Controlled transparency is the way ahead for UBO registers
A system of controlled transparency is far more effective as a tool for battling corruption than a completely unlimited system of transparency.
When ideology overtakes experience in the battle to curb corruption offshore
A response to Transparency International and Laure Brillaud’s criticism of Martin Kenney’s recent EU Observer piece about the flaws in public UBO registers.
Is the UAE a safe haven for international fraudsters?
Martin Kenney asks: Is the UAE a safe haven for international fraudsters?
Hear me out, please. Public UBO registers won’t work in 2019
Looking forward to 2019, Martin Kenney says campaigners hold a very firm assumption that public UBO registers are fundamental for transparency. “I will continue to tell them that they are incorrect,” he says.
Premier League allegations show ‘farce’ of UBO register
A Scottish newspaper asserts that Alisher Usmanov, an Uzbek-born Russian billionaire who was a major shareholder in the Premier League football club, Arsenal , may be behind a Scottish entity that appears to be funnelling funds to and from Uzbekistan.