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Alex Jacobs

@aj16.bsky.social

Director of the Joffe Trust. Illicit finance, economic crime, philanthropy. Scaramouche Sailing Trust too.

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Investigative journalism isn’t fast or easy. It takes time, resources, and persistence. But it makes a difference. The Ferret has spent years exposing corporate misconduct, political influence, and environmental harm. Help us continue: bit.ly/40xhnec

26.05.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great job, wonderful team, at the heart of the action

21.05.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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18.05.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Luxembourg recovered €54m in taxes after Panama Papers publication Luxembourg’s finance minister has detailed how much revenue tax authorities collected after journalists’ 2016 investigation

From The Luxembourg Times: Luxembourg authorities collected more than €50 million in additional tax revenue immediately following ICIJ's publication of the #PanamaPapers, Finance Minister Gilles Roth said in response to a parliamentary question last week.

15.05.2025 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Senior Legal Manager, Governance and Accountability Programme Careers at International Lawyers Project as Senior Legal Manager, Governance and Accountability Programme

International Lawyers Project are hiring an anti-corruption specialist www.internationallawyersproject.org/career-oppor...

Deadline EOD Wednesday 28 May 2025
Interviews week of 5 June 2025

30.04.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I see we're back to credulously reporting the "millionaire migration" claims of a company that sells migration services to millionaires.

I have contacted the people behind these studies and they wouldn't tell me the underlying numbers. Only HMRC actually knows how many millionaires have moved.

09.04.2025 09:50 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

UK lawyers need to be effective gate keepers against dirty money that comes into the UK. But is the current anti-money laundering framework working to make sure they do? Our latest report showing that despite some promising signs, ambitious reform is needed to move the dial.

06.03.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join our team! - Joffe Trust Joffe Trust convenes unique cross-sector group to identify how to tackle economic crime better together.

Incredible opportunity here to work with the brilliant @aj16.bsky.social at the Joffe Trust, tackling illicit finance (Programme Director). Absolutely essential work in these dangerous times. joffetrust.org/join-our-tea...

04.03.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If they are to remain credible, the FATF and European institutions need to begin treating the US as a high-risk jurisdiction

04.03.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

A lot here that applies in the UK too, on tackling Trump by fighting dirty money.

03.03.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Headline take aways:

1. There’s a huge amount of brilliant and thoughtful work going on. Very inspiring & hopeful.
2. Different fields need to tackle this question themselves.
3. Funders should step up.
4. We're not acting together with the scale & urgency the times demand - yet.

03.03.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How is UK Civil Society responding to Trumpworld & the hard right? Last week I asked how is UK civil society responding to Trumpworld & the hard right? The answers & comments are gold dust. Thank you for all your replies.

How's UK civil society responding to Trumpworld & the rise of the far right?

I asked LinkedIn's hive mind & this is what I heard, so far.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-uk...

03.03.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Bangladeshi politician who built a shadowy global property empire FT investigation: Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and his family bought 482 properties overseas costing $295mn. The new government wants some of that money back

Brilliant deep dive into Bangladeshi politician's multi-$100m's property empire inc 315 UK properties.

'Yunus has described the alleged looting of banks by elites as β€œhighway robbery”, and said the money β€œhas to be brought back”.' @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org

on.ft.com/3F02YBW

28.02.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such important analysis:

35% of voters feel economically insecure & are looking for political alternatives

Surely this is the political challenge of our times, to fight populism?

25.02.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And Priti Patel welcomed him into the UK parliament on 20 Feb 2025:

x.com/KevinRoberts...

21.02.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And this is a fundemental dividing line with Trump

21.02.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kevin Roberts, President of Heritage Foundation, architect of Project2025. 12 Feb 2025:

"The woke, international, progressive elite is fundamentally a hate group. They hate the US. They hate democracy .. Christianity .. Judaism .."

Jawdropping.

x.com/KevinRoberts...

21.02.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will Donald Trump make money laundering great again? The US was on the verge of major anti-corruption reform. Then Trump took office.

"The US was on the verge of major anti-corruption reform. Then Trump took office."
from Casey Michel
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

20.02.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1535    πŸ” 468    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 15
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The US led the charge against global corruption. Now Trump is clearing the way for kleptocrats | Oliver Bullough Britain used to solicit money that the US would not touch – but with oligarchs and fraudsters on the rise, it must now uphold the law, says author Oliver Bullough

.@OliverBullough 's opinion piece urges the U.K. to β€œstep up where the U.S. is stepping back” in fighting corruption, including funding networks like OCCRP that do β€œindispensable journalistic work"

18.02.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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14.02.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
President Trump & Elon Musk in the Oval Office: Full Remarks
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts President Trump & Elon Musk in the Oval Office: Full Remarks

Just endured every excruciating minute of this. With Trump sitting there, the kid wandering around, Musk gives a crash course in his theory of democracy that would embarrass a semi-literate stoner. These are fools in charge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuT...

12.02.2025 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1657    πŸ” 437    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 78
Musk tweet to Larry Summers

Musk tweet to Larry Summers

Just to keep up with what Musk is saying

12.02.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Director of People and Operations (Maternity Cover) SummaryThis role is an Executive level role, sharing overall responsibility for the Lab’s impact with the other members of the Exec (CEO, COO, Director of Programmes and Campaigns).The role will be sp...

πŸ“£ Less than a week left to apply to our Director of People and Operations (Maternity Cover) role! If you’re someone who is a caring and collaborative people and operations professional apply now!

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12.02.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.

06.02.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1019    πŸ” 438    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 32
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A smokescreen for secrecy Why the British Virgin Island’s corporate register reform plans fall flat

Despite repeated promises from the British Virgin Islands to tackle corrosive corporate secrecy its latest proposals look like a smokescreen for continued secrecy.

@transparencyuk.bsky.social’s @margotmollat.bsky.social explains…

www.transparency.org.uk/news/smokesc...

#AntiCorruption #DirtyMoney

05.02.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Newsletters - Coda Story Coda’s newsletters are designed to help you uncover the complex ways that today’s pressing issues are interconnected, so you can make sense of the world.

In the old days (when I still used twitter), I had a weekly newsletter called Oligarchy, in which I looked at what was happening in the world of financial skulduggery. I took a break to write a book, but it's back this week!

Sign up this week if you'd like to get it.
www.codastory.com/newsletters/

13.01.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

After Tulip Siddiq's resignation, Emma Reynolds becomes Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

Torsten Bell is promoted to joint junior minister at Treasury and DWP.

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Politics latest: Starmer's anti-corruption minister leaves government City minister Tulip Siddiq has left government after becoming embroiled in a corruption scandal. Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves has faced MPs for the first time since Number 10 guaranteed she would remain c...

Tulip Siddiq resigns as City minister. In letter to PM Siddiq said that while she had "not breached the ministerial code", it is clear that continuing as a Treasury minister would be "a distraction from the work of the govt” PM tells her β€˜door always open for a return’

news.sky.com/story/pressu...

14.01.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING: Tulip Siddiq has resigned as a Treasury minister

In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Labour MP said that while she had "not breached the ministerial code", it is clear that continuing in her post would be "a distraction from the work of the government"

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