Bribe, Swindle or Steal
Alexandra Wrage, president of TRACE, interviews luminaries in the field of financial crime, including bribery, fraud, money-laundering, insider trading and sanctions.
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Repression Across Borders (opens the original)
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Yana Gorokhovskaia of Freedom House joins the podcast to talk about transnational repression, the increasingly common abuse and intimidation by states of their citizens living abroad. Yana discusses Jamal Khashoggi, murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and Roman Protasevich, whose plane was forced to land in Belarus where he is still being held, but also refers to the hundreds of other cases that don't make the news. Freedom House has released an excellent report on this problem that can
Siemens' Bribery Scandal (opens the original)
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Peter Solmssen , former GC of Siemens tells the story. "They didn't need to pay bribes. We were perplexed."
The Smartest Guys in the Room (opens the original)
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Peter Elkind tells the story of the Enron financial scandal; it's a timely refresher on that corporate disaster as the Trump Administration rolls back financial regulations.
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