She is an entrepreneur and founder/president of W-T-W Women and Finance. She is continuing her husband’s joint work. UAML is now being run as a non-profit association under the scientific international leadership of Prof. James Henry.

Dagmar Frank has set up a database/cloud system for UAML. The data is structured as follows:

• public
• member / for UAML members only
• confidential  /with NDA/Fee for investigative authorities; investigative journalists and investigative authorities

A team of international experts, conducts investigative research into money laundering and promotes the enforcement of laws.

UAML is dedicated to the prevention of crime and the effective combating of money laundering.

The focus is on organized crime, terrorist financing, national and international corruption, and tax evasion, particularly in connection with international tax havens.

Andreas Frank, who died in June 2024, fought against corruption and money laundering for 30 years. He founded the United Against Money Laundering initiative.

His comprehensive data collection has been integrated into a centralized database, with additional relevant data being added continuously. The database is made available for international use.

He is a leading investigative economist, attorney, teacher, and activist with a strong focus on front-line global justice issues like kleptocracy, tax havens, and the climate crisis.
In the private sector, Mr. Henry has served as Director of Economic Research (chief economist), McKinsey & Co.; VP Strategy, IBM/Lotus Development; Business Development Manager, Chairman’s Office (Jack Welch), GE; and Senior Consultant, Monitor Company. He is founder of Sag Harbor Group, a strategy consulting firm that has served such leading clients as ABB, Bell Labs, Charles Allen & Co., the Calvert Fund, Cemex, ChinaTrust, the Joint Caribbean Task Force (Scotland Yard/FBI), IBM/Lotus, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Swedish Power Board, TransAlta, Volvo, and Daikin.

In the pro bono world Mr. Henry is a Global Justice Fellow and a Lecturer on the Yale faculty, where for 6 years he has co-authored a weekly seminar for Yale graduate students and upper-year undergraduates on”Global Justice Problems” – urgent interrelated matters like the global warming, tax dodging, kleptocracy, the future of democracy, the global art industry, and “dangerous technologies” (AI, fintech, nuclear power) that cut across national boundaries. He has also served as a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Investment, where he has led seminars on international tax policy, the global haven industry, the remittance cartel, and “fintech” for the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

Mr. Henry has been active “change maker.” He has helped to start and foster many activist NGOs. In 2003-4 he was one of the founding principals of TJN USA and the Tax Justice Network, a global NGO that led the fight against financial secrecy jurisdictions (“tax havens”), offshore tax avoidance by major corporations and wealthy individuals, and kleptocracy. He served as a TJN Senior Advisor (2005-2022), a global board member of TJN (2005-13) and TJN US (2005-present), and a liaison to
the US tax reform organization Americans for Tax Fairness.

From 2009 to 2015 he served as a board member of Long Island University. Since the 1990s he has also been a pro bono environmental lawyer and a ACLU/ NYCLU cooperating attorney in New York’s EDNY, serving on NYCLU’s Suffolk County board. In 2020-21, he served as a Board Member of Amnesty International USA, on its Finance and Strategy Committees. In 2021-23 he was a co-founder of The Institute for Access to Public Information (https://foia-foil.com), a NYS 501c3 devoted to litigating FOIA cases. In 2024 he is serving as Chairman and a co-founder of UAML.org, a global coalition dedicated to fighting money laundering.

In 2020-21, in the wake of New York’s pandemic-induced fiscal crisis, Mr. Henry helped to organize a campaign to have New York State stop rebating $15 billion per year of badly-needed state tax revenues that NYS collects from its .1% stock transfer tax on Wall Street investors — most of whom are not NYS residents. This very practical progressive sales tax secured majority support in the NYS Senate and Assembly, but to date (2024) it has been unable to overcome the “capture” of the hierarchies of both major parties in NYS by Wall Street. This organizing effort did encourage the revival of a global campaign for a “financial transactions tax” (“FTT”) in the US, the EU, and Asia.

From 2014 to the present he has been a key leader of the QPAM Coalition, a group of experts from six countries that has encouraged the US DOL to enforce its laws against criminal banks that advise US pensions funds. In 2024, for this year’s G20 in Brazil, Mr. Henry assembled an international coalition of experts on global warming, reforestation, and soil conservation to propose a “Global Reforestation Fund,” financed by a .1% global FTT, to promote soil conservation and cool the planet
directly.
As an investigative economist with a global perspective, Mr. Henry is a leading practitioner of the “to the frontlines” school of reporting. He has written numerous pioneering investigative articles and books about international private banking, offshore havens, debt, capital flight, development, leading kleptocrats, and climate finance. Since the 1970s, he has conducted first-hand investigations of corruption, corporate chicanery, tax dodging, and debt in dozens of developing countries and havens,
including the Philippines, South Africa, Angola, Kenya, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Panama, Honduras,  Guatemala, Haiti, the Bahamas, Barbados, Switzerland, Delaware, and the Cayman Islands.

In the 1980s he authored the American Bar Association’s first full-length analysis of US tax compliance. His award-winning books (Banqueros y Llavadolares. (Tercer Mundo, 1996) and The Blood Bankers. (Basic Books, 2003, 2005, 2014)) provided the first detailed investigations of the global underground economy and the rise of the global haven industry. He was the principle author of The Price of Offshore Revisited (July 2012/2013,2016, TJN), a seminal work on unrecorded offshore private wealth whose estimates have recently (June 2020) been validated by the OECD. His original reporting has appeared in many
leading publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Time, Business Week, the Nation, the New Republic, the Atlantic, The Financial Times, the Economist, Jornal do Brasil, the Philippines Inquirer, La Nacion, El Pais, The American Interest (Contributing Editor) and DCReport.Org (Senior Investigative Editor). In 2010 he was named the Edward R. Murrow Fellow in Investigative Journalism at The Fletcher School of Diplomacy. In 2016 he was a leading commentator and analyst on the ICIJ’s Panama Papers, and served as an member of the Iceland Special Commission
that investigated the role of illicit offshore assets in Iceland’s 2007-2009 economic collapse. In 2019 he was named a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale University. In June 2021 he received one of two TJN/AABA (UK) Annual Awards for Contributions to Tax Justice. In 2017-24 he has been a key advisor on several OCCRP investigations of kleptocracy, including its 2022 “Suisse-gate” investigation.

Mr. Henry has testified as an invited expert numerous times before the US Congress, the UN, the EU Parliament, and the FBI’s International Corruption Unit on global tax havens, the underground economy, and tax justice. He has also presented many TED talks, and has been a featured commentator on leading media outlets, including the BBC, NPR, CBC, Australia ABC, Zembla, ZDF, most US TV networks (ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN,CNBC, and MSNBC), and Al Jazeera. He also played a leading on-air role in several feature-length documentary films, including “The Giant Beast That Is the Global Economy,'” (Amazon Prime, April 2019); “The Finance Curse,” (Nick Shaxson, et al, 2024); “The Price We Pay” (Harold Crooks, TIFF, 2014), and “We’re Not Broke” (Charles Davidson, Sundance, 2013).

Born and raised in Minnesota, Mr. Henry is an honors graduate of Winona Public High School, Harvard College (Magna Cum Laude, Social Studies ’72; Detur Prize; Phi Beta Kappa, National Merit Scholar, Chairman, Student Advisory Committee, Kennedy Institute of Politics); Harvard Law School (JD.,Honors,1976); the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (MS, ABD, Economics, 1978); a Danforth Fellow; one of the original “Nader Raiders,” a member of the New York Bar since 1979, and an Adirondacks ’46R. He and his family are based in New York.

Global Justice Fellow, Yale U.

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“I am an expert in Swiss bank wrongdoing and represent hundreds of clients worldwide. I have assisted law enforcement and government agencies, and government securities and banking regulators in many countries at a high level. In my criminal investigations, I have lawfully obtained criminal investigation files from several countries.

My team has used specialized procedures to obtain internal banking documents not available to foreign law enforcement agencies. I have personally met with high-ranking law enforcement officials in the USA and several foreign countries as well as Swiss banking Legal and Compliance Departments to share the results of my investigations.

Despite multiple offers to work with the banks’ internal fraud investigation teams and supply them with overwhelming evidence of very serious wrongdoing, all such offers were declined. In parallel with trying to assist, I cooperated fully with multiple US and foreign law enforcement agencies.

I similarly offered such help to the Swiss securities and banking regulator FINMA and went to their offices in Berne Switzerland. All such efforts were unsuccessful. They refused to accept my reports (except for a few minor letters). I had to depart their office in Berne merely leaving a calling card. I likewise attempted to alert the Swiss government to the extremely serious problems which had been unequivocally established. They promised that my initial summary letter would be acted upon. However, my team’s last communication with the Swiss embassy in Washington DC was rudely rejected – and my assistant was told stop calling them. I warned every member of the Swiss parliament around 30 times over the 2 years before Credit Suisse’s collapse about its impending doom but was ignored.

I was instrumental in instigating a public hearing by the US Department of Labor to consider Credit Suisse’s waiver application to continue managing pension funds as a QPAM under ERISA. I travelled to Washington DC and testified at the hearing. I organized the meeting from which UAML subsequently emerged. I have met with and discussed the nature of Swiss banking wrongdoing with scores of attorneys and believe that I have not yet met anyone with such knowledge and background as I possess.

Undoubtedly, my assistance in these matters has made a major impact for the better and a substantial improvement in understanding, regarding how we should deal with high level corporate wrongdoing.”

He is Chair of the international non-governmental organisation Stamp out Poverty and director of the Balanced Economy Project.

He is a founder member of the Governance Board of Tax Inspectors Without Borders (a joint UNDP/OECD programme). He co-founded the Tax Justice Network and directed its activities from 2003 to 2016.

He previously headed the government economic advisory service of Jersey. This work covered policy areas including financial regulation and corporate governance.

Trained both as an internal auditor / system analyst and economist, he has also worked as a documentary maker, film reviewer, publisher, and political activist.

John’s research on offshore finance and the Finance Curse has been widely published in books and academic journals, and he has taken part in many film and television documentaries and award-winning radio programmes.

He produced The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire (2017), and The Finance Curse (release 2026)

He is a Senior Fellow of the Ashoka Foundation and Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts.

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Cristina has had her own painful experiences with money laundering and financial crime in Portugal.
At the time, she turned to the UAML for support and advice.

Her professional and technical expertise strengthens our board, as she continues to develop the website and manages our finances in collaboration with our tax experts.

Her conclusion, drawn from her own story and from what she has learnt and experienced at uaml: every single person is a victim of money laundering and financial crime, even if only indirectly.

She was Member of the European Parliament for 3 terms (2004-2019), as a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party and, therefore, of the S&D – Socialist and Democrats Group.

She served in the Foreign Affairs Committee, Development Committee, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and in the SubCommittee for Security and Defence and un the SubCommittee on Human Rights.

She was member of the Delegation for the Relations with the United-States, Délégation for the Relations with Iraq and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

She headed several EU/ EP Electoral Election Missions (Ethiopia, Timor Leste, Sudan, Myanmar, Georgia, among others).

She served in the Special inquiry Committees on the CIA Flights, on TAX1 and TAX2 (Luxleaks scandal) and was VicePresident of the Inquiry Committees on PanamaPapers, on ParadisePapers (TAX3) and was S&D coordinator at the Special Committee on Terrorism (TERR).

She was Rapporteur for Libya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the PCA with Indonesia, on the “EU CBRN Action Plan” report, the “Maritime Dimension of CSDP” report, on the “Human Rights and corruption” report, on “Big Data and Fundamental Rights” among other files.

She actively campaigned for a EU Magnitsky Act.

Ana Gomes’ academic background is Law. She was a career diplomat since joining the Portuguese Foreign Service in 1980 and suspended her diplomatic career in 2003 to enter party politics.

She served in the Portuguese Missions at the UN in Geneva and New York and also in the Embassies in Tokyo and London.

Between 1999 and 2003 she was Head of the Portuguese Interests Section and then Ambassador in Jakarta, where she played a role in the process leading up to the independence of Timor Leste and in the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Portugal and Indonesia.

Today she continues her political activism as a campaigner for human rights, integrity and transparency in public life, against corruption and organized crime. She keeps a weekly programme of commentary at Portuguese TV channel SIC Notícias (“The opinion of Ana Gomes”).

She is married, one daughter, 3 step children and 7 grand-children.

Diplomatic Career

1980 – Entered the Diplomatic Service through public competition, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon

1982-1986 – Diplomatic Advisor of the President of the Republic, General Ramalho Eanes, Lisbon

1986-1989 – First Secretary at the Portuguese Permanent Representation at the UN and other International Organisations (responsible for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law), Geneva

1989-1991 – Counsellor at the Portuguese Embassy in Tokyo

1991-1994 – Political Counsellor at the Portuguese Embassy in London

1992 – Member of the European Union Presidency team working on the Middle East Peace Process

1992 -1994 – Member of the Portuguese Delegation at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva

1994 – Head of the Europe Unit, Political Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon

1995 -1996 – Chief of Staff of the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lisbon

1997-1998 – Coordinator of the Portuguese Delegation at the UN Security Council, New York

1999 – 2000 – Head of the Portuguese Interests Section at the Embassy of the Netherlands, Djakarta

2000 – 2003 – Ambassador of Portugal in Indonesia, Jakarta

Political Activities

Ana Gomes has been a member of the Socialist Party since March 18, 2002.

2002 – Elected Member of the National and Political Committees of the Socialist Party
2003 – 2004 – National Secretary for External Relations of the Socialist Party
2004 – 2009 – Socialist Member of the European Parliament and Member of the National Committee of the Socialist Party
2011 – Member of the Political Committee of the Socialist Party

Academic Background

1979 – Law Degree, Classical University of Lisbon
1981 – Community Law Course, National Institute of Administration, Lisbon
1988 – Summer course at the International Institute for Human Rights, University of Strasbourg

Publications

Numerous articles published in the ‘Courrier Internacional’, ‘Diário de Notícias’, ‘Expresso’, ‘Jornal de Leiria’, ‘Jornal de Notícias’, ‘Público’ and ‘Visão’.
Book ‘Todo-o-Terreno – 4 Anos de Reflexões’ (RCP Edições, November 2008, Lisbon)

Awards

Ruth Pearce Award for Human Rights by Human Rights NGOs, Geneva, 1989
Personality of the Year Award – 1999, ‘Expresso’ weekly newspaper, Lisbon, 1999
Personality of the Year Award – 1999, Association of International Correspondents, Lisbon, 1999
Human Rights Award of the Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese parliament), 1999
Activist of the Year – 2008, ‘The Parliament Magazine’, Brussels, 2008

Membership in Civil Society Organisations

Member of the of the Student Union, Classical University of Lisbon, Lisbon (1974 – 1976)
Member of the Board of the Union of Portuguese Diplomats (1982 – 1986 and 1994 – 1996)
Member of the Portuguese chapter of Amnesty International
Member of International Development NGOs CIDAC and Engenho & Obra
Member of the Portuguese Association of Women Jurists
Member of the Advisory Board of the Security and Defence Agenda

Decorations

Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ, awarded by President Jorge Sampaio in 2000
Others (Portuguese and foreign)