Selected Articles

Can Johnson & Johnson Just Dump Its Racist, Cancer-Causing Baby Powder Biz? - Daily Beast 02.11.21 260262
J&J is using a bankruptcy maneuver to block lawsuits over baby powder cancer claims - NPR 21.10.21 260264
Forming an Anonymous Company Can Be Easier Than Getting a Library Card - NYT 04/16 151733
GFI Welcomes Introduction of Bills to Expose Anonymous Shell Companies - GFI 02/16 151734
Putting a Stop to Shell Companies, in Two Steps - NY Times 2/15 151738
Towers of Secrecy Article Series: Stream of Foreign Wealth Flows to Elite New York Real Estate - NYT 02/15 151739
Are Anonymous Companies a 'Getaway Vehicle for Corruption'? - Huffington Post 01/15 151742
Mo Ibrahim: Ending Anonymous Companies is Best for Business - B Team 01/15 151747
Setting Up a Bogus Shell Corporation Is Really Easy - Vice 12/14 151748
The Law Firm That Works with Oligarchs, Money Launderers, and Dictators - Vice 12/14 151751
EU cracks down on anonymous company ownership, but falls short of full transparency - Global Witness 12/14 151752
Cracking the shells: New rules in the European Union take aim at corporate secrecy - Economist 12/14 151756
G20 takes aim at anonymous companies - FT 11/14 151757
Open letter to the G20: exposing the corporate shell game is good for business – and the world - Guardian 11/14 151761
56 Reasons Anonymous Company Ownership Is the Biggest Problem You've Never Heard Of - Huffington Post 10/14 151762
Global Witness: anonymous companies and the threat to the U.S. - TJN 09/14 151766
Business Works Alongside Civil Society To End Anonymous Companies - B Team 09/14 151767
Shell games: Investigating shell companies and understanding their roles in international fraud - Fraud Magazine 09/14 151770
Sun and Shadows: How an Island Paradise Became a Haven for Dirty Money - ICIJ 06/14 151771
Anonymous Shell Companies Are Part of the Problem, Too: Often Used to Inject Dark Money Into Campaigns - TruthOut 06/14 151774
Delaware To Remain U.S. “Shell Corporation” Capital - Mint Press 06/14 151775
'I want to end anonymous companies' - Guardian 04/14 151778
Corruption-busting Global Witness wins $1m TED Prize - Wired 03/14 151783
By abolishing anonymous companies, we can prevent exploitation - Globe & Mail 03/14 151784
Corporate 'Engine of Corruption' Destroying Global 'Public Good', says TED Prize Winner - Common Dreams 04/13 151788
Anonymous companies and beneficial ownership – progress for sure, but panacea? - Star 24.05.14 151789
European Parliament votes to end anonymous shell companies - Global Witness 02/14 151791
Campaigners give onshore and offshore secrecy jurisdictions the red light - Global Witness 11/13 151792
Europe’s ‘phantom’ companies are helping criminals - EurActiv 11/13 151797
Global Witness welcomes UK’s historic rollback of corporate secrecy - Global Witness 10/13 151801
Secret owners of 'shell' companies to be made public - BBC 10/13 151802
British plan to unmask shell companies puts pressure on US - CNBC 10/13 151806
A Look Behind the Shell Corporations - Open Society 10/13 151807
Kenya the easiest place to set up a shell company - East African 09/13 151811
The Global Shell Game - Daily Maverick 07/13 151812
Senate moves to end anonymous shell companies to crack down on money laundering, tax dodging and corruption - Global Witness 08/13 151816
The beginning of the end of corporate secrecy? G8 strikes a blow against corruption – but still more to do - Global Witness 06/13 151817
Requiring beneficial ownership information to be put in the public domain is cheap: Cost of Beneficial Ownership Declaration Report - Global Witness 05/13 151820
Tax Havens: Owners of Anonymous Companies Exposed - Daily Kos 04/13 151821
Taxmen Have Little Clue of Offshore Companies Owned by Greeks - ICIJ 04/13 151824
Why UN arms negotiations must include talk of ending corporate secrecy - Al Jazeera 03/13 151825
Mystery shopping exercise shows how easy it is to set up anonymous companies in the U.S. and UK - Global Witness 10/12 151828
Launderers Anonymous A study highlights how easy it is to set up untraceable companies - Economist 09/12 151833
Special Report: Phantom firms bleed millions from Medicare - Reuters 12/11 151838
Grand schemes: A World Bank report blasts the abuse of company registration for corrupt ends - Economist 10/11 151843
Inside the shell: Drugs, arms and tax scams - ICIJ 06/11 151844
Shell companies: quick, cheap, anonymous - SCMP 02/11 151848
Shell Games - Forbes 01/07 151849