The press release of 1 December 2011 reproduces, inside a block quotation of the blog post, a passage asking that countries make it harder 'for corrupt public officials like al-Asad to smuggle stolen assets out of their countries'. The study itself makes no finding about Syria in its narrative and names no Syrian.
Claim ID
CH2-012
Exact or summary claim
The press release of 1 December 2011 reproduces, inside a block quotation of the blog post, a passage asking that countries make it harder 'for corrupt public officials like al-Asad to smuggle stolen assets out of their countries'. The study itself makes no finding about Syria in its narrative and names no Syrian.
Destination
02-numbers-that-fail
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
SRC-041; SRC-037
Source type
Institutional press release, tier 5
Published
2011-12-01
Accessed
2026-08-12
Measure and scope
Read off a clean live capture of the publisher's page obtained on 12 August 2026, replacing a held capture clipped at the right margin through and past the block quotation. Scope of the absence in the study: Syria occurs thirteen times, all in appendix tables
Known conflict
The held capture was defective and the defect had been disclosed since v12 without a retrieval being attempted. The clean capture supersedes it
Downstream
The illicit-flows chase closes on this: between an appendix row and a release, a line in a dataset acquired a country, a per-head loss and a named individual
Action
None. The clean capture also re-establishes, on a whole document, that 'conservative', 'normalized', 'normalised', 'high-end', '15.3' and '15,288' do not occur in the release