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  • Cyprus leaked docs - investigation into Golden Visas

    Posted by · August 25, 2020 5:39 PM

    If you are working on/interested in Beneficial Ownership in relation to IFFs - specifically the Golden Visa phenomenon practiced by Cyprus, Malta, Lativia etc - this may be of interest.  
    Al Jazeera in partnership with Global Witness and TI is starting to release a trove of leaked documents pertaining to Cyprus' Golden visa Programme. It has an interactive map where you can see where wealth is escaping. The risks to the rights of women and other marginalised groups are not the focus, but clearly they are to be investigated and this seems to provide some important evidence of lost revenues. TJN submitted a shadow report to CEDAW in 2018 focusing on the Golden Visa issue. Here is the interactive chart 

    https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2020/cyprus-papers/index.html  

    Your contact point at TJN on this: Liz Nelson