School of Law When: Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Where: Online, The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) is delighted to welcome Professor Kristian Lasslett (University of Ulster) for the talk Looting the North, Looting the South: Investigating Transnational Corruption. The online event will be chaired by Dr. Thomas MacManus (Queen Mary School of Law). The world of global elites and wealth management is largely hidden from public inspection. The forces which undermine democracy - lack of transparency, opaque circles of influence, informal decision making, monetisation of politics, polarisation of power - are also a boon to all manner of corrupt transactions that game government and markets to engorge the power and wealth enjoyed by practitioners. Working with civil society and journalists, Professor Kristian Lasslett has been investigating bribery, racketeering, fraud, misappropriation, and market manipulation in Uzbekistan and Papua New Guinea, prosecuted by international coalitions of state-corporate actors, employing the financial and corporate machinery available in the UK, Switzerland, Singapore, the US and Australia. In this seminar, Professor Lasslett will discuss the methods used to interrogate the transnational coalition of actors working together across multiple jurisdictions to steal resources, manipulate markets, and launder the proceeds of crime, and some of the key findings from this investigative work.