US has been over a decade in the making.
Dominic Kavakeb / Dec. 16, 2019

Murder, misinformation and money-laundering: Weapons in the arsenal of the Russian state

Summary of a event hosted by Global Witness on Russian influence in the UK
Alexandria Robins / Dec. 5, 2019

The US just reached this anti-money laundering milestone

For the first time, a bill to effectively end anonymous shell companies in the US has made its way out of a chamber of Congress.
Dominic Kavakeb / July 18, 2019

Who lives in a home like this? We might soon find out……

The UK moves one step closer on the slow path to property market transparency
Nienke Palstra / May 6, 2019

UK Government’s ‘no-questions-asked’ approach to companies gives money launderers a free pass

One year since our biggest-ever analysis of the UK company register, we did it again and found thousands of companies can still avoid revealing their real owners or have money laundering risks associated with them
Naomi Hirst / Dec. 4, 2018

Cleaning up closer to home – why the Crown Dependencies need to go public

Ministers from the Overseas Territories will be meeting with the Foreign Office to discuss the creation of public registers of the real owners of anonymous companies.
Sam Leon & Ava Lee / Aug. 3, 2018

How we mined the world’s first open data register of company control

Last week we published the findings from our in-depth analysis of the world’s first open register of who controls companies. The Companies We Keep shows that two-years on the UK register of beneficial owners is having an important impact
Nienke Palstra / July 24, 2018

Three ways the UK’s register of the real owners of companies is already proving its worth

Two years after the UK first set up its register of the real owners behind companies, we’ve just published the most comprehensive analysis of the data to date. We point out where it is already reaping rewards and showing some exciting results.
Murray Worthy / April 29, 2018

Missing the bigger picture? Russian money in the UK's tax havens

According to new Global Witness analysis more than 7 times more money has flowed from Russia to the Overseas Territories than has gone to the UK over the last ten years.
Charmian Gooch / Feb. 20, 2018

The time has come to address the issue of the UK overseas territories

What three characteristics unite luxury London property linked to the daughter of a former Uzbek President, the secret payment of money intended for state coffers in the Congo to a controversial Israeli billionaire, and a multi-billion dollar fund that siphoned money out of Malaysia’s treasury and into blockbuster films, Picassos, and super-yachts?

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