"Criminals and sanctions-busters exploiting UK secrecy loophole"

It's actually an English secrecy loophole, given that Scotland has closed it.

Nice bit of investigative journalism.

#LimitedPartnerships #BeneficialOwnership #MoneyLaundering #SanctionsBusting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67276289

Criminals and sanctions-busters exploiting UK secrecy loophole

Seychelles company linked to Putin’s inner circle exploited UK loophole for hundreds of firms, BBC finds.

BBC News

Transparency Internation and Tax Justice Network publish ‘expert’ papers on #beneficialownership and completely disregard fundamental rights of European citizens #HumanRights #GDPR
⁦‪@anticorruption‬⁩ ⁦‪@TaxJusticeNet‬⁩ ⁦‪@EU_Commission‬⁩

https://ellentimmer.com/2023/06/15/ubo-register-29/

Transparency Internation and Tax Justice Network publish ‘expert’ papers on beneficial ownership and completely disregard fundamental rights of European citizens

A private group named ‘Network of Experts on Beneficial Ownership Transparency’, NEBOT, that is financed by the European Commission, has published papers through the European Commission…

Ellen Timmer - juridische artikelen en berichten
Of course fundamental rights and #dataprotection are irrelevant; people are not entitled to that and if they are it is not enforced #beneficialownership

RT @OpenOwnership: Next week! Join @stephen_abbott for a session on data standards at the #ENDORSE2023 European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics.

Great speaker line-up, including
@JHahnEU
@interoperableEU
@EU_opendata

#OpenData #DataStandards #BeneficialOwnership #transparency
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_opendata/status/1634179204064444416

BODS RDF - SPARQL examples for various beneficial ownership use cases

The previous in-depth examples on UBOs and Ultimate parents are only scratching the surface of what's possible with BODS RDF. So I thought it would be useful to provide a broader range of queries for some common (and less common) use cases in the beneficial ownership problem space. A note on ownership and control queries The BODS RDF v...

This Luxembourg Businessman Got Europe's Corporate Registries Shut Down. But Whose Privacy Was He Protecting? - OCCRP

Why did a man who runs a private aircraft company become a central figure in rolling back corporate transparency across the continent? As it turns out, Patrick Hansen has secrets of his own — inclu...

OCCRP
I'd been out of the loop on #beneficialownership, but it seems things are regressing... in the #EU for a change! Following the Nov 2022 #CJEU decision that #publicregisters were breaching the #rightoprivacy, https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2022/11/22/la-justice-europeenne-met-un-frein-a-la-transparence-financiere_6151134_3234.html, many countries started pulling out of the #AML Directive. The latest is #France, who pulled out #bénéficiaireseffectifs from "#opendata, because of the #CJEU decision". Later, it claimed it'd been a technical rather than political issue. TBC?
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2023/01/05/transparence-financiere-la-france-suspend-en-catimini-son-registre-des-beneficiaires-effectifs-de-societes_6156758_4355770.html
La justice européenne met un frein à la transparence financière

La Cour de justice de l’Union européenne a décidé, mardi, d’invalider une disposition de la directive antiblanchiment de 2018.

Le Monde

Along with Patricia Brown, I co-authored a UNDESA policy brief on how beneficial ownership information can support fair taxation and financial integrity.

A thread on #beneficialownership, a recent hot topic. This brief argues that beneficial ownership information is essential for tackling illicit financial flows and can facilitate return of stolen assets.

https://www.un.org/development/desa/financing/document/beneficial-ownership-information-supporting-fair-taxation-and-financial-integrity

Beneficial ownership information: Supporting fair taxation and financial integrity | Financing for Sustainable Development Office

It's warped that the European Court of Justice would protect the identity of the real owners of companies when Europe needs to fight kleptocrats. It's also iniquitous at a time when the privacy of ordinary citizens remains so compromised by Big Tech.
#beneficialownership @Curia @transparency

https://www.transparency.org/en/press/eu-court-of-justice-delivers-blow-to-beneficial-ownership-transparency

EU Court of Justice delivers blow to beneficial ownership…

EU Court of Justice's decision invalidating public access to beneficial ownership registers sets back fight against corruption.

Transparency.org
@danneidle This is a complex ruling, and is certainly not the end of the story. There is a growing understanding on the use case for public beneficial ownership which may go some way towards changing the balance of this argument. More thoughts to follow. #BeneficialOwnership #CJEU