The Dark Money Files
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The Dark Money Files is the innovative podcast on money laundering and wider financial crime issues presented by Graham Barrow and Ray Blake, two financial crime fighters with considerable experience in helping banks, regulators, tech providers, NGOs and other organisations grapple with criminal abuse of the financial system.
The Dark Money Files
5d ago
Taking a slightly different direction from our normal content, we step back and look how the landscape of crime has changed over the years, and how in the process it has become democratised.
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The Dark Money Files
1M ago
Following the news that nearly 800 restaurants in the UK have been cloned over the last few weeks, we thought we’d bring you the story behind the story.
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The Dark Money Files
1M ago
It’s over to EU
After a succession of episodes looking at the UK financial crime landscape, we shift our focus over the channel to Europe and the proposed changes to EU AML legislation.
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The Dark Money Files
2M ago
Following some recent banking shenanigans, there’s been a rapidly introduced change in the UK law relating to PEPs.
We think it needs to be put into a global context.
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The Dark Money Files
4M ago
Following the enactment of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, reform is on the way to Companies House.
But what does it look like and when will it happen?
Here's our initial overview.
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The Dark Money Files
5M ago
In this episode we walk the path from certainty to impossibility, via probable, possible and plausible.
A conversation involving wind turbines, zebras and UFOs.
You need to listen to understand!
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The Dark Money Files
6M ago
In this second episode devoted to ultimate beneficial ownership, we delve into the world of exchange traded companies and the esoterica that is trusts.
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The Dark Money Files
7M ago
In this episode we, somewhat belatedly, begin to tackle the thorny issue of identifying ultimate beneficial ownership.
And we do so by pointing out that the “ownership” part of UBO is a bit misleading because it doesn’t cover control or influence.
But then a UBOCI is a bit of a mouthful.
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The Dark Money Files
7M ago
In this episode we walk through a recent, in-depth report into probable VAT and employment tax fraud reported on by Dan Neidle of the Tax Policy Associates, in partiucalr, how various different proessionals, individuals both here and abroad, and social media websites can be used, wittingly or unwittingly, to further the fraudsters aims.
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The Dark Money Files
8M ago
We couldn't let the recent Farage brouhaha with Coutts go by without some sort of comment.
We've tried to chart a calm course through some choppy waters!
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