Name: Meet global corruption's hidden players
Uploaded: 2013-07-08T15:12:24Z
Duration: 14 min 13 s
Description: When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture. In a blistering, eye-opening talk (with several specific examples), she details how global corruption trackers follow the money -- to some surprisingly familiar faces.

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A Crude Awakening

When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture. In a blistering, eye-opening talk (with several specific examples), she details how global corruption trackers follow the money -- to some surprisingly familiar faces.

Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players

Meet global corruption's hidden players

Gooch exposes the global web of corruption, from African dictators to Western enablers, revealing a shadowy world of illicit wealth.

Transparency laws cover two-thirds of global oil and mining, marking progress against corruption, yet there's a long road ahead.

Through gritty investigation, Gooch unveils how anonymous shell companies enable theft from the poor, demanding global action.