Welcome to Edition 5 of the Crime & Corruption update in my newsletter, ‘perspicacity’. Featuring cryptocurrency, drug dead drops, and Russia's use of organised crime as a tool of statecraft. Enjoy!

#Corruption #financialcrime #illicitfinance #sanctions #Crypto

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardnield/p/crime-and-corruption-update-5?r=2gnt1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Thank you so much for inviting me and bringing this important topic with this fruitful discussion to another level.

Extremely helpful for us in the @europarl_en

#IllicitFinance
#Russia
#Sanctions
RT @tenaprelec: A big thank you to the full house of experts who’ve come to our workshop on #IllicitFinance & the war in Ukraine, org w/ @david_g_lewis @hamarquette & showcasing @SOCACE_Research. Excellent discussions helping to shape an important research and polic…

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1638285259505582081

RT @tenaprelec: Special thanks to @RUSI_org colleagues and to Ukrainian journalists & activists for taking part in it, as well as to @violavoncramon for joining us from across the Channel - multilateral cooperation is crucial for effective policy solutions tackling #illicitfinance & #kleptocracy

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1638285343265894404

RT @tenaprelec: A big thank you to the full house of experts who’ve come to our workshop on #IllicitFinance & the war in Ukraine, org w/ @david_g_lewis @hamarquette & showcasing @SOCACE_Research. Excellent discussions helping to shape an important research and policy agenda

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ViolavonCramon/status/1638284315619471364

Apropos of things happening at the other place, it seems like a time to rebuild.

Here are some signals to find others in the overlapping niche communities I call home.

#illicitfinance - all things crime, corruption, money-laundering, banking, offshore secrecy, and so on.

#whistleblowing - protecting the sentinels of good governance and bringing their revelations into the public domain.

#africa - definitely not a country; profoundly understudied despite its kaleidoscopic global significance.