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• Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds

  26-10-2023 18:00
  
  Secrecy and lax oversight mean illegal loggers and miners in Amazon can park billions in real estate and other assetsSecrecy and lax oversight have made the US a hiding place for dirty money accrued by environmental criminals in the Amazon rainforest, a report says.Illegal loggers and miners are parking sums ranging from millions to billions of dollars in US real estate and other assets, says the report, which calls on Congress and the White House to close loopholes in financial regulations that
  
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• Brazil slave trafficker’s links to top bank spark debate over reparations

  26-10-2023 12:00
  
  Researchers are at last revealing how slavery and the slave trade shaped the country’s institutionsOn 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish) docked in Rio de Janeiro and unloaded its expensive cargo: 422 Africans forcibly shipped across the Atlantic from Angola. It was the first slave shipment known to have been organised by José Bernardino de Sá, then a clerk at a Rio trading house.Over the following 25 years, undeterred by a law that theoretically made the slave
  
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