SULLIVAN
The world’s chief in uncovering organized crime can be in Naples on Wednesday, Jan. 25 sharing his eye-opening, true tales of how his world community of journalists comply with the paths of criminals who launder trillions of {dollars} annually. This surprising determine represents 20% of the world’s financial system.
Drew Sullivan is the co-founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Since 2006, OCCRP has develop into one of many world’s largest investigative reporting organizations, producing greater than 60 cross-border investigations per 12 months. Their investigations uncover corruption that threatens democracy.
Imagine Solutions, in a partnership with Florida Gulf Coast University, is bringing the seminar, “Organized Crime & Corruption, A Multi-Trillion Dollar Industry,” to Southwest Florida on Jan. 25. The seminar begins at 5:30 p.m. on the Community School of Naples, G&L Theater. Reservations are required as seating is proscribed. To buy tickets, go to www.imaginesolutionsconference.com.
Mexican drug cartels are main suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and different illicit narcotics to the United States and all over the world, simply one of many subjects to be addressed by journalist Drew Sullivan on the Imagine Solutions seminar in Naples on Jan. 25. COURTESY PHOTO
During the 60-minute seminar Mr. Sullivan will share how the world’s most corrupt officers, legal organizations, and tycoons simply loot, launder, and conceal stolen cash for future use. The OCCRP, investigating unethical banks, regulation corporations, registration brokers, and lobbyists, present an in-depth understanding of main legal group’s actions the world over. The OCCRP’s strategies for monitoring corruption throughout borders exhibits how criminals, from Russia to Panama to Asia, get away with their legal actions.
The final 5 a long time have seen a dramatic globalization of organized crime and corruption now totaling trillions of {dollars} yearly. For instance, it’s estimated that Vladimir Putin and his inside circle of oligarchs have taken over $1 trillion from the Russian financial system over the previous 21 years.
One of OCCRP’s most well-known investigations is within the ebook, “Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice” by Bill Browder, founder, and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management. Mr. Browder was the biggest international investor in Russia till 2005. In 2009, his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was murdered in jail after uncovering a $230 million fraud dedicated by Russian authorities officers. Since then, Mr. Browder has been main a marketing campaign to expose Russia’s endemic corruption and human rights abuses.
Other noteworthy investigations embody:
The ‘Ndrangheta crime group: A outstanding Italian Mafia organized crime syndicate and legal society primarily based within the peninsular and mountainous area of Calabria, courting again to the late 18th century.
The Mexican Cartels: Mexican drug cartels are main suppliers of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and different illicit narcotics to the United States and all over the world. The cartels and the drug commerce gasoline rampant corruption and violence in Mexico, contributing to tens of hundreds of homicides within the nation annually.
The Hidden property of Vladimir Putin and his shut community of Russian Oligarchs: OCCRP’s Russian Asset Tracker challenge.
The Panama Papers: how opaque shell corporations, shadowy legal professionals and complicit banks are fixed events to among the greatest corruption scandals to conceal property.
The OCCRP Network web site informs greater than six million readers and viewers each month, and 200 million different readers and viewers have entry by legacy media that publishes its work. OCCRP is supported by grants by the United States Agency for International Development, the International Center for Journalists, the United States Department of State, the Swiss Confederation, Google Ideas, the Skoll Foundation, and the Knight Foundation.
Sullivan will share how these organizations and people function, and their bone-chilling effectiveness and rising success. OCCRP actions have led to:
¦ $7.3 billion in fines levied and property seized by authorities companies
¦ 510 arrests, indictments, or sentences
¦ 53 resignations or sackings of key figures, together with a president, prime minister, and CEOs of main worldwide company
¦ 423 governmental actions
¦ 171 civil actions
¦ 95 company actions
¦ 317 official investigations
Maybe you’ve had no concept of the breadth and scope of organized crime. Maybe you additionally weren’t conscious of OCCRP, the preeminent group all over the world investigating these organizations to us as people, our companies, and to our nation.
The value for the seminar is $70 per particular person. To buy tickets, go to www.imaginesolutionsconference.com.
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