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Join host Alexandra Addison-Wrage, President & Founder of TRACE, on Bribe, Swindle or Steal as she explores the world of financial crime—corruption, fraud, money laundering and sanctions—and what motivates people to break the law, how wrongdoers cover their tracks and what can be done to put a stop to the looting through interviews with experts in the field.
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Leah Ambler, Director, Corruption Prevention at the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity and former Legal Analyst at the OECD, joins the podcast—in her personal capacity—to discuss her excellent chapter on Whistleblower Protections. Leah discusses the importance of whistleblower protections to reducing corruption and the challenges inherent in these protections in the absence of comprehensive, harmonized legislation.
This episode was originally published on 12 January 2022.
Tom Best, a partner in Paul Hastings&rsquo Washington office, joins the podcast to review sanctions policy under the Trump administration and then makes some predictions about what we should expect from President Biden in 2021.Download TRACE's white paper "Does Your Sanctions Compliance Program Align with OFAC&rsquos 2019 Compliance Framework?", written by Paul Hastings.
Robert Cribb of the Toronto Star discusses the emails and documents turned over to the media in furtherance of a family feud that spans continents and exposes financial schemes that are both complex and well-documented.
Rupert Younger of Oxford&rsquos Center for Corporate Reputation and Alexandra discuss some novelbribery schemes at Berkeley&rsquos 2019 &ldquoFraudfest&rdquo. (The sound quality reflects the conference setting.)
Jennifer Taub, author, legal scholar, professor and advocate, joins the podcast to talk about her latest book, Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime. Jennifer focuses, in particular, on how much more gently we treat corporate financial crime than we do very petty financial crime, in spite of the fact that the former costs taxpayers far more money.
Robert Clark, Manager of Legal Research at TRACE, discusses the TRACE Matrix, a data-driven tool that assesses the likelihood&mdashby country&mdashof a company being asked to pay a bribe. This podcast is technical and may be of particular interest to academics and those in civil society seeking new ways to measure risk.
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