UNDER-COVER ACADEMICS EXPOSE WEAKNESSES OF SHELL COMPANY CONTROLS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRY JURISDICTIONS
March 1st, 2014
MONEY laundering through global shell companies could be better tackled with simple and inexpensive measures rather than revisions of complex anti-money laundering (AML) procedures, according to a senior Australian academic. “We don’t need more rules, we need better enforcement of existing rules,” said Prof Jason Sharman, co-author of ‘Global Shell Games: Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism’, due for release in April 2014.Prof Sharman’s book, co-authored with colleagues Michael G Findley and Daniel L Nielson, is his fourth on ...
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