uk Scottish police confirm requests from world governments to find money laundered through "the UK's homegrown secrecy vehicle" Cory Doctorow
russia Scotland is still a financial secrecy exporter, laundering billions for Russia's crime-bosses and oligarchs Cory Doctorow
uk Anatomy of how crooks use financial secrecy in the UK and New Zealand to rip off international investors with impunity Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Treasure Islands: EU publishes a blacklist of 17 tax-havens and a long-list of runner-up tax avoidance jurisdictions Cory Doctorow
corruption Leaked documents expose links between Trump’s commerce secretary and Putin’s son-in-law Mark Frauenfelder
Copyfight Pharma giant Allergan pays Mohawk tribe to serve as human shields against patent challenges Cory Doctorow
Business Chinese government sources tell the WSJ they're about to shut down all domestic Bitcoin exchanges Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Donald Trump and Eric Trump defrauded donors to kids' cancer charities Cory Doctorow
corruption The IRS deliberately targeted innocents for civil forfeiture program that stole millions from Americans Cory Doctorow
china More anti-money laundering measures hit China as top three Bitcoin exchanges freeze withdrawals Cory Doctorow
china China's capital controls are working, and that's bursting the global real-estate bubble Cory Doctorow
class war 98% of Bitcoin trading volume over the past six months was in Chinese Renminbi Cory Doctorow
canada July: Vancouver imposes a 15% tax on foreign real estate speculators; September: home sales drop by a third Cory Doctorow