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MEDIA ALERT<\/span><\/h2>\n

Our managing partner Martin Kenney<\/a> is quoted today in The Mail on Sunday<\/a> about the fallout from a recent European Court of Justice<\/a> ruling that “public” or open beneficial ownership registers are incompatible with the right to privacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a result of that decision, authorities across the EU have been restricting open access to company registers. A bad thing?<\/p>\n

Not according to Martin and other experienced fraud fighters, who view the quest for complete transparency as noble, but possibly naive: crooks are skilled at using nominees and ‘straw men’ and if registers suffer from poor verification (such as the UK’s Companies House<\/a>) then the data they hold can be questionable.<\/p>\n

As Martin told the Mail on Sunday’s<\/em> City editor\u00a0Patrick Tooher:<\/p>\n

“Public registers are an affront to the right to privacy.<\/p>\n

“They also rarely have the intended effect of increasing effective enforcement.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Visit Martin’s many op-eds<\/a> on this subject for The FCPA Blog<\/a> to see more detail of his arguments.<\/p>\n

\u27a1\ufe0f Read the Mail on Sunday article here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For further information, please contact Nick Ryan Communications<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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