Money Laundering

Uncomfortable truths? ML=BS and AML= BS2

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 21:44:25 +0000

The purpose of this paper is to advance debate and prompt new strategies substantially to improve the capacity to disrupt serious profit-motivated crime. Using interdiction rates (the proportion of c ...

Panama Papers demonstrate need to reopen UNGASS 2016 outcome document

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:10:22 +0000

The Panama Papers, a massive leak of confidential documents from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama that helped wealthy clients and money launderers for drug trafficking organisations set up anony ...

Global Surveillance of Dirty Money

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 15:48:38 +0000

This first independent assessment of the global AML system, conducted by the Center on Law and Globalization, appraises efforts to rate countries by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Financia ...

Drug law enforcement and financial investigation strategies

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:06:44 +0000

Since the 1980s, there has been a major push in rhetoric and institution-building, emphasizing the centrality of attacking the financial lifeblood of drug trafficking networks and organised economic ...

Deficiencies in financial oversight enable money laundering

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:20:12 +0000

In July 1989, the leaders of the economic powers assembled at the G7 Paris summit decided to establish a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to counter money laundering as an effective strategy agains ...

Draining Development?

Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:32:39 +0000

The book provides the first collection of analytic contributions, as opposed to advocacy essays and black box estimates, on illicit financial flows (IFFs). Some of the chapter presents new empirical ...

Countering illicit and unregulated money flows

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:25:51 +0000

In this issue of Crime & Globalisation, Tom Blickman tracks the history of the international anti-money laundering (AML) regime. Since its origin in 1989 there is a growing awareness that the AML reg ...

Money Laundering, Tax Evasion and Financial Regulation

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:20:33 +0000

The seminar looked at the effectiveness of the Anti Money Laundering (AML) regime that has been built over the past two decades, and the more recent attempts by states and international organisations ...

Money Laundering

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:42:39 +0000

Techniques for hiding proceeds of crime include transporting cash out of the country, purchasing businesses through which funds can be channeled, buying easily transportable valuables, transfer prici ...

Chasing Dirty Money

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:09:53 +0000

Originally developed to reduce drug trafficking, national and international efforts to reduce money laundering have broadened over the years to address other crimes, and most recently, terrorism. The ...