'To Bless All Mankind' September 28, 2015 Issue

Global drive on corruption should start at home

The Monitor’s Editorial Board

Originally printed in The Christian Science Monitor, July 28, 2015.

In June, British Prime Minister David Cameron was quick to cast the first stone following the bribery scandal at FIFA, the world soccer governing body. He urged other world leaders to end the “international taboo over pointing the finger” at corrupt organizations. He cited an estimate that graft adds 25 percent to the cost of aid spent in poor countries.

His stone did not need to go very far.

On Tuesday, Mr. Cameron vowed to expose the “dirty money” spent by foreigners who buy luxury properties in Britain as havens for their “plundered” wealth. He plans a new register that will reveal the names of people behind “anonymous shell companies” that purchase expensive homes and then rent them out, often in residential areas near Parliament.

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