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Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE)
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GI ACE research aims to generate actionable evidence that policymakers, practitioners, and advocates can use to design and implement more effective anti-corruption initiatives.

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Today’s #GIACEseminar was a lively dive into how illicit finance is reshaping tourism and hospitality.

Thank you to Jean-Patrick Villeneuve, @ofabianobomfim.bsky.social, Dieter Zinnbauer, @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social and all the participants who joined!

Learn more: bit.ly/corruptionin...
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Happening today at 1-2 PM UK time!
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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
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November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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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
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November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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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
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
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New #GIACE research by @csdbuildbridges.bsky.social (Tihomira Kostova & Martin Vladimirov) exposes how illicit financial flows (IFFs) and sanctions-evasion networks have surged across the Western Balkans and Black Sea region, reshaping global integrity and governance.

🔗 Read: bit.ly/CSDPublicati...
Shadow Economies: The Rise of Illicit Networks and Alternative Markets in Sanctions Circumvention - Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
This paper examines how illicit financial flows (IFFs) in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions have surged in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Using trade and econometric analysis, it es...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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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
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October 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Out today! Our new briefing delves into obligations for different players in the Kenyan real estate sector under AML laws, and the authorities responsible for ensuring these laws are enforced: cifar.eu/anti-money-l...
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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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...
‘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
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📢 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:
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Register Here: bit.ly/CSC2webinar
October 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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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...
Shadow Economies: IFFs & Sanctions Evasion in the Balkans & Black Sea
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October 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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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
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New blog from @fangelico.bsky.social & Jean-Patrick Villeneuve exposes how real estate booms in Brazil, Kenya & Indonesia are fuelling money laundering through tourism-driven growth.
Read here: bit.ly/corruptionin...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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
October 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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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
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October 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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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
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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@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-...
September 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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#Statecapture in South Africa wasn’t just politicians & the Guptas. Firms like McKinsey, Regiments & Trillian at Transnet & Eskom enabled inflated contracts & mismanagement.

#GIACE research by @devipillay.co.za shows how unchecked outsourcing weakens state capacity.

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September 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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In part two of this three part series, #GIACE research fellow @devipillay.co.za explores the nature and scope of the Commission’s work — from its ambitious mandate, to how it defined “state capture,” to the challenges it faced in delivering justice.

Read the full blog here: bit.ly/DeviZondoBlog2
The Zondo Commission and its investigations into state capture in South Africa - Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
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September 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Join us today as we kickoff our first #GIACESeminar with Dan Marks & @jenniferscotland.bsky.social from @rusi.bsky.social and reflections from Pablo Fernandez (EcoSecurities).

📖 Scoping Corruption in Voluntary Carbon Markets
🕰️ 12:30–1:30 PM (UK time)
🔗 bit.ly/GIACESeminar1
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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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
September 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Join us on 18 September as we kickoff our first #GIACESeminar with Dan Marks & @jenniferscotland.bsky.social from @rusi.bsky.social, and reflections from Pablo Fernandez (EcoSecurities).

📖 Scoping Corruption in Voluntary Carbon Markets
🕰️ 12:30–1:30 PM (UK time)
🔗 bit.ly/GIACESeminar1
September 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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💡At the GI-ACE Mid-Year Conference 2025 in London, @giace.bsky.social , CSD shared new findings on state capture.

Tihomira Kostova & Todor Galev showed how third-country trade routes enable the re-export of EU dual-use goods to Russia — a key test for sanctions enforcement.

#StateCapture #GIACE
September 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Join us on 18 September as we kickoff our first #GIACESeminar with Dan Marks & @jenniferscotland.bsky.social from @rusi.bsky.social, and reflections from Pablo Fernandez (EcoSecurities).

📖 Scoping Corruption in Voluntary Carbon Markets
🕰️ 12:30–1:30 PM (UK time)
🔗 bit.ly/GIACESeminar1
September 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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#GIACE hosted our Mid-Year Conference (8–9 Sept) with researchers, Fellows, FCDO & CSO partners.
Day 1 featured multiple panels on research themes, ending with a roundtable on the Changing Global Order.
Day 2 focused on impact - turning research into real-world solutions and more.

bit.ly/giaceconf
September 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social co-chaired a panel on state capture at the @ecpr.bsky.social annual meeting in Thessaloniki.

Our takeaway: Tackling capture means understanding not just corruption itself, but the mechanisms & motivations that make states vulnerable.

Recap blog> bit.ly/ecprconferen...
September 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM