"Paradise Papers leak reveals secrets of world elite's hidden wealth"

Files from offshore law firm show financial dealings of the Queen, big multinationals and members of Donald Trump’s cabinet

"How Equatorial Guinea Turned Corruption into an Art Form"

For the past two decades, Equatorial Guinea has been one of Africa’s largest oil producers and on paper, it is a middle-income economy. Yet instead of spending the country’s oil riches on improving life for ordinary Equatorial Guineans, the government has squandered its enormous wealth on questionable infrastructure projects – highways to nowhere, empty 5-star hotels – where corruption is rife. A new Human Rights Watch report has found that a combination of gross mismanagement and high-level corruption has left the country’s health and education sectors on their knees, and among the worst on the continent. And as Researcher Sarah Saadoun tells Stephanie Hancock, with oil production in the country already in decline, the government has little time left to reverse course.

"South Africa: Democracy at Risk" - Barry Wood

South Africa’s President treats his country as his own personal fiefdom and that of his cronies

Golpe no Brasil: "New Political Earthquake in Brazil: Is It Now Time for Media Outlets to Call This a “Coup”?"

BRAZIL TODAY AWOKE to stunning news of secret, genuinely shocking conversations involving a key minister in Brazil’s newly installed government, which shine a bright light on the actual motives and participants driving the impeachment of the country’s democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. The transcripts were published by the country’s largest newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, and reveal secret conversations that took place in March, just weeks before the impeachment vote in the lower house was held. They show explicit plotting between the new planning minister (then-senator), Romero Jucá, and former oil executive Sergio Machado — both of whom are formal targets of the “Car Wash” corruption investigation — as they agree that removing Dilma is the only means for ending the corruption investigation. The conversations also include discussions of the important role played in Dilma’s removal by the most powerful national institutions, including — most importantly — Brazil’s military leaders.

As transcrições no Folha de S. Paulo

"Panama Papers" - Base de dados divulgada

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A guide to history's biggest data leak

"Law Firm’s Files Include Dozens of Companies and People Blacklisted by U.S. Authorities"

GlobGlobal law firm’s customers include suspected financiers of terrorism, nuclear weapons proliferators and gunrunnersal law firm’s customers include suspected financiers of terrorism, nuclear weapons proliferators and gunrunners.

"Volkswagen and the Future of Honesty"

If you used the term “business ethics” in the 1970s, when the field was just starting to develop, a common response was: “Isn’t that an oxymoron?” That quip would often be followed by a recitation of Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that corporate executives’ only social responsibility is to make as much money for shareholders as is legally possible.

"Latin America’s Anti-Corruption Crusade"

Even as much of Latin America engages in almost hyperbolic celebrations over the renewed diplomatic ties between Cuba and the United States, the continent is facing two major challenges. The first – declining economic growth, to less than 1%, on average, across the region – has been discussed at length, with the prevailing explanation being that China’s slowing economic growth has suppressed commodity prices and, thus, Latin America’s export revenues. But it is the second – the resurgence of corruption – that is proving most interesting.

Assim vai a Europa! - "España está enferma de corrupción, ¿se puede curar?"

"Filesa", "Naseiro", "Roldán", "Gürtel", "Bárcenas", "Nóos", "Pujol", "Púnica"... Podría contarse la Historia de las últimas décadas en Españasaltando de un caso de corrupción a otro. La reciente oleada de detenciones la ha colocado en el primer plano de la actualidad y ha difuminado la perspectiva temporal. La memoria puede ser frágil, pero las hemerotecas no. Los síntomas llevan a un diagnóstico claro: España está enferma de corrupción, pero ¿tiene cura, doctor?

"DISTO TUDO" - Verdadeiro serviço à população!

A Mariana Mortágua, deputada do Bloco de Esquerda, criou este blogue para partilhar tudo sobre os trabalhos da Comissão de Inquérito sobre o BES.

Obrigada Mariana!


A estória Disto Tudo. O blogue

As comissões de inquérito já não são novidade para ninguém. Dezenas e dezenas de pessoas e páginas aos milhares. Difícil não é ter o que dizer, ou mesmo descobrir factos novos. Difícil é fazer sentido de todas as descobertas, ligar todos os pontos e minúsculas informações para que, no fim, seja finalmente possível explicar – ainda que em versão simplificada – o que é que aconteceu com o BES/GES.

Este espaço não existe, em princípio, para impor narrativas ou interpretações. Mas não pode ser também uma soma de fragmentos, meras traduções técnicas. O fio do raciocínio que junta todas as pontas soltas é, quase sempre, o produto de uma leitura pessoal.

E é esta a declaração de interesses óbvia. As explicações técnicas aqui reproduzidas são esforços praticamente individuais, sem pretensões de infalibilidade; as interpretações são leituras dos factos, e não constituem, por si só, factos. Sempre que possível os textos serão acompanhados de fontes e documentos de apoio.

Para seguir!

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "HOW TO RIP OFF A BANK, ESPÍ­RITO SANTO STYLE", por Frances Coppola

I have been going through Banco Espírito Santo's half-year 2014 results. They make pretty grim reading. No, actually it's worse than that. They read like an instruction manual on how to rip off a bank.

"INVESTIMENTOS ANGOLANOS EM PORTUGAL" - 2

Os bons ofícios do “lóbi angolano”

"INVESTIMENTOS ANGOLANOS EM PORTUGAL" - 1

Lisboa fecha os olhos ao “dinheiro sujo” de Luanda

Livro Recomendado - "Da Corrupção à Crise, Que fazer?"

De Paulo de Morais

Demissão Já! - Corrupção e falta de respeito

Depois de ter anunciado a redução drástica de funcionários públicos, o mesmo governo reintegra um indivíduo acusado dos crimes de abuso de poder, violação de segredo de Estado e de acesso indevido a dados pessoais. De seu nome Silva Carvalho. Depois de pedir a exoneração, foi trabalhar para a empresa para a qual passou informações classificadas enquanto diretor dos Serviços de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa, continuando, como administrador da empresa privada que tinha favorecido, enquanto funcionário do Estado, a pedir dados aos operacionais que lhe eram próximos no serviço do Estado que dirigiu.

Só há uma solução: DEMISSÃO JÁ!

"Corruption in Angola, Money-Laundering in Portugal and the Impact on Human Rights"

Rather than addressing corruption in Africa in general, this brief paper focuses on a particular case study, Angola. The rationale for this analysis lies in the paradoxical combination of the following factors: for the past decade, the country has had the fastest growing economy in the world; it is the third-largest economy in Sub-Saharan Africa; it ranks among the most corrupt regimes worldwide and has some of the lowest levels of human development. In recent years, the national oil company Sonangol and Politically Exposed Persons (PEP’s) have invested billions of euros in the European Union, particularly in Portugal. - por Rafael Marques

Livro Recomendado - "Diamantes de sangue"

Rafael Marques

"Portugal continua sem combater corrupção"

Portugal continua sem combater a corrupção e aplicou apenas uma das 13 recomendações feitas pelo Conselho da Europa para melhorar a incriminação de suspeitos e a transparência do financiamento partidário, denunciou a associação cívica Transparência e Integridade (TIAC).

Sites a não perder! - "Maka Angola (Em defesa da democracia, Contra a corrupção)"

Maka Angola