Not above the law? The role of lawyers in combating money laundering and illicit asset flows.
Lawyers frequently find themselves caught between their obligations to governmental authorities and their fidelity to their clients. This becomes...
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World Atlas of Illicit Flows
Organized crime takes the lion’s share of USD31.5 billion in illicit flows in and around conflict areas A new report warns that the illegal...
Capturing proceeds of crime in illicit financial flows models
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are generally viewed as the financial side of criminal activity, and there is widespread agreement IFFs are a global...
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Costing crime on the balance sheet
A new Swedish survey has estimated the cost of crime to the private sector as equivalent to 1.2% of the country’s GDP, but the real figure is...
Pain, No Gain: Africa’s Relationship with International Tax Havens
With the release of the Paradise Papers, the world’s attention has been turned to the role of tax havens in facilitating tax avoidance, tax...
Gold, guns and China: Ghana’s fight to end galamsey
Hundreds of thousands, including many from China, are engaged in illegal artisanal mining. How can the government stop it? At the start of April,...
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World Atlas of Illicit Flows
Organized crime takes the lion’s share of USD31.5 billion in illicit flows in and around conflict areas A new report warns that the illegal...
Money in Politics: how to stop illicit money to parties and candidates
In early September 2015 the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the Electoral Tribunal of the...
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Mapping Global Transformations – Illicit Economies
What exactly are the Transformation Maps? Transformation Maps are the World Economic Forum’s dynamic knowledge tool. They help users to explore and...
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GIN Interview – Jean-Luc Peduzzi, Head of the Dakar Platform
As law enforcement attaché to the embassy of France in Dakar, Jean-Luc Peduzzi, who is tasked with implementing bilateral security co-operation with...
GIN Interview: Saidi Mwema, former Inspector General, Tanzanian Police
Said Mwema, former Tanzanian police chief, spoke to the GI about his experiences at the helm of the police force in Tanzania and his thoughts on...
GIN Interview: Gavin Corn, Federal Prosecutor in FBI’s Cybercrime Taskforce
Federal prosecutor on detail to FBI’s Cyber Task Force and founding member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime It’s...
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Enhancing the Detection, Investigation and Disruption of Illicit Financial Flows from Wildlife Crime
Wildlife crime poses a serious threat to thousands of species of plants and animals, which in some cases are being pushed to the brink of extinction....
Transnational Crime and the Developing World
Transnational crime is a business, and business is very good. Money is the primary motivation for these illegal activities. The revenues generated...
Bankrupting Kleptocracy: Financial tools to counter atrocities in Africa’s deadliest war zones
In several conflict-affected countries in East and Central Africa, the state has been hijacked and transformed from an institution that is supposed...