FBI gathers clues in massive Goldman Sachs money scandal

February 20, 2016

"“My sources within the US government have told me that they are looking into 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) on all fronts and are actively acquiring documents and identifying witnesses from around the world,” international investigator L. Burke Files, who heads up an antifraud agency, told The Post. “They are not interested in fines this time,” Files added, without elaborating."

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Cash crimes are the stuff of Hollywood movies

L.B. Files
President
The American Anti-Corruption Institute (AACI)
Tempe, AZ 

February 17, 2016. The Financial Times published a letter submitted by L.B.Files. Part of what was published is stated below. 

"Sir, Peter Sands, the former chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank, has claimed that removal of high-denomination bank notes will deter crime. This is nonsense.

After more than 25 years of investigating fraudsters and now corrupt persons in more than 90 countries, I can tell you that only in the extreme minority of cases was cash ever used — even in corruption cases. A vast majority of the funds moved involved bank wires, or the purchase and sale of valuable items such as art, antiquities, vessels or jewellery."

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Certified Anti-Corruption Manager (CACM) News and Update

The board of advisors approved earlier last month to continue providing the grandfathering provision of the CACM. For more information, please visit our website at http://theaaci.com/cacm-credintial.html

The AACI and Texas A&M University

Bruce George Interview

The complete an hour-long interview with Rt. Hon. Bruce George, an exceptional election fraud expert and British politician who served in the UK parliament for more than 36 years. Rt. Hon. Bruce George is a member of The AACI board of advisors.

The AACI and Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, TX, look forward to additional collaboration, cooperation, and the development of our innovative project leading toward becoming the world leader in corruption prevention with the Certified Anti-Corruption Executive (CACE) credential.This is a world changing executive development experience, the only one dedicated to real-world solutions to the prevention of corruption in the first place,  - not just fighting corruption.

For more information, contact us at academia@THEAACI.com

The AACI and The Arab American University (AAUJ)

Press Release

On September 6, 2015, The AACI and the Arab American University (AAUJ), Jenin - Palestine, signed a multi-faceted general agreement to establish and facilitate educational experiences between The American Anti-Corruption Institute (AACI) and AAUJ in order to support their students and faculty members.

The AACI and AAUJ agree to promote mutually beneficial activities in the areas of education, research and other relevant issues.  Such cooperation may include, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Conduct Co-Research in the Middle East
2. Conduct lectures at AAUJ
3. Participate mutually in conferences of either party
4. Empower AAUJ students to play a visible and effective role in preventing fraud and corruption in the Palestinian society:   The AACI will work with AAUJ to establish a student association titled “The AACI Students Association”; the second of its kind in the Middle East.
5. Launch innovative local and regional corruption prevention initiatives

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The Second Anti-Corruption Case Contest at Qatar University: VW Diesel Gate ©

Press Release

On December 22, 2015, The AACI and Qatar University concluded the second anti-corruption case contest at Qatar University, Doha - Qatar.  This is the first of its kind in the Middle East and Africa. The AACI’s Student Association engagement was exemplary. We currently deliver the anti-corruption case contest in each semester at Qatar University.

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Remarks by World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim at the World Government Summit

World Bank Group President Jim Yong KimInclusive Governance: The Foundation for Building Human Opportunity and ProsperityDubai, United Arab Emirates

As Prepared for Delivery
February 8, 2016
The speech of Dr. Jim Yong Kim at the World Government Summit is remarkable and touched on several crucial and critical socioeconomic issues that are directly related to preventing fraud and corruption. Quality leadership, good governance, among other things, are always needed for sustainable development. It is our belief that this speech should be a pillar of any kind of good governance.
As good governance is not a new phenomenon, we quote part of what Dr. Kim mentioned in his speech:

" Governments that operate in opaque, exclusive and unaccountable ways, or fail to empower local authorities, often plant the seeds of discontent. When governments don’t allow the public to participate in decisions, they breed suspicion; when governments make decisions on the basis of favoritism, social or ethnic divisions, discrimination or corruption, citizens become deeply aggrieved."
"The demands for good governance, in fact, are not a recent phenomenon. The demands are rooted in the traditions and history of many cultures, including the Arab and Islamic world.  The scholar Imam Muslim recounted words said by the prophet, quote, “One whom I appoint to a public office must render account on everything, big and small.” The Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun wrote in his opus, the Muqqaddimah, that the social compact between the individual and tribes was a sacred bond based on mutual accountability, protection, and proper and reliable delivery of such basic services as security and justice.  Ibn Khaldun said the worst kind of state is a tyranny wherein government usurps property rights and rules with injustice against the rights of men."
"Another inspiring figure to me is the Palestinian intellectual and writer Edward Said. His book Orientalism, which is largely about how Westerns perceive the East, had a profound impact on my thinking. He also focused on the power of good governance. He once wrote, and I quote:

“Power, after all, is not just military strength.  It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd’s flock.”"

Read the complete speech.