Tagged with Professor Jason Sharman

G20 leaders have an opportunity to make a real impact in the fight against untraceable ‘shell’ companies when they meet in Brisbane later this year, a Griffith University researcher has claimed. Professor Jason Sharman, from Griffith’s Centre for Governance and Public Policy, said there has never been a better time to crack down on the […]

One of the country’s leading political science researchers has urged the federal government to act on an OECD survey which ranks Australia among the least effective in stemming the flow of dirty money from overseas. Professor Jason Sharman, Deputy Director of Griffith University’s Centre for Governance and Public Policy, says the survey released just before […]

Australia and other leading economic nations are playing an unwitting role in hiding illegal money, even ranking worse than some of the world’s more infamous tax havens. A new study led by Griffith University researcher Professor Jason Sharman has found the constraints around forming potentially misleading shell companies are less rigorous in Australia, Canada, the […]

All organized crime is driven by profit and facilitated by financial secrecy, while terrorism also depends on secret funding. For large sums of dirty money there is no better device than an untraceable shell company for providing this secrecy. This paper reports the results of an experiment soliciting offers for prohibited untraceable shell companies. Our […]