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Crispin Yuen

Director, Custos Advisory

...fore the Inquiry into financial-related crime (2015). In June 2022, he was invited to speak at an expert roundtable held at the United Nations Office, Vienna by the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on cybercrime pursuant to the UN General Assembly resolution 75/282. Crispin has been serving as a Board member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Australasian Chapter f...

Posted on 07 Jul 2021
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José Sousa-Santos

Pacific Policy Fellow, Australia Pacific Security College

...oup (2015-2019); the Senior Associate Regional Security Southeast Asia and the Pacific at Victoria University (2019-2020); and in 2020-21 was a Visiting Fellow with the Australian National University cyber Institute. Mr Sousa-Santos was formerly an advisor to HE Dr José Ramos-Horta during his terms as prime minister and president, and a lead analyst with the United Nations Integrated Mission in Tim...

Posted on 16 Jun 2021
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Dr Suleyman Ozeren

Adjunct Professor, George Mason University

...“From Territorial Defeat to Global ISIS: Lessons Learned” (2021); “Terrorism Paradox and Turkey,” “Understanding Terrorism: Analysis of Sociological and Psychological Aspects”, “ISIS in cyberspace: Findings from Social Media Research”, “Multi-Faceted Approach to Radicalization in Terrorist Organizations (Published by NATO Affiliated IOS Press)”, and “Cyberterrorism and Cybercrime:...

Posted on 16 Jun 2021
17 Jun

CovidCrimeWatch

Criminal Contagion: How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers profit from a Pandemic

...in previously unimaginable ways. The flow of illegal goods and services is no exception. Organized criminal groups adapted and even profited from the weaknesses that the pandemic created or exposed. cyber-crime boomed, new prohibition markets emerged, a lack of safeguarding left children open to exploitation, and corruption proliferated in health-care systems. In their new book, 'Criminal Contagion: H...

Posted on 10 Jun 2021

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Vienna counter-crime diplomacy held hostage to political disagreements

...c community in Vienna to make meaningful, innovative progress in tackling illicit markets. For example, earlier in May, diplomats met at the UN to design a process for creating a new UN convention on cybercrime. As it turned out, the meeting could not agree on fundamental issues, such as where the process should be based (i.e. Vienna or New York) or how external stakeholders should be included in the p...

Posted on 28 May 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

03 Jun

Drug Policy, ESA-Obs

Changing Tides: The evolving illicit drug trade in the western Indian Ocean

Changing tides

...2021 de la GI-TOC. Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo est analyste principale à la GI-TOC. Ses travaux ont principalement porté sur la traite et le trafic d’êtres humains, le trafic de drogue et la cybercriminalité. Auparavant, Lucia a travaillé en tant que conseillère juridique et politique auprès des gouvernements du Ghana et du Pakistan. Julia Stanyard est un analyste travaillant à l’Observ...

Posted on 24 May 2021

Author(s): Vel Moonien, Riana Raymonde Randrianarisoa, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Julia Stanyard

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #7

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...orted in Serbia in March, when several offenders were arrested for sharing child abuse material. As discussed in this article, such cases show the growing dangers of tech-facilitated crime, including cyberbullying, sexual exploitation and sextortion in the Western Balkans, and the challenges faced by law enforcement. Read more Western Balkan criminal groups in Greece. In recent years, Greece has become...

Posted on 13 May 2021

Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

Kyoto Declaration falls short of addressing the real challenges of organized crime

...aration with regard to drugs, child sexual abuse and exploitation, wildlife trafficking, trafficking in falsified medical products, trafficking in cultural property, smuggling of commercial goods and cybercrime. There is also a commitment to strengthening measures to prosecute hate crimes. The Kyoto Declaration does offer progress on the recognition of crime as a development issue, and embraces othe...

Posted on 09 Mar 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

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William Oelofse

Director, ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna

...global, local and cultural experience from working with leading global teams. Willie’s areas of expertise are Investigations, Financial and Economic Crime, Fraud risk management, Whistleblowing, cybercrime, Drug trafficking, Illicit trade & counterfeits....

Posted on 01 Feb 2021

Global Initiative

Imprisonment for defamation seeks to silence investigative journalism in Niger

..., a crippling sum by Nigerien standards. Of greater concern is the risk that a law introduced in 2019 may be used against Aksar, under which he could face imprisonment. Article 29 of the 2019 anti-cybercrime law sets the penalty for online defamation at between XOF1 million (US$1 840) and XOF5 million (US$9 210), but includes provisions for six-month to three-year jail terms. The use of defamatio...

Posted on 25 Jan 2021

Author(s): Alexandre Bish

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Dr. Chris Allen

Senior Police Practice Tutor, Buckinghamshire New University and Director, Criminis Training and Consultancy Services

...Dr. Chris Allen is a researcher, lecturer, consultant and commentator specialising in organised crime and how it operates.  He has significant experience in lecturing on drug trafficking, cybercrime, human trafficking and firearms trafficking, among other subjects. He is currently Senior Police Practice Tutor at Buckinghamshire New University, where he has responsibility for the Evidence...

Posted on 12 Jan 2021
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Hai Thanh Luong

Research Fellow, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University

... modus operandi of several transnational drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle across the borderland between Vietnam and Laos in his thesis. Dr Hai is currently conducting his Research Fellow in cyber Criminology at the School of Social Science, the University of Queensland. Additionally, he is  a senior research and chair of the Asian Drug Crime Research Committee at the Institute for Asian Crim...

Posted on 12 Jan 2021
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