Press Releases
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Vice-Presidential candidate Sandiaga Uno linked to payments of millions of dollars shifted out of Indonesian company into an obscure offshore firm New report links Sandiaga Uno to payments of at least US$43million from a major Indonesian coal company, Berau Coal, into an obscure offshore firm in the Seychelles02 April 2019
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£100bn of property in England and Wales is secretly owned, estimates show NGO Global Witness is giving evidence to a parliamentary committee, as it considers proposals to introduce a register of the real owners of UK properties and hears evidence on the impact of property ownership by anonymous companies17 March 2019
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Global Witness celebrates significant agreement and shift in mind-set from the EU on investor due diligence The European Parliament and Council have today reached a political agreement on a new set of rules requiring European investors such as banks, pension funds and insurers, to carry out due diligence07 March 2019
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New analysis shows illegal logging of the Peruvian Amazon is continuing at a rapid pace All this while there are alarming moves to weaken the agency meant to protect it from forest crime.17 January 2019
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Diamond industry fails to clean up its act The diamond industry must deliver on its promise that consumers can trust the diamonds they purchase are sourced, traded, and processed responsibly12 November 2018
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New investigation reveals systemic illegal logging by European company in the DRC New investigation reveals systemic illegal logging by major European company in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while Norway and France on brink of funding expansion of country’s industrial logging sector26 June 2018
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Shamed mining magnate Andrew Groves told ‘blatant and utter lie’ in bribery scandal comeback bid A controversial entrepreneur claims Liberia has cleared him of bribery allegations and hopes his mining licences will be relisted in London.15 April 2018
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Exxon complicit in oil sector corruption in Liberia A new Global Witness investigation released today has uncovered US oil giant Exxon’s complicity in oil sector corruption in Liberia, with the purchase of an oil block the company knew was tainted by corruption.29 March 2018
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Exxon purchase of Liberia’s corruption-tainted Block 13 likely enriched former Liberian officials The Liberian Government should investigate Exxon’s US$120 million oil deal and ensure the independence of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.29 March 2018
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New Democratic Republic of Congo mining law could leave the door open to corrupt deals Potential ad hoc application of the new mining law in Democratic Republic of Congo, plus weaknesses in its transparency and conflict of interest measures, may leave the country’s mining sector open to corrupt deals that could cost the country billions of dollars.12 March 2018
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South Sudan’s leadership uses state-owned oil company Nilepet to funnel millions into brutal security services and ethnic militias South Sudan’s state-owned oil company, the Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet), has fallen under the direct control of President Salva Kiir and his inner circle, and is being used to funnel millions in oil revenues to the country’s brutal security services and ethnic militias06 March 2018
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Convicted arms and conflict timber trafficker Guus Kouwenhoven arrested for role in Liberia’s civil war We welcome news that Guus Kouwenhoven, notorious Dutch trafficker of arms and conflict timber, has been arrested for his actions in fuelling and profiting from Liberia's civil war08 December 2017