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This last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five years EU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime. How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve governance in the countries that it assists? Using the new index of public integrity and a variety of other tools created in the project this issue looks at how EU funds and norms affected old member states (like Spain), new member states (Slovakia, Romania), accession countries (Turkey) and the countries recipient of development funds (Egypt, Tanzania, Tunisia). The data covers over a decade of structural and development funds, and the findings show the challenges to changing governance across borders, the different paths that each country has experienced and suggest avenues of reforming development aid for improving governance.

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction -- 1 Money Laundering Through Real Estate -- 1.1 The Nguema Obiang Cases -- 1.2 New York Real Estate -- Bibliography -- 2 Money Laundering Through Agribusiness -- Bibliography -- 3 Money Laundering Typologies Evidenced in the "Panama Papers" -- 3.1 Offshore Companies and Concealing the Beneficial Owner -- 3.1.1 Remittance Companies and Black Market Moneychangers -- 3.1.2 NGOs and Trusts -- Bibliography -- 4 Efforts to Combat Money Laundering -- 4.1 Property Confiscation -- 4.2 International Legal Cooperation -- 4.3 Asset Repatriation -- Bibliography -- 5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6 Proposals to Improve the War Against Money Laundering Through Real Estate and Agribusiness -- 6.1 An International Perspective -- 6.1.1 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) -- 6.1.2 Tax Havens, Offshore Accounts, and Trusts -- 6.1.3 International Legal Cooperation and Repatriation -- 6.2 A National Perspective -- 6.2.1 Freezing, Seizing, Confiscating, and Repatriating Assets -- 6.2.2 Regulatory Agencies -- 6.2.3 Payments, Remittances, and Financial Institutions -- 6.2.4 Offshore Accounts and Trusts -- 6.2.5 NPOs and Foundations -- 6.2.6 Money Laundering Laws: Reports, Rural Activity, and Lawyers -- 6.2.7 Law Enforcement Agencies and Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) -- 6.2.8 Investigating and Prosecuting Tax Fraud -- 6.2.9 Real Estate Brokers and Joint Owners -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Beyond the Panama Papers. The Performance of EU Good Governance Promotion -- Contents -- For a More Effective Link Between EU Funds and Good Governance -- Changing the norm of corruption -- EU aid and good governance promotion -- Types of EU aid -- Distribution of Aid by Country and Region -- The link between governance change and EU aid -- The Direct Evidence and its Puzzles -- Modernisation -- Institutional transfer -- Conclusions and policy options. What canand should the EU do? -- The recommendations that we make to EU therefore are as follows -- Appendix A -- 1. EU Democracy Promotion, Conditionality and Judicial Autonomy -- Introduction -- EU conditionality, direct investment and judicial autonomy -- Data and analysis -- Control variables -- Estimation -- Results -- Leverage -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Spain: Roads to Good Governance? How EU Structural Funds Impact Governance across Regions -- Introduction -- Spain -- Theory and literature -- Analysis of resources and constraints -- Resources for corruption -- The role of restrictions -- References -- 3. Slovakia: The Impact of EU Good Governance Aid 2007-2013 -- Slovakia's governance regime -- The role of EU -- Results and discussion -- References -- 4. Romania: Europeanisation of Good Governance. Where and why does it fail, and what can bedone about it? -- What is good governance? -- Where does the Europeanisation of good governance fail? -- Substantive legality: Considerable improvement -- Formal legality: Pathological development -- Capacity: Considerable progress -- Impartiality: Only judicial independence, the rest of the state lags behind -- Coherence: Towards increased fragmentation -- Efficiency-effectiveness: Selective progress within broad stagnation -- What prevents Europeanisation of governance? -- The problem of valuing quantity over quality.

This last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five yearsEU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime.How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve governancein the countries that it assists? Using the new index of public integrity and avariety of other tools created in the project this issue looks at how EU funds andnorms affected old member states (like Spain), new member states (Slovakia,Romania), accession countries (Turkey) and the countries recipient of developmentfunds (Egypt, Tanzania, Tunisia). The data covers over a decade of structuraland development funds, and the findings show the challenges to changing governanceacross borders, the different paths that each country has experiencedand suggest avenues of reforming development aid for improving governance.

"Each year local and national economies throughout the world lose billions of dollars through so-called illicit financial flows. Conservative estimates indicate that over a billion dollars are diverted illegitimately out of countries in the Southern Hemisphere every year. This diversion of revenue reinforces poverty while facilitating the concentration of authority in the hands a select few through corruption and abuse of power. The authors' objective with this book is to increase transparency in finance and global financial transactions.

Understanding the phenomenon of illicit financial flows requires input from several disciplines including law, finance and economics, and much of what is known about illicit financial flows is thanks to whistleblowers and investigative journalists. This anthology highlights journalism about illicit, global financial activity from an interdisciplinary perspective. In conveying the experiences of whistleblowers and investigative journalists who have been involved with the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks and Swiss Leaks, the contributing authors underscore the need for journalism students to also learn the basics of economics, finance and law if they are to be able to carry out investigative projects in an increasingly more globalized economy.

In the first part of the book, investigative journalists describe their work to expose corruption and capital flight, and whistleblowers in some of the most significant cases tell their stories, while lawyers and accountants explain what needs to be done at the legislative level. In the second half of the book, analyses of revelations of corruption and illegitimate financial flows are presented. The authors explore themes including the value of investigative journalism, new journalistic methods, inadequate protections for whistleblowers and the education of investigative journalists.

This book will be of interest to anyone concerned about illicit financial flows, but especially to journalists, journalism students and journalism instructors seeking an understanding of what it takes to reveal the mechanisms behind illicit, global flows of wealth." - Hvert år tappes lokalsamfunn og stater over hele verden for milliarder av kroner på grunn av såkalt illegitim finansflyt. Forsiktige anslag indikerer at 10 milliarder kroner blir ført illegitimt ut av land i Sør hvert år. Skjulte finansstrømmer forsterker fattigdom samtidig som det legger til rette for at noen få holder seg ved makten gjennom korrupsjon og maktmisbruk. Forfatterne av denne boka ønsker å bidra til mer åpenhet om finans og globale finanstransaksjoner.

For å forstå fenomenet illegetim finansflyt er det nødvendig med innspill fra flere fagfelt, som jus, finans og økonomi. Mye av det vi vet om skjulte finansstrømmer, vet vi takket være varslere og gravende journalister. Denne boka kaster lys over journalistikk om skjulte, globale finansstrømmer fra ulike fagdisiplinære perspektiv. Gjennom å lære av historiene til varslere og gravende journalister som har arbeidet med blant annet Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Lux Leaks og Swiss Leaks, viser forfatterne at journaliststudenter bør lære mer om både økonomi, finans og jus dersom de skal kunne gjennomføre graveprosjekter i en stadig mer global økonomi.

I første del av boka forteller gravende journalister om arbeidet for å avsløre korrupsjon og finansflukt. Varslere i noen av de mest kjente sakene forteller sin historie, mens advokater og revisorer forklarer hva som må gjøres med lovverket. Den andre delen av boka består av analyser av korrupsjonsavsløringer og illegitim finansflyt. Forfatterne belyser tema som verdien av gravejournalistikk, nye journalistiske metoder, mangelfull beskyttelse av varslere og utdanning av gravejournalister.

Denne boka passer for alle som er interesserte i illegitim finansflyt, men passer spesielt for journalister, journaliststudenter og journalistikklærere som ønsker å forstå hva som trengs for å avdekke mekanismene i skjulte, globale finansstrømmer.