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117: Patrick Alley | Blood Diamonds, Kleptocrats, Very Bad People & The Investigations Of Global Witness

Curious Worldview Podcast

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The Role of Banks in Offshore Finance

Every corrupt deal always uses some secretly owned company registered in the tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions of, well, it could be the UK or US. And there at the root of virtually every problem we've ever looked at. With computer power these days, it's still hard, and something quite often impossible to get through that. We literally had to search company databases in different countries and look for similarities. If you don't know who owns a company, how do you know it’s linked to another company in the network? Also, how long did they exist? These companies may be set up to do particular thing but then shut down two years later. They have gone dark so by the

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