
Nick Shaxson ■ Anonymous company ownership, in a picture

This is from a new Global Witness report entitled “The shell starts to crack? Real owners of Myanmar’s oil and gas blocks come forward.”
We like this picture because it shows, simply, how issues that are at the heart of TJN’s work are so multi-faceted. Illegal logging in Asia connects with the foreclosure mess in the U.S., to blood diamonds and tax evasion.
And let’s not forget that these are merely the top edited highlights from a much bigger picture.
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