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DATA has been released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) that shows how African governments collect less tax as a proportion of their countries’ wealth than in Latin America and the Caribbean. Africa’s average 2015 tax-to-GDP ratio was 19.1%; compared to 22.8% in Latin America/Caribbean and 34.3% for the 35 richer countries within the OECD.…

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged two individuals in relation to the global
Unaoil bribery and corruption investigation. Ziad Akle and Basil Al Jarah were both on
November 16 charged with conspiracy to make corrupt payments to secure the award of oil
contracts in Iraq to Unaoil’s Dutch client SBM Offshore.…

Of course, it is not doing this by increasing policing and the number of suspicious transaction reports, but by liberalising what is now a criminal activity, the growing, processing, sale and consumption of cannabis for recreation.

By doing so, it plans to be the first G20 country to legalise and regulate the recreational use of cannabis nationwide by July 2018.…

CONSIDER for a moment the long list of items hacked in spectacular fashion for the edification of those who descended on Las Vegas this summer for the annual BlackHat and DEFCON security events: voting machines, ‘smart’ safes, cars, guns, car washes, infusion pumps and radioactivity sensors.…

WITH the introduction of Bill C-45 into the Canadian House of Commons earlier this year, and its securing a second reading vote in June (see https://openparliament.ca/bills/42-1/C-45/), Canada’s government has moved closer to removing millions of dollars of dirty money from its economy.…

Multinationals and suppliers in the personal care product sector are unilaterally implementing measures to reduce their carbon footprint in the wake of the 2015 Paris climate treaty, taking steps to reduce energy use, their impact on forests and cutting water use and pollution.…

EUROPEAN Union (EU) companies that put foods containing egg or chicken contaminated with the toxic insecticide fipronil on the market after 1 August 2017 will be considered liable as they should have known about the risk, the European Commission has told member states in the Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF) (Novel Food and Toxicological Safety of the Food Chain Section).…

TRINIDADIAN accountant Anthony Pierre is clear that his major brief as the new president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Caribbean (ICAC) is to help build a cadre of “future-ready” professionals willing to cooperate across national borders within the region and be guided by international best practice.…

A new industry roadmap to advance the development of power-to-gas in Europe is just one reason advocates of hydrogen production and storage are optimistic about the next decade. The laying of foundations for larger-scale developments of power-to-gas (P2G) in Europe have gathered momentum throughout 2017, with the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) and the Joint Programme on Energy Storage under the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) laying plans.…

Airbus Industrie has opened the second internal investigation in less than a year, following an exclusive September 18 report in The Guardian newspaper linked the aeronautics giant to two companies making secret payments via tax havens. 

Airbus Industrie is already under investigation in both France and the UK, over its use of middlemen to pass bungs to gain government contracts. …