Global Shell Games: Criminal Money and Untraceable Shell Companies

By Jason Sharman, Griffith University, Australia
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Shell companies that cannot be traced back to their real owners are one of the most common means for laundering dirty money, giving and receiving bribes, busting sanctions, and evading taxes. This lecture presents the results of an experiment based on soliciting offers for these prohibited anonymous shell corporations. The results reveal major problems: many firms are willing to do business with criminals, but it is not the usual suspects that are the problem.

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