Increasing global attention is being paid to the spaces, and spatially-tied institutions, permitting, enabling and accelerating flows of illicit finance. This is, in large part, a result of the increasing attention being given to questions of wealth and inequality. Illicit financial flows are derived from organised and other criminal activity, tax evasion, and money laundering that is spatially concentrated in key cities, in tandem with related geographies of tax and offshore systems. This session will focus on recent research in this area to help develop a spatial imaginary of illicit finance.
