Centre for the Study of Corruption (CSC)
@sussexscsc.bsky.social
The UK's first academic centre dedicated to interdisciplinary research and teaching on corruption (Univesity of Sussex)
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🚨New CSC blog: Prof. Dan Hough examines FIFA’s decision allowing Cristiano Ronaldo to play in all 2026 World Cup matches after his red card, and what this shows about disciplinary processes in football governance.
🔗Read more: bit.ly/4oy6tQR
🔗Read more: bit.ly/4oy6tQR
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🚨New CSC blog: Prof. Dan Hough examines FIFA’s decision allowing Cristiano Ronaldo to play in all 2026 World Cup matches after his red card, and what this shows about disciplinary processes in football governance.
🔗Read more: bit.ly/4oy6tQR
🔗Read more: bit.ly/4oy6tQR
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Earlier this week we launched our 2nd paper looking at the Kenyan real estate sector. Our newest blog dives into how the real estate process works, where it could take action to prevent illicit finance and what are some of the challenges in doing so: cifar.eu/how-does-the...
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Earlier this week we launched our 2nd paper looking at the Kenyan real estate sector. Our newest blog dives into how the real estate process works, where it could take action to prevent illicit finance and what are some of the challenges in doing so: cifar.eu/how-does-the...
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📢Out today! The 2nd of our reports into money laundering & real estate in Kenya. This report describes in detail the key actors current to 2025 that operate to prevent money laundering in the real estate sector. Read more: cifar.eu/kenyas-real-...
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
📢Out today! The 2nd of our reports into money laundering & real estate in Kenya. This report describes in detail the key actors current to 2025 that operate to prevent money laundering in the real estate sector. Read more: cifar.eu/kenyas-real-...
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Professional enablers often work behind the scenes—but their influence can drive corruption and state capture. Join our GI ACE roundtable with @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social, @devipillay.co.za, Alex Cooley, @jheathershaw.bsky.social, Corentin Cohen and @tenaprelec.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/GIACERoundtable
🔗 bit.ly/GIACERoundtable
Consultants, capture, and kleptocrats: how professional service providers enable corruption
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November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Professional enablers often work behind the scenes—but their influence can drive corruption and state capture. Join our GI ACE roundtable with @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social, @devipillay.co.za, Alex Cooley, @jheathershaw.bsky.social, Corentin Cohen and @tenaprelec.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/GIACERoundtable
🔗 bit.ly/GIACERoundtable
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Happening today at 1-2 PM UK time!
Register here: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
Register here: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
Join the next #GIACESeminar:
Corruption in Paradise: Real Estate Money Laundering in Emerging Markets
📅 Nov 13 | 🕐 1–2 PM UK
🔗 Register: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
This seminar explores what weak enforcement means for housing markets & why global AML rules fall short.
Corruption in Paradise: Real Estate Money Laundering in Emerging Markets
📅 Nov 13 | 🕐 1–2 PM UK
🔗 Register: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
This seminar explores what weak enforcement means for housing markets & why global AML rules fall short.
Corruption in Paradise: Real Estate Money Laundering in Emerging Markets
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November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Happening today at 1-2 PM UK time!
Register here: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
Register here: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
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🚨The Nov GI ACE Newsletter is out!
From real estate money laundering to sanctions evasion & a new blog on anti-money-laundering in the Global South — explore the latest from the GI ACE network.
🔗Read: bit.ly/GIACENewsletter_7
🔗SUB: bit.ly/NewsletterSUB
From real estate money laundering to sanctions evasion & a new blog on anti-money-laundering in the Global South — explore the latest from the GI ACE network.
🔗Read: bit.ly/GIACENewsletter_7
🔗SUB: bit.ly/NewsletterSUB
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme (Uni. of Sussex)
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme (Uni. of Sussex) Email Forms
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November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🚨The Nov GI ACE Newsletter is out!
From real estate money laundering to sanctions evasion & a new blog on anti-money-laundering in the Global South — explore the latest from the GI ACE network.
🔗Read: bit.ly/GIACENewsletter_7
🔗SUB: bit.ly/NewsletterSUB
From real estate money laundering to sanctions evasion & a new blog on anti-money-laundering in the Global South — explore the latest from the GI ACE network.
🔗Read: bit.ly/GIACENewsletter_7
🔗SUB: bit.ly/NewsletterSUB
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Crises like pandemics, cholera outbreaks & climate disasters don’t just strain health systems — they amplify corruption risks.
New #GIACE blog by Claudia Baez Camargo & @dinabalabanova.bsky.social explores how overlapping emergencies in Malawi opened space for corruption.
🔗 bit.ly/BaselGIACEBlog
New #GIACE blog by Claudia Baez Camargo & @dinabalabanova.bsky.social explores how overlapping emergencies in Malawi opened space for corruption.
🔗 bit.ly/BaselGIACEBlog
Addressing Corruption in Crises Matters: Towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system - Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
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November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Crises like pandemics, cholera outbreaks & climate disasters don’t just strain health systems — they amplify corruption risks.
New #GIACE blog by Claudia Baez Camargo & @dinabalabanova.bsky.social explores how overlapping emergencies in Malawi opened space for corruption.
🔗 bit.ly/BaselGIACEBlog
New #GIACE blog by Claudia Baez Camargo & @dinabalabanova.bsky.social explores how overlapping emergencies in Malawi opened space for corruption.
🔗 bit.ly/BaselGIACEBlog
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Join the next #GIACESeminar:
Corruption in Paradise: Real Estate Money Laundering in Emerging Markets
📅 Nov 13 | 🕐 1–2 PM UK
🔗 Register: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
This seminar explores what weak enforcement means for housing markets & why global AML rules fall short.
Corruption in Paradise: Real Estate Money Laundering in Emerging Markets
📅 Nov 13 | 🕐 1–2 PM UK
🔗 Register: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
This seminar explores what weak enforcement means for housing markets & why global AML rules fall short.
Corruption in Paradise: Real Estate Money Laundering in Emerging Markets
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October 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Join the next #GIACESeminar:
Corruption in Paradise: Real Estate Money Laundering in Emerging Markets
📅 Nov 13 | 🕐 1–2 PM UK
🔗 Register: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
This seminar explores what weak enforcement means for housing markets & why global AML rules fall short.
Corruption in Paradise: Real Estate Money Laundering in Emerging Markets
📅 Nov 13 | 🕐 1–2 PM UK
🔗 Register: bit.ly/GIACEUSISemi...
This seminar explores what weak enforcement means for housing markets & why global AML rules fall short.
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New #GIACE blog by Fanni Gyurko, unpacks how Hungary’s so-called “National Consultations” act as a tool of state capture—using public funds, leading questions & fear-based framing to legitimise government narratives and discredit civil society.
📖 bit.ly/FanniGyurkoB...
📖 bit.ly/FanniGyurkoB...
‘National consultation’ in Hungary as a form of state capture - Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
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October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
New #GIACE blog by Fanni Gyurko, unpacks how Hungary’s so-called “National Consultations” act as a tool of state capture—using public funds, leading questions & fear-based framing to legitimise government narratives and discredit civil society.
📖 bit.ly/FanniGyurkoB...
📖 bit.ly/FanniGyurkoB...
📢 CSC Seminar: From London to “Dubai-Kong” (1980–2024)
🗓 Mon 27 Oct, 12:00–13:00 UK | Online
How US-sanctioned networks shifted from Western hubs to a Dubai–Hong Kong axis.
Speaker: Daniel Haberly | Discussant: Tom Keatinge | Chair:
@csc-barrington.bsky.social
Register Here: bit.ly/CSC2webinar
🗓 Mon 27 Oct, 12:00–13:00 UK | Online
How US-sanctioned networks shifted from Western hubs to a Dubai–Hong Kong axis.
Speaker: Daniel Haberly | Discussant: Tom Keatinge | Chair:
@csc-barrington.bsky.social
Register Here: bit.ly/CSC2webinar
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📢 CSC Seminar: From London to “Dubai-Kong” (1980–2024)
🗓 Mon 27 Oct, 12:00–13:00 UK | Online
How US-sanctioned networks shifted from Western hubs to a Dubai–Hong Kong axis.
Speaker: Daniel Haberly | Discussant: Tom Keatinge | Chair:
@csc-barrington.bsky.social
Register Here: bit.ly/CSC2webinar
🗓 Mon 27 Oct, 12:00–13:00 UK | Online
How US-sanctioned networks shifted from Western hubs to a Dubai–Hong Kong axis.
Speaker: Daniel Haberly | Discussant: Tom Keatinge | Chair:
@csc-barrington.bsky.social
Register Here: bit.ly/CSC2webinar
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📢 Upcoming Webinar: Shadow Economies: Illicit Financial Flows and Sanctions Evasion in the Balkans & Black Sea
📅 30th October 2025 | 🕑 1 PM - 2 PM UK time | 📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/CSDWPLaunch
🔗 Read more about the project here: bit.ly/GIACECSDRese...
📅 30th October 2025 | 🕑 1 PM - 2 PM UK time | 📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/CSDWPLaunch
🔗 Read more about the project here: bit.ly/GIACECSDRese...
Shadow Economies: IFFs & Sanctions Evasion in the Balkans & Black Sea
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October 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
📢 Upcoming Webinar: Shadow Economies: Illicit Financial Flows and Sanctions Evasion in the Balkans & Black Sea
📅 30th October 2025 | 🕑 1 PM - 2 PM UK time | 📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/CSDWPLaunch
🔗 Read more about the project here: bit.ly/GIACECSDRese...
📅 30th October 2025 | 🕑 1 PM - 2 PM UK time | 📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/CSDWPLaunch
🔗 Read more about the project here: bit.ly/GIACECSDRese...
New on the CSC blog: the 4th post in our Tasmania series by @robynlewis.bsky.social & Michael Johnston examines “quiet capture” and outlines reforms - independent ACA, stronger transparency/lobbying oversight, public-service capacity, meaningful participation. Read: bit.ly/Tasmania4
October 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New on the CSC blog: the 4th post in our Tasmania series by @robynlewis.bsky.social & Michael Johnston examines “quiet capture” and outlines reforms - independent ACA, stronger transparency/lobbying oversight, public-service capacity, meaningful participation. Read: bit.ly/Tasmania4
We are delighted to announce the upcoming Research symposium on #BeneficialOwnership #transparency, co-organised with @openownership.bsky.social and the World Bank's Beneficial Ownership Transparency Thematic Working Group.
Read More: bit.ly/oo-wb-csc-symposium
Read More: bit.ly/oo-wb-csc-symposium
October 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We are delighted to announce the upcoming Research symposium on #BeneficialOwnership #transparency, co-organised with @openownership.bsky.social and the World Bank's Beneficial Ownership Transparency Thematic Working Group.
Read More: bit.ly/oo-wb-csc-symposium
Read More: bit.ly/oo-wb-csc-symposium
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This month in GI ACE: new insights on corruption in carbon markets, state capture and legal accountability. Watch, read and listen to the latest research from across the GI ACE network.
🔗Full October newsletter: bit.ly/GIACENewsletter6
🔗Subscribe here: bit.ly/NewsletterSUB
🔗Full October newsletter: bit.ly/GIACENewsletter6
🔗Subscribe here: bit.ly/NewsletterSUB
GI ACE Newsletter: Latest News & Updates
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October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This month in GI ACE: new insights on corruption in carbon markets, state capture and legal accountability. Watch, read and listen to the latest research from across the GI ACE network.
🔗Full October newsletter: bit.ly/GIACENewsletter6
🔗Subscribe here: bit.ly/NewsletterSUB
🔗Full October newsletter: bit.ly/GIACENewsletter6
🔗Subscribe here: bit.ly/NewsletterSUB
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How do consulting giants enable state capture?
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social talks to @devipillay.co.za on McKinsey’s role in South Africa, drawing on the Zondo Commission.
🔗Listen: bit.ly/KBspotify138
🔗Paper: lnkd.in/eczS5NAM
#StateCapture #SouthAfrica #AntiCorruption
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social talks to @devipillay.co.za on McKinsey’s role in South Africa, drawing on the Zondo Commission.
🔗Listen: bit.ly/KBspotify138
🔗Paper: lnkd.in/eczS5NAM
#StateCapture #SouthAfrica #AntiCorruption
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
How do consulting giants enable state capture?
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social talks to @devipillay.co.za on McKinsey’s role in South Africa, drawing on the Zondo Commission.
🔗Listen: bit.ly/KBspotify138
🔗Paper: lnkd.in/eczS5NAM
#StateCapture #SouthAfrica #AntiCorruption
@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social talks to @devipillay.co.za on McKinsey’s role in South Africa, drawing on the Zondo Commission.
🔗Listen: bit.ly/KBspotify138
🔗Paper: lnkd.in/eczS5NAM
#StateCapture #SouthAfrica #AntiCorruption
@devipillay.co.za's paper shows that consulting firms weren't passive participants, they were active facilitators of state capture.
This raises a wider question: how can governments ensure consultants are accountable when their work undermines public institutions?
🔗 Read: bit.ly/consultants-...
This raises a wider question: how can governments ensure consultants are accountable when their work undermines public institutions?
🔗 Read: bit.ly/consultants-...
September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Sussex Spark 2025: Is the UK Politically Corrupt?
Join us at Brighton Dome on 18 Sept for a public debate on the Nolan Principles and standards in public life.
Panel: @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social,Becky Dobson Phillips, @suehawley.bsky.social, @drhannahwhite.bsky.social.
🎟️ Tickets: t.co/eQ90lgoToS
Join us at Brighton Dome on 18 Sept for a public debate on the Nolan Principles and standards in public life.
Panel: @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social,Becky Dobson Phillips, @suehawley.bsky.social, @drhannahwhite.bsky.social.
🎟️ Tickets: t.co/eQ90lgoToS
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sussex Spark 2025: Is the UK Politically Corrupt?
Join us at Brighton Dome on 18 Sept for a public debate on the Nolan Principles and standards in public life.
Panel: @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social,Becky Dobson Phillips, @suehawley.bsky.social, @drhannahwhite.bsky.social.
🎟️ Tickets: t.co/eQ90lgoToS
Join us at Brighton Dome on 18 Sept for a public debate on the Nolan Principles and standards in public life.
Panel: @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social,Becky Dobson Phillips, @suehawley.bsky.social, @drhannahwhite.bsky.social.
🎟️ Tickets: t.co/eQ90lgoToS
Read the new blog by @devipillay.co.za for @giace.bsky.social!
New blog by @devipillay.co.za: As Bain leaves South Africa, what have we learned about consultancies & corruption?
Read: bit.ly/DeviBainblog
📅 On 23 September 2025, we’ll publish our new paper: Consulting firms, corruption & state capture: A case study from South Africa (Follow to get it first!)
Read: bit.ly/DeviBainblog
📅 On 23 September 2025, we’ll publish our new paper: Consulting firms, corruption & state capture: A case study from South Africa (Follow to get it first!)
As Bain leaves South Africa, what have we learned about consultancies and corruption? - Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
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August 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Read the new blog by @devipillay.co.za for @giace.bsky.social!
New blog by Robert Barrington explores the risks of applying anti-terror laws to protest groups & what it could mean for civil society’s role in anti-corruption. Reflects on UK & global trends.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UjVK04
#Governance #CivilSociety #RuleOfLaw
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UjVK04
#Governance #CivilSociety #RuleOfLaw
August 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
New blog by Robert Barrington explores the risks of applying anti-terror laws to protest groups & what it could mean for civil society’s role in anti-corruption. Reflects on UK & global trends.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UjVK04
#Governance #CivilSociety #RuleOfLaw
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UjVK04
#Governance #CivilSociety #RuleOfLaw
New blog by @csc-barrington.bsky.social explores the risks of applying anti-terror laws to protest groups & what it could mean for civil society’s role in anti-corruption. Reflects on UK & global trends.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UjVK04
#Governance #CivilSociety #RuleOfLaw
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UjVK04
#Governance #CivilSociety #RuleOfLaw
August 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
New blog by @csc-barrington.bsky.social explores the risks of applying anti-terror laws to protest groups & what it could mean for civil society’s role in anti-corruption. Reflects on UK & global trends.
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UjVK04
#Governance #CivilSociety #RuleOfLaw
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3UjVK04
#Governance #CivilSociety #RuleOfLaw
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We’re excited to welcome @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social as the new Programme Director of GI ACE!
We’re thrilled to have her leading the next phase of GI ACE’s work to advance integrity and evidence-based anti-corruption strategies.
Read more about Liz’s background: giace.org/about/
We’re thrilled to have her leading the next phase of GI ACE’s work to advance integrity and evidence-based anti-corruption strategies.
Read more about Liz’s background: giace.org/about/
August 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We’re excited to welcome @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social as the new Programme Director of GI ACE!
We’re thrilled to have her leading the next phase of GI ACE’s work to advance integrity and evidence-based anti-corruption strategies.
Read more about Liz’s background: giace.org/about/
We’re thrilled to have her leading the next phase of GI ACE’s work to advance integrity and evidence-based anti-corruption strategies.
Read more about Liz’s background: giace.org/about/
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The July GI ACE newsletter is here!
✅ Project spotlight: Corruption risks in voluntary carbon markets
✅ Congo Hold-Up seminar recap
✅ Meet the GI ACE Fellows
✅ Blogs & podcasts on dual-use goods, democracy & corruption
📖 Read: bit.ly/giacenewslet...
📬 Subscribe: bit.ly/giacesubscribe
✅ Project spotlight: Corruption risks in voluntary carbon markets
✅ Congo Hold-Up seminar recap
✅ Meet the GI ACE Fellows
✅ Blogs & podcasts on dual-use goods, democracy & corruption
📖 Read: bit.ly/giacenewslet...
📬 Subscribe: bit.ly/giacesubscribe
August 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The July GI ACE newsletter is here!
✅ Project spotlight: Corruption risks in voluntary carbon markets
✅ Congo Hold-Up seminar recap
✅ Meet the GI ACE Fellows
✅ Blogs & podcasts on dual-use goods, democracy & corruption
📖 Read: bit.ly/giacenewslet...
📬 Subscribe: bit.ly/giacesubscribe
✅ Project spotlight: Corruption risks in voluntary carbon markets
✅ Congo Hold-Up seminar recap
✅ Meet the GI ACE Fellows
✅ Blogs & podcasts on dual-use goods, democracy & corruption
📖 Read: bit.ly/giacenewslet...
📬 Subscribe: bit.ly/giacesubscribe
📚 Highlights from the CSC Summer Academy!
Two days of rich discussion on state capture, grand corruption, integrity in sport, and more. Interested in anti-corruption?
Apply to our MA in Corruption & Governance:
lnkd.in/e-vEK2sb
#AntiCorruption #GoodGovernance #CSC
Two days of rich discussion on state capture, grand corruption, integrity in sport, and more. Interested in anti-corruption?
Apply to our MA in Corruption & Governance:
lnkd.in/e-vEK2sb
#AntiCorruption #GoodGovernance #CSC
July 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📚 Highlights from the CSC Summer Academy!
Two days of rich discussion on state capture, grand corruption, integrity in sport, and more. Interested in anti-corruption?
Apply to our MA in Corruption & Governance:
lnkd.in/e-vEK2sb
#AntiCorruption #GoodGovernance #CSC
Two days of rich discussion on state capture, grand corruption, integrity in sport, and more. Interested in anti-corruption?
Apply to our MA in Corruption & Governance:
lnkd.in/e-vEK2sb
#AntiCorruption #GoodGovernance #CSC
New on the CSC blog: @robynlewis.bsky.social & Michael Johnston explore how informal elite networks - what they term Elite Cartels - may shape governance and development outcomes in Tasmania.
🔗 bit.ly/CSCblog11
#Governance #CSC #EliteCartels #Tasmania #PublicPolicy
🔗 bit.ly/CSCblog11
#Governance #CSC #EliteCartels #Tasmania #PublicPolicy
July 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
New on the CSC blog: @robynlewis.bsky.social & Michael Johnston explore how informal elite networks - what they term Elite Cartels - may shape governance and development outcomes in Tasmania.
🔗 bit.ly/CSCblog11
#Governance #CSC #EliteCartels #Tasmania #PublicPolicy
🔗 bit.ly/CSCblog11
#Governance #CSC #EliteCartels #Tasmania #PublicPolicy
📢 New on the CSC blog: @csc-barrington.bsky.social explores what the upcoming Lammy Summit might signal for UK leadership on illicit finance and anti-corruption—opportunity or missed chance?
🔗 bit.ly/CSCBlog10
#IllicitFinance #Anticorruption #Governance #UKPolicy #CSC #LammySummit #Transparency
🔗 bit.ly/CSCBlog10
#IllicitFinance #Anticorruption #Governance #UKPolicy #CSC #LammySummit #Transparency
July 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
📢 New on the CSC blog: @csc-barrington.bsky.social explores what the upcoming Lammy Summit might signal for UK leadership on illicit finance and anti-corruption—opportunity or missed chance?
🔗 bit.ly/CSCBlog10
#IllicitFinance #Anticorruption #Governance #UKPolicy #CSC #LammySummit #Transparency
🔗 bit.ly/CSCBlog10
#IllicitFinance #Anticorruption #Governance #UKPolicy #CSC #LammySummit #Transparency