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Publication date: 1 January 1998

Peter Maynard

The short answer is no. Notable examples of anti‐corruption laws are available. But there is probably no single example that one would elevate to a definitive universal model…

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The short answer is no. Notable examples of anti‐corruption laws are available. But there is probably no single example that one would elevate to a definitive universal model. This short briefing will focus first on the multilateral efforts of the Organization of the American States (OAS) against corruption and secondly, on the new anti money‐laundering legislation of the Bahamas with references to other major countries, as another perspective apart from the perspectives of other regions.

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Journal of Financial Crime, vol. 5 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-0790

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Publication date: 1 February 1997

Peter Maynard

The topic is extremely broad and requires definitions of civil liberties, privacy and balance, which this short paper will not undertake. From age to age, the pendulum has swung…

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The topic is extremely broad and requires definitions of civil liberties, privacy and balance, which this short paper will not undertake. From age to age, the pendulum has swung from, on the one hand, private property and private rights to, on the other hand, the powers of the police, and the public interest in the detection, prevention and punishment of crime. The experience with privacy varies from culture to culture. The question of balance arises, for example, in connection with search and seizure, the use of improperly obtained evidence, and the interception of communications. However, this paper touches on the penetration of bank secrecy, the Inter‐American Convention against Corruption of the Organization of American States (OAS), and a number of constitutional principles arising from the cases, especially the Bahamian case of Carlos Enrique Ledher‐Rivas aka Joe Ledher, a major Colombian drug lord. The latter case is reported as International Dutch Resources v Attorney General [1989] 1 LRB 357 (the Joe Ledher case).

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Journal of Money Laundering Control, vol. 1 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1368-5201

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Publication date: 1 April 2000

Peter D. Maynard

With the advent of the FATF blacklist and the US FinCen advisories, the problem of perception and reality has been exacerbated. The international financial centres (IFCs) claim…

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With the advent of the FATF blacklist and the US FinCen advisories, the problem of perception and reality has been exacerbated. The international financial centres (IFCs) claim that the legislation and infrastructure are in place, and that money laundering, which still takes place largely in the metropolitan centres, is under control in their jurisdictions. The mainland countries perceive that money laundering is taking place in the IFCs. The situation is not unlike the story of two blindfolded men touching an elephant: the first held the tail and thought that it was something dry and sinewy; the second touched the tip of the trunk and thought the creature was something moist and flexible. The truth was somewhere in the middle.

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Journal of Financial Crime, vol. 8 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-0790

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Publication date: 1 February 1998

Peter D. Maynard

There is no such thing as absolute bank secrecy, even in the offshore environment. Bank secrecy is a matter of degree, and ultimately is a myth rather than an absolute reality. A…

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There is no such thing as absolute bank secrecy, even in the offshore environment. Bank secrecy is a matter of degree, and ultimately is a myth rather than an absolute reality. A convenient typology is: ‘no‐tax’ havens, eg the Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman and Turks and Caicos Islands; and Mow‐tax' havens, which include most of the other countries in the region, such as Barbados.

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Journal of Money Laundering Control, vol. 1 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1368-5201

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Publication date: 1 April 2002

Peter D. Maynard

A lesson from the World Trade Center attack is that you do not define a religious, ethnic or racial group based on the bad people in that group. The vicious and unconscionable…

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A lesson from the World Trade Center attack is that you do not define a religious, ethnic or racial group based on the bad people in that group. The vicious and unconscionable acts of the terrorists do not mean that all Muslims and followers of Islam and all Arabs are terrorists. Similarly, the broader community should be defined in terms of noble accomplishments, such as human rights, instead of the negative and reprehensible possibilities that may take place.

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Journal of Money Laundering Control, vol. 5 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1368-5201

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Publication date: 1 January 1997

Peter D. Maynard

In the 1980s, the abuse of drugs had a serious impact on the Bahamas as on other societies. Drug trafficking had profound social, economic and political impact. Corruption and…

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In the 1980s, the abuse of drugs had a serious impact on the Bahamas as on other societies. Drug trafficking had profound social, economic and political impact. Corruption and bribery, drug‐related and otherwise, resulted in a number of commissions of inquiry.

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Journal of Financial Crime, vol. 4 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-0790

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Publication date: 1 April 1997

Benny S. Tabalujan

In recent times, there has been some disquiet within certain sectors of the Singapore business community over the role of auditors in detecting corporate fraud. The cause of this…

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In recent times, there has been some disquiet within certain sectors of the Singapore business community over the role of auditors in detecting corporate fraud. The cause of this concern can perhaps be attributed partly to the Barings collapse in February 1995 and the subsequent suggestions that the auditors of the Barings subsidiary in Singapore, Barings Futures Singapore Pte Ltd (BFS), may have been negligent in their audit work. More recently, in mid‐1996, a substantial locally listed company, Amcol Holdings Ltd (Amcol), was placed under judicial management amid rumours alleging possible misdeeds by senior executives and directors. The Amcol saga has, once again, focused some attention on the role of auditors and their duty to detect fraud in company accounts.

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Journal of Financial Crime, vol. 5 no. 2
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ISSN: 1359-0790

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Publication date: 1 July 1998

Clem Tisdell

Outlines the international travels of Clement Allan Tisdell in the period 1965‐1996 and an Australian journey made to Adelaide in 1962 for academic reasons and indicates the…

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Outlines the international travels of Clement Allan Tisdell in the period 1965‐1996 and an Australian journey made to Adelaide in 1962 for academic reasons and indicates the influence of these journeys on his publications, outlook and intellectual evolution. Emphasises how varied the life of an economist can be and the importance of international social contacts for academic development. Because of the extent of his travels, descriptions and analysis of most of his journeys are brief. Consequently, a longer story still remains untold.

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International Journal of Social Economics, vol. 25 no. 6/7/8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0306-8293

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Publication date: 7 April 2015

Andreas Vlachidis and Douglas Tudhope

The purpose of this paper is to present the role and contribution of natural language processing techniques, in particular negation detection and word sense disambiguation in the…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present the role and contribution of natural language processing techniques, in particular negation detection and word sense disambiguation in the process of Semantic Annotation of Archaeological Grey Literature. Archaeological reports contain a great deal of information that conveys facts and findings in different ways. This kind of information is highly relevant to the research and analysis of archaeological evidence but at the same time can be a hindrance for the accurate indexing of documents with respect to positive assertions.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper presents a method for adapting the biomedicine oriented negation algorithm NegEx to the context of archaeology and discusses the evaluation results of the new modified negation detection module. A particular form of polysemy, which is inflicted by the definition of ontology classes and concerning the semantics of small finds in archaeology, is addressed by a domain specific word-sense disambiguation module.

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The performance of the negation dection module is compared against a “Gold Standard” that consists of 300 manually annotated pages of archaeological excavation and evaluation reports. The evaluation results are encouraging, delivering overall 89 per cent precision, 80 per cent recall and 83 per cent F-measure scores. The paper addresses limitations and future improvements of the current work and highlights the need for ontological modelling to accommodate negative assertions.

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The discussed NLP modules contribute to the aims of the OPTIMA pipeline delivering an innovative application of such methods in the context of archaeological reports for the semantic annotation of archaeological grey literature with respect to the CIDOC-CRM ontology.

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Publication date: 1 April 1994

Andrew Leigh and Michael Maynard

Describes an approach to maximizing team performance which integratestraditional business methods with those of the performing arts. Definesthe ACE team as aligned, creative and…

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Describes an approach to maximizing team performance which integrates traditional business methods with those of the performing arts. Defines the ACE team as aligned, creative and exploring, and explains how the ACE Team Star Profile can be used to create a visual profile of a team′s strengths and development needs.

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Management Development Review, vol. 7 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0962-2519

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