Nick Shaxson ■ New report: how corrupt capital is used to buy property in the UK
From Transparency International, a landmark study looking at the role the UK’s real estate sector has played in laundering the world’s money. We don’t have time to do this justice, but the world’s media has done a good job covering it.
Unmask the Corrupt: How UK Property Launders the Wealth of the Global Corrupt.
Also see this recent excellent New York Times series looking at dirty money in New York real estate, and an earlier Vanity Fair article, written by a TJN author, about an expensive apartment block in London.
Related articles
Stolen Futures: Our new report on tax justice and the Right to Education
Stolen futures: the impacts of tax injustice on the Right to Education
31 October 2024
CERD submission: Racialised impacts of UK’s ‘second empire’
UN submission sets out racist impacts of UK’s ‘second empire’
Infographic: The extreme wealth of the superrich is making our economies insecure
Wiki: How to tax the superrich (with pictures)
Taxing extreme wealth: what countries around the world could gain from progressive wealth taxes
19 August 2024