Financial Crime and Corruption
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CONTENTS
According to David McClintick ( Swordfish: A True Story of Ambition, Savagery, and Betrayal ), in the late 1980's, the FBI and DEA set up dummy corporations to deal in drugs. They funneled into these corporate fronts money from drug-related asset seizures.
The idea was to infiltrate global crime networks but a lot of the money in Operation Swordfish may have ended up in the wrong pockets. Government agents and sheriffs got mysteriously and filthily rich and the whole sorry affair was wound down. The GAO reported more than $3.6 billion missing. This bit of history gave rise to at least one blockbuster with Oscar-winner Halle Berry.
Alas, slush funds are much less glamorous in reality. They usually involve grubby politicians, pawky bankers, and philistine businessmen - rather than glamorous hackers and James Bondean secret agents.
The Kazakh prime minister, Imanghaliy Tasmaghambetov, freely admitted on April 4, 2002 to his country's rubber-stamp parliament the existence of a $1 billion slush fund. The money was apparently skimmed off the proceeds of the opaque sale of the Tengiz oilfield.
Remitting it to Kazakhstan - he expostulated with a poker face - would have fostered inflation. So, the country's president, Nazarbaev, kept the funds abroad for use in the event of either an economic crisis or a threat to Kazakhstan's security .
Samuel Vaknin
Financial Crime and Corruption
2nd EDITION
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska
I. Slush Funds
II. Corruption and Transparency
III.Money Laundering in A Changed World
IV. Hawala, or The Bank that Never Was
V. Straf - Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe
VI. The Kleptocracies of the East
VII. FIMACO - Russia's Missing Billions
VIII. The Enrons of the East
IX. The Typology of Financial Scandals
X. The Shadowy World of International Finance
XI. Treasure Island Revisited On Maritime Piracy
XII. Legalizing Crime
APPENDIX - Should Drugs be Legalized?
XIII. Begging Your Trust in Africa
XIV. Organ Trafficking in Eastern Europe
XV. Selling Arms to Rogue States
XVI. The Industrious Spies
XVII. Russia's Idled Spies
XVIII. The Business of Torture
XIX. The Criminality of Transition
XX. The Economics of Conspiracy Theories
XXI. The Demise of the Work Ethic
XXII. The Morality of Child Labor
XXIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield
XXIV. The Future of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Interview with Gary Goodenow
Section 3 of the Act, titled "Commission Rules and
XXV. Trading from a Suitcase. The Case of Shuttle Trade
XXVI. The Blessings of the Black Economy
XXVII. Public Procurement and Very Private Benefits
XXVIII. Crisis of the Bookkeepers
XXIX. Competition Laws
XXX. The Benefits of Oligopolies
XXXI. Anarchy as an Organizing Principle
XXXII. Narcissism in the Boardroom
XXXIII. The Revolt of the Poor
The Demise of Intellectual Property?
XXXIV. The Kidnapping of Content
http://www.plagiarism.org and http://www.Turnitin.com
XXXV. The Economics of Spam
XXXVII. The Fabric of Economic Trust
XXXVIII. The Distributive Justice of the Market
XXXIX. The Agent-Principal Conundrum
XL. The Green-Eyed Capitalist
Notes on the Economics of
XLII. Market Impeders and Market Inefficiencies
XLIII. The Pettifogger Procurators
Diplomats in Post-Communist Countries
XLIV. Microsoft's Third Front
The Intellectual Property Wars
XLV. NGOs - The Self-Appointed Altruists
XLVII. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
Who is Guarding the Guards in Countries in Transition from Communism?
XLVII. The Honorary Academic Higher Education for Sale
In Countries in Transition from Communism
XLVIII. Rasputin in Transition
Frauds and Con-men in Countries in Transition from Communism
XLVIX. The Eureka Connection
How East and Central Europeans Defraud the Gullible West
L. The Treasure Trove of Kosovo
LI. Milosevic's Treasure Island
LII. Macedonia's Augean Stables,
or: Don't Hurry to Invest in Macedonia
LIII. The Macedonian Lottery
LIV. Crime Fighting Computer Systems and Databases
After the Rain
LV. The Author