November 2, 2020
By Sue Ryu In resource rich, commodity-dependent developing nations such as Chile, the issue of trade misinvoicing is not only highly prevalent, but of great negative consequence for public welfare. Chile ranks on the higher end of...
October 29, 2020
BY NELSON LEONOR Central American ports have long been vulnerable to organized crime and narcotics trafficking, and despite billions of dollars spent attempting to combat the drug trade, a number of recent cases from Guatemala and Honduras...
September 2, 2020
By Helene Church GFI’s 2011 annual report titled “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2000–2009” served as evidence in the prosecution of Rifaat al-Assad, brother of the former Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, and uncle of current president...
By Lionel Bassega, September 1, 2020
Trade misinvoicing is a persistent and significant feature of international trade transactions. It is a primary means of illicitly shifting funds in and out of a country. It occurs when importers and exporters deliberately falsify the prices,...
August 21, 2020
This piece is part of a series to highlight the voices and work of women in the transparency field, as part of Global Financial Integrity’s work coordinating the Women in Transparency Network. This interview features Isabelle Kermeen,...
By Lakshmi Kumar, August 5, 2020
Global Financial Integrity (GFI) was proud to contribute to the July 2020 report ‘Dubai’s Role in Facilitating Corruption and Global Illicit Financial Flows’ from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The contribution, Chapter 3 of the report,...
August 4, 2020
By Brian Monroe, VP – Content Development, Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists This piece was originally published on July 6th, 2020 by the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists and is reposted with permission. When it...
July 28, 2020
By Andrew Peters In March 2020, Global Financial Integrity (GFI) estimated a lower bound of US$8.7 trillion in value gaps identified in trade between 135 developing countries and 36 advanced economies over the ten-year period 2008-2017. This...