Over at Boing Boing:
One of the pioneers of globalization has been organized crime. Their illicit businesses form a $ 2 trillion plus global industry supported by the criminal services industry: the lawyers, hedge fund managers, business registration agents, bankers and others who help hide, legitimize and launder illegal profits.
But increasingly around the world, journalists and civil society organizations have taken notice and are fighting back.
A handful of researchers from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project sit in front their computers in Sarajevo or Bucharest in Eastern Europe and assist investigative reporters from all over the world in untangling the complicated schemes used to hide the proceeds of the global drug trade or the stolen billions of corrupt dictators. This is the Investigative Dashboard (ID), the initial phase of a global research desk that gives journalists the tools and support needed to fight back...[continue reading]