{"id":4002,"date":"2020-11-26T20:49:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diskdrive33.com\/mks\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2020-11-26T20:50:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:50:48","slug":"ultimate-beneficial-ownership-registers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diskdrive33.com\/mks\/2020\/11\/26\/ultimate-beneficial-ownership-registers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Charge for Access to Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Registers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong>I do not agree with the concept of open (or public) company registers. This is not for any ideological reason. Rather, they are a flawed tool in combating corruption and recovering assets from money launderers and fraudsters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"\">But if we are to have them, and if they are heading our way, then we should consider making them accessible via the payment of a realistic fee. This will help bolster their robustness and the verification process. At present, that\u2019s often woefully lacking in some of the world\u2019s best-known register systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yet thanks to some very effective campaigning, ultimate beneficial ownership (UBO) of companies or land registers are being heralded as an effective tool to combat money laundering and corruption in the public mind. But that\u2019s often not the case. Why? Hear me out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Criminals can easily avoid revealing their true details in what are often <a href=\"https:\/\/diskdrive33.com\/mks\/2018\/09\/26\/martin-kenney-big-aml-scandal-points-back-to-uks-companies-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">poorly policed systems<\/a>, and where they have every incentive to use mechanisms to conceal their identities from exposure in a public forum.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>we should aim for controlled transparency<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Instead of completely open UBO registers, we should aim for <a href=\"https:\/\/fcpablog.com\/2020\/05\/13\/controlled-transparency-is-the-way-ahead-for-ubo-registers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">controlled transparency<\/a> with relevant authorities having access to UBO data in robust and verified registers, as happens in territories such as the British Virgin Islands (BVI), whose registers are fairly reliable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If that\u2019s not to be the case, then the only alternative is to massively bolster the verification process around public registers (as the U.K. has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-vision-for-companies-house-set-out-in-2020-25-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">announced<\/a> for its Companies House system), and employ many more staff to help monitor them, which requires setting a realistic fee for accessing company information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An old friend of mine, Professor Michael Levi of Cardiff University, and his colleague, criminology Professor Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/biv.com\/article\/2020\/06\/public-registries-combat-money-laundering-should-be-free-experts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">offered a counterargument<\/a> to mine at an online Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. They believe that public access to such registers should be free. Their position relates in part to a decision by the B.C. government to make an open public register of land ownership available free of charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One of the professors\u2019 arguments contradicts my position head-on, countenancing open access so that investigative journalists can sift through information at their leisure. Professor Levi says: \u201cA public registry that is online and available to the public shouldn\u2019t automatically have any extra costs attached to it.\u00a0In which case, the argument for charging is weak. There isn\u2019t much point in having a public registry if it\u2019s so expensive that people can\u2019t use it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If we are going to disregard a person\u2019s right to privacy, why do we have privacy laws at all?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">If we allow open UBO registers, an individual\u2019s right to privacy would be disregarded. Members of the public \u2014 and this includes investigative journalists \u2014 should not be able to sit themselves down in front of a computer screen and nose around in another person\u2019s business. This disregard for a person\u2019s confidential business is only applied selectively when it supports the position of those advocating open UBO registers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If we are going to disregard a person\u2019s right to privacy where these registers are concerned, why do we have privacy laws at all? If we have nothing to hide (the go-to phrase for those advocating open public registers), then why don\u2019t we allow people open access to our bank accounts, our finances and our personal income tax returns? Why do we have data protection laws? And why is this quest for disclosure limited to open public registers?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">To gain some insight into why the B.C. government is venturing down this route, you will see vocal support from the campaigning NGO, Transparency International (TI).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">TI does a great deal of valuable work, but like many similar campaign groups, it appears wedded to the concept of fully open company registers. In one of TI\u2019s reports, titled <em>Opacity<\/em>, it says: \u201cBeneficial ownership transparency is the single most important tool for fighting money laundering and other financial crime in the real estate sector and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">How many of TI&#8217;s members would grant public access to their bank accounts and personal data on the basis that their lives are an open book?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Currently, the government of B.C. is contemplating a charge of $5 per check of the land ownership register. Surprisingly, even this nominal fee is meeting a degree of resistance. Professor Levi told the online commission: \u201cThere isn\u2019t much point in having a public registry if it\u2019s so expensive that people can\u2019t use it. The more you charge for those inquiries, the less investigative journalism would be conducted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The authors touch on the issue of the U.K.\u2019s Companies House and <a href=\"https:\/\/fcpablog.com\/2018\/10\/02\/martin-kenney-crooks-are-predictably-avoiding-open-company-r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">its shortcomings<\/a> over the poor quality of publicly available information, due to the organization\u2019s lack of strong data verification processes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>why not charge a realistic fee to access the information?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">So, if we are to see open public UBO registers, then why not charge a realistic fee to access the information, and then use this money to employ more staff? Not only will this maintain a degree of privacy for individuals, but it will also self-fund the authentication process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Could this be a common sense solution to a complex problem? Public registers would earn their keep and satisfy the wants of both camps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>The views expressed in this article are the author\u2019s own.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Martin Kenney is Managing Partner of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/diskdrive33.com\/mks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\">Martin Kenney &amp; Co.<\/a><em>, Solicitors, a specialist investigative and asset recovery practice based in the BVI, focused on multi-jurisdictional fraud and grand corruption cases.<\/em> <em>In 2014 he was the recipient of the ACFE\u2019s highest honor: the Cressey Award for life-time achievement in the detection and deterrence of fraud. In 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 he was chosen as a global elite \u201cThought Leader\u201d by Who\u2019s Who Legal and also selected as the number one offshore asset recovery lawyer worldwide during 2017 and 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1606422722606_618\" class=\"\"><em>Kenney is a featured speaker at the upcoming virtual Fraud Conference Canada. All sessions have been announced and registration is now open.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acfeinsights.com\/acfe-insights\/why-we-should-charge-for-access-to-ultimate-beneficial-ownership-registers\">This article originally appeared in ACFE Insights<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPINION: If we\u2019re going to have public company registers, then make them accessible by a realistic fee \u2013 and bolster their robustness \u2013 writes Martin Kenney for ACFE Insights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[90,248,132,259,69],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-acfe","tag-company-register","tag-martin-kenney","tag-public-register","tag-ubo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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