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MONEY LAUNDERING IN ITALY'S GREEN ENERGY SECTOR



BY ALAN OSBORN and LEE ADENDORFF

AS a rapidly growing sector with heavy funding and lax controls, Italy’s green energy industry has increasingly attracted infiltration from Mafia groups seeking to intercept investment and escape notice. With shady international dealings only recently coming under scrutiny, authorities are stepping up countermeasures with hopes of curbing a spreading trend.…

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DIXY GROUP LAUNCHES USD25.5 MILLION MARKETING OVERHAUL



BY LENA SMIRNOVA

RUSSIA’S Dixy Group will spend US dollars USD25.5 million on a marketing overhaul that will start on June 1, the company announced in Moscow last night (May 30).

As part of the new strategy, the company will redesign the look of its stores and roll out a Russia-wide advertising campaign to solidify its identity as a friendly, neighbourhood supermarket.…

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GREEN ENERGY BECOMING MAJOR VEHICLE FOR MONEY LAUNDERING



BY LEE ADENDOORF and ALAN OSBORN

THE HIGH profile arrest in 2009 of a Sicilian businessman involved in the renewable energy sector and the subsequent seizure of his assets worth over Euro EUR1.5 billion in 2010, threw the international spotlight onto a problem Italian authorities have been grappling with for some time: the use of ‘clean energy’ industries such as wind and solar farms to launder mafia funds.…

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ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS SHOULD HELP ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROBES



BY ALAN OSBORN, KEITH NUTHALL and RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE INTRODUCTION of new global accounting standards through the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which began some five years ago and will take 10 or more years to achieve is a massive undertaking which will revolutionise corporate bookkeeping and lead to an international standard matrix of values allowing for much greater transparency and facilitating country-by-country financial comparisons.…

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GREEN PACKAGING DEVELOPMENTS AND DEMAND GROWS IN THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY, DESPITE SLOW RECOVERY FROM RECESSION



BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH waste regulations becoming increasingly tight worldwide, and consumers’ environmental consciousness growing, the global personal care product industry has taken note of the lean towards ‘green’, and is starting to reduce packaging complexity.

This is despite leading organic products marketing research firm Organic Monitor recently releasing a not-so-optimistic report on sustainable packaging in the beauty sector – saying that although packaging has the highest environmental footprint within the realm of cosmetics products, it appears to be largely ignored when beauty companies look at sustainability.…

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EU PLOTS OFFICIAL GOOD PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE



BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is plotting a standardisation of Chinese traditional medicine, so it can gain greater acceptance in Europe. The GP-TCM project has been allotted Euro EUR995,100 in Brussels money, with researchers from China, 13 EU member states, Australia, Canada, Norway, Thailand and the USA assessing the status of these medicines worldwide.…

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CONVERTING SECTOR SUPPLIERS DIVERSIFY SERVICE OPTIONS TO GET CLOSE TO BESPOKE SOLUTIONS



BY DEIRDRE MASON

A COMPANY’S reputation can be made or broken by the standard of its after-sales service to purchasers and this is as true for the manufacturers of converting machinery as for any other sector of manufacturing industry. As competitive pressure grows, customers are demanding after-sales care that keeps their machines running for longer and with fewer breakdowns.…

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OECD WARNS OF POTENTIAL GLOBAL IMPACT OF CYBERCRIME



BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EXPERT paper written for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) has shown how cybercrime attacks on computing systems can go beyond the merely criminal to pose security risks to society and governments. Its ‘Reducing Systemic Cybersecurity Risk’ report, written by academics from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, assesses a wide variety of cyber-attacks, from phishing and large-scale malware, to outright cyber-warfare.…

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FRANCE BOOSTS RENEWABLE SPENDING - BUT ITS LONG-TERM COMMITMENT TO NUCLEAR POWER REMAINS



BY PACIFICA GODDARD

FRANCE is far ahead of the curve in terms of weaning itself off fossil fuels and sports the closest thing to energy independence of any country in Europe. Ever since 1974 when the government decided to rapidly expand the country’s nuclear power capacity, France has not felt the intense stress of energy insecurity nor been particularly impacted by the rising and falling prices of fuel.…

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PATCHWORK OF PIPELINES BEING DEVELOPED TO BRING HYDROCARBONS FROM THE CASPIAN TO EUROPE



BY MARK ROWE

THE FUEL pipeline network around the Caspian and Black Seas increasingly resembles a London Underground map, a comparison enhanced by the latest potential addition to the lattice, known as the AGRI scheme.

AGRI, the acronym for the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector, is a proposal for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) transportation across the Black Sea.…

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