
FACT Sheet: Business Case for Ending Anonymous Companies (February 2020)
The pervasive use of secret shell and front companies harms the broader economy, and more and more businesses are speaking out.
The pervasive use of secret shell and front companies harms the broader economy, and more and more businesses are speaking out.
Clark Gascoigne, the interim executive director of the FACT Coalition, spoke at the U.S. launch of the 2020 Financial Secrecy Index on February 19, 2020.
The National Trustee for North Dakota to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sent a letter to Senator Cramer endorsing the bipartisan ILLICIT CASH Act (S.2563), which would end the incorporation of anonymous companies in the U.S.
The National Trustee for North Dakota to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sent a letter to Senator Hoeven endorsing the bipartisan ILLICIT CASH Act (S.2563), which would end the incorporation of anonymous companies in the U.S.
Anonymous companies facilitate everything from corruption and money laundering to transnational organized crime, sanctions evasion, and terrorism — all of which directly harm U.S. foreign policy interests.
Anonymous companies provide human traffickers the secrecy they crave. Opaque ownership structures make it difficult to track the individuals involved, while providing plausible deniability for those who profit from human trafficking operations.