Global Witness campaigns to break the links between natural resources, corruption and conflict. Our work has revealed how, rather than benefiting a country's citizens, abundant timber, diamonds, minerals, oil and other natural resources can incentivise corruption, destabilise governments, and lead to war. The financial sector enables this exploitation, for example by opening bank accounts for corrupt politicians, allowing contractors to make wire transfers to pay bribes, and by letting corrupt politician spend their ill-gotten loot.
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Bank of America Bank of America is an American multinational banking and financial services corporation and is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and… |
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Barclays Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in retail and commercial banking, credit cards, investment banking, wealth management and investment management… |
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Citi Citigroup Inc., doing business as Citi, is a major American financial services company based in New York, NY. Citigroup was formed from a merger between Citicorp and financial… |
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UBS Modern UBS was formed through a merger of the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation in June 1998. UBS is headquartered in Zurich and Basel and it… |
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Samling The Samling group, which is based in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo, is one of Malaysia's biggest logging companies and responsible for the ongoing destruction… |
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| Banking in the Shadows .. a Trip to Jersey Sep 07, 2009 - The British Channel Island of Jersey is a major European tax haven.
In March 2009, European activists visited Jersey to expose how tax havens affect the lives of ordinary people around the world. |
