Why Real Estate Remains a Magnet for Dirty Money

About this episode

The episode discusses the Opacity in Real Estate Ownership Index and its implications for corruption and money laundering in real estate.

In this episode of Integrity Insights, Filip is joined by Michael Hornsby and Elisabetta Marinoni, researchers working with Transparency International and the Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC), to discuss their new study: the Opacity in Real Estate Ownership (OREO) Index. The conversation explores how opaque real estate ownership structures enable corruption and money laundering, why data and legal frameworks both matter, and what their assessment of 24 jurisdictions reveals about global...

People in this episode

Host: Filip

Guests: Michael Hornsby, Elisabetta Marinoni

Topics covered

• real estate
• corruption
• money laundering
• data transparency
• legal frameworks
• global assessment

Keywords

• real estate
• dirty money
• corruption
• money laundering
• Transparency International
• OREO Index
• legal frameworks
• data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Transparency International, Anti-Corruption Data Collective

Books & works: Opacity in Real Estate Ownership (OREO) Index

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