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From Countering Financial Crime to Criminalizing Civil Society: How the FATF Overstepped the Mark

08 May 2013

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"A powerful yet unaccountable global standard–setting body is helping repressive civil society regulations to spread and flourish across the globe. Ben Hayes lifts the lid on the Financial Action Task Force."

See: From Countering Financial Crime to Criminalizing Civil Society: How the FATF Overstepped the Mark (Open Society Foundations, link)

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