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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.
Will Fitzgibbon, an ICIJ reporter on the Paradise Papers team, describes this latest tranche of documents. He discusses the corrosive nature of offshore accounts, even in those cases where they are technically legal.
Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb in October 2017 while reporting on corruption in Malta. Roberto Montalto, her lawyer, describes her courage, her work and the loss of a Maltese institution.
Walt Pavlo describes how his organization helps offenders prepare for their incarceration and discusses challenges&mdashand a few surprises--within the prison system.
Bradley Hope of the WallStreet Journal describes his team&rsquos in-depth and ongoing research into Malaysia&rsquos 1MDB scandal--and where Leonardo DiCaprio fits in.
Martina Vandenberg, Founder and President of the Human Trafficking Legal Center, describes patterns of trafficked labor in supply chains, recent cases and how her organization is holding traffickers accountable through civil litigation and criminal restitution. HT Legal leverages pro bono support from law firms to gain compensation for survivors.
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