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The Illegal Sector, Money Laundering and the Legal Economy: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Donato MasciandaroThis paper presents a macroeconomic framework useful to the analysis of the relationships between the illegal sector, money laundering and the legal economy from a human as well…
Bank Secrecy
Bank secrecy and how it facilitates multiple opportunities for money laundering and various other criminal activities are matters in which governments must be interested. These…
The Impact of UK Money‐Laundering Legislation on Fiscal Crime
John RhodesThe author's attention was first drawn to this subject by one paragraph in the Money Laundering Steering Group guidelines issued by BBA in June 1997:
The Struggle Against Corruption — A Comparative Analysis
Andrew HaynesThe struggle against corruption is not an area where any state has had a sufficiently high success rate to become complacent, particularly when bearing in mind the evidence of the…
Taxing the Proceeds of Crime
R.E. BellOrganised crime groups, in particular drug traffickers, generate considerable amounts of money from their criminal activities. Over the last two decades jurisdictions around the…
Shaming International Financial Centres
Peter D. MaynardWith the advent of the FATF blacklist and the US FinCen advisories, the problem of perception and reality has been exacerbated. The international financial centres (IFCs) claim…
Liability in Defamation and Negligence Following Breach of Bank Secrecy
Paul LatimerLaws regulating securities markets such as the Securities and Exchange Commission laws in the USA, the Financial Services and Markets Act 1999 (UK), the Australian Corporations…
Australia: Reform of Criminal Trial Procedure — The Limits of the Right to Silence
G.L. DaviesThe report of the Working Group on Criminal Trial Procedure did not discuss the right to silence in any detail or arrive at any conclusion about it. There were, it appears, two…
Australia: Working Within the Law — The Attitudes of Reporting Officers to the Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988
Jackie JohnsonThe laundering of money appears to have reached almost epidemic proportions, due primarily to the increase in profit from the sale of illegal drugs; the growth of organised crime…
Nigeria: Confiscation of the Proceeds of Corruption
T.O. Olaleye‐OrueneThe eradication of corruption is feasible only through the confiscation of the proceeds of corruption. This could be achieved through the joint efforts of national governments…
Singapore: New Insider Trading Legislation
Ravi ChandranHitherto, perhaps the most striking gap in Singapore's insider trading legislation has been the lack of effective civil remedies for insider trading. This and several other issues…
South Africa: Constitutionally Challenging the Companies Act — the Coming Millennium
J.J. Henning, Sandra du ToitIn the coming millennium, the challenges facing South African company law will be significant. They will be divergent in nature, ranging from effecting a seamless match between…
South Africa: Money Laundering — The Duty to Report under the Law
A. ItzikowitzMoney laundering in South Africa received legislative attention as recently as 1992. The advances in technology and particularly electronic funds transfers brought a dramatic…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Li Hong Xing
- Prof Barry Rider