“Offshore trusts have long been used by China’s ultra-rich to tuck away hundreds of billions of dollars outside the country. Now, a move by Beijing to tax them has set off a rush to lawyers and a scramble for cash.” - @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/w...

China's super-rich 'in shock' and hunting for cash as Beijing issues surprise tax on offshore trusts

Beijing's move to tax offshore trusts, long used by China's ultra-rich to hold money, has set off a rush to lawyers and a scramble for cash.

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Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (BBC News story) Full incident report from the UK AI Security Institute www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.

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1/4 🇵🇭 It really matters who owns what. Recently in Manila, CIPE convened nearly 70 leaders from government, business, civil society, media, and international partners to explore how Beneficial Ownership Transparency (BOT) can strengthen integrity, competition, and security.

The USA remains deficient in terms of UBO data and is only partially compliant with rules on the availability of beneficial ownership information, according to the latest report from the OECD Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes #beneficialownership #UBO #AML

🚨 Breaking New report @cictar.bsky.social on tax behaviour US Big Tech company Palantir Benefitting from public money but avoiding paying fair taxes undermining finance for public services and public pensions @corporateeurope.org @taxobservatory.bsky.social www.epsu.org/article/pala...

Glasgow properties are ultimately owned by the head of an investment firm behind a Russian shipping hub. Researchers say the port sustains Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. https://www.theferret.scot/this-russian-depot-supplies-putins-war-in-ukraine-its-boss-has-a-scottish-property-portfolio/

New on OpenCheck: find out if an entity has won EU public contracts, thanks to open data from the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED). Example: opencheck.world?lei=969500MC... OpenCheck offers open-source customer due diligence risk checks, powered by the LEI, #opendata and #openstandards

New on OpenCheck: find out if an entity has won EU public contracts, thanks to open data from the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily (TED). Example: opencheck.world?lei=969500MC... OpenCheck offers open-source customer due diligence risk checks, powered by the LEI, #opendata and #openstandards

By 31 March 2026, 110,691 entities registered in Namibia had submitted their beneficial ownership information, equating to a 45% compliance rate, according to the latest report from the OECD Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission will host a Global Conference on Beneficial Ownership and Asset Recovery in November 2026 with a thematic focus on connecting the dots with the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard, enhanced interoperability and API-based data sharing boconference.cac.gov.ng

Sanctions have frozen the mansions of Russia's most notorious oligarchs - but Transparency International has identified 33 more London properties, worth £700m, still hiding in plain sight Read more: trib.al/1Mz0G3m

Hackers have illegally accessed and copied data from Liechtenstein's register of ​beneficial owners, compromising information relating to ‌about 31,000 companies, foundations and trusts, the principality's government said late on Sunday www.reuters.com/world/liecht... via @reuters.com

Liechtenstein says hackers access information on 31,000 legal entities

Hackers have illegally accessed and copied data from Liechtenstein's register of ​beneficial owners, compromising information relating to ‌about 31,000 companies, foundations and trusts, the principal...

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Conduct due diligence and risk checks on 3m+ companies using the Legal Entity Identifier, open data and open standards opencheck.world Visualise corporate ownership structures, screen connected people and investigate open-source intelligence on companies for free. #LEI #opendata #openstandards

OpenCheck — LEI-anchored due diligence

Open-source customer due diligence risk checks for any legal entity. Powered by GLEIF, OpenSanctions, national company registries and the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard.

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Conduct due diligence and risk checks on 3m+ companies using the Legal Entity Identifier, open data and open standards opencheck.world Visualise corporate ownership structures, screen connected people and investigate open-source intelligence on companies for free. #LEI #opendata #openstandards

OpenCheck — LEI-anchored due diligence

Open-source customer due diligence risk checks for any legal entity. Powered by GLEIF, OpenSanctions, national company registries and the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard.

opencheck.world

Thrilling Roman chariot races! Vladimir Putin's "sweet eyes"! The Orthdox Oligarch! Investigation uncovers deeper ties between the French family behind a £600m theme park coming to Oxfordshire and Russia's annexation of Crimea. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

From occupied Crimea to Oxfordshire: the Kremlin links to new £600m UK theme park

Exclusive: Puy du Fou worked with under-sanctions oligarch on plans for Crimea resort longer than disclosed, and later courted Iran and China

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New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...

Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy

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🔴 NEW: An investment vehicle managed by JP Morgan and state-backed firms from France, Norway and China own Scottish wind farms which have paid tens of millions in dividends this decade. Our latest: https://www.theferret.scot/scotland-wind-china-wall-street/

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

How a convicted Zimbabwean fraudster quietly bought his way into Kenya’s Sh375 Billion JKIA mega-deal (via Kenya Insights) kenyainsights.com/how-a-convic...

How A Convicted Zimbabwean Fraudster Quietly Bought His Way Into Kenya’s Sh375 Billion JKIA Mega-Deal

Nairobi — While Kenyans were still digesting the announcement that China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) had walked away with the Sh375.4 billion ($2.9 billion) tender to rebuild Jomo Kenya

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Austria planned to offer users with legitimate interest access to national beneficial ownership data from today in line with the Sixth Anti-Money Laundering Directive. But the draft legislation is still sitting with the country's Ministry of Finance www.parlament.gv.at/gegenstand/X... #6AMLD #UBO

Wirtschaftliche Eigentümer Registergesetz, Änderung; Wirtschaftliche Eigentümer Registergesetz | Parlament Österreich

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New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Beneficial ownership information on 480,360 German entities is missing from the country’s national Transparenzregister, according to a risk assessment released by the country’s ministries of finance and justice www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/D... #beneficialownership #UBO #AMLR #6AMLD

One of the world's largest illegal gambling networks sends hundreds of millions of crypto through an office in Dubai. It’s part of a $4 billion Iranian sanctions evasion hub reut.rs/4xi4bdM

Beneficial ownership information on 480,360 German entities is missing from the country’s national Transparenzregister, according to a risk assessment released by the country’s ministries of finance and justice www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/D... #beneficialownership #UBO #AMLR #6AMLD

Google has launched a new feature allowing Google Earth users to generate AI visualizations on top of the service's satellite imagery. The implications for disinformation could be huge -- fake renderings of blast craters in war zones, migrant camps approaching borders, etc...

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

404media.co

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: England and the other European members of Uefa will boycott Fifa’s tournaments if Gianni Infantino goes ahead with his plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors

Uefa to boycott World Cup in protest against Fifa sell-off

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Fifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but no mention of women’s game

Fifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but no mention of women’s game

* Fifa’s 25-page sales deck produced by JP Morgan * Reference made to doubling global tournaments Fifa’s sales pitch to persuade members to approve the sale of the World Cup’s commercial rights clearly states that their plans for financial growth will be achieved by staging more tournaments, having higher ticket prices and debt financing. A 25-page sales deck titled “Fifa Forward Enterprise Member Materials”, which has been seen by the Guardian, makes the case for the creation of a new company to run Fifa’s commercial operations, 20% of which would be sold to Joshua Kushner, a US investor who is the brother of Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Continue reading...

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A record breaking 22,734 written parliamentary questions were tabled during the last parliamentary session in the UK, according to @fantasticlife.bsky.social and @anyaso.bsky.social’s latest week notes

Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World@fantasticlife.bsky.social · last wk.

In what may come as something of a relief to our regular reader, this week's notes are considerably shorter than some of our previous efforts. Compiled, as ever, by Librarian @anyaso.bsky.social and I: ukparliament.github.io/ontologies/m...