John Christensen ■ Barclays: Behave!

Barclays: Behave!

John Christensen

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13 March 2014

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Inequality and human rights ↘ Tax havens ↘

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Barclays bank has a long and not entirely honourable track record of involvement in Africa. This blogger spent many wearisome days in the late 1970s protesting Barclays’ support for apartheid South Africa.

They’re still at it; promoting tax havens to clients in Africa and lobbying for various African states to host tax havenry. This paper, written several years ago, talks about Barclays’ lobbying in Ghana. More recently we’ve had concerns about Kenya emerging as a regional hot-spot for dirty money. Now our colleagues at Action Aid are putting pressure on Barclays to clean up their act and stop promoting tax havens in Africa.

Action Aid have produced this video. Watch and take action.

This is an excellent moment to put pressure on Barclays to clean up its act. Supporting Action Aid’s campaign will not only put pressure on Barclays: it will send a powerful message to the rest of the banking industry that we no longer tolerate their dirty business.

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John Christensen

Trained as a forensic auditor and economist, John has worked in many countries around the world, including a period of working in offshore financial services with Touche Ross & Co. For 11 years he was economic adviser to the government of the British Channel Island of Jersey.In 2003 he became what the Guardian has described as “the unlikely figurehead of a worldwide campaign against tax avoidance.” His research on offshore finance has been widely published in books and academic journals, and John has taken part in many films, television documentaries and radio programmes.John can be contacted on +44 (0) 7979 868302.

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