08 Dec 2022
Terror and taxes
Cities & Illicit Economies, ESA-Obs
The Global Initiative Network
Author, GIN Member
Jay Bahadur
Independent researcher and investigator
Jay Bahadur is an independent researcher and investigator based in Nairobi. From 2015 to 2019, he served as a UN Security Council sanctions monitor covering Somalia and Eritrea. His areas of focus included the Islamist militant groups Al-Shabaab and the Islamic State, maritime arms-smuggling networks, piracy, and the oil and gas sector. He has since authored several research reports for the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, primarily focused on the trafficking of arms from Iran to Yemen and onwards into the Horn of Africa. Bahadur is also the author of the 2011 book The Pirates of Somalia.
Publications
- Bahadur, J. (2022). “The price of civil war: A survey of Somalia’s arms markets“. GI-TOC.
- Bahadur, J. (2022). “Terror and taxes: Inside al-Shabaab’s revenue-collection machine“. GI-TOC.
- Bahadur, J. (2021). “Fishy Business: Illegal fishing in Somalia and the capture of state institutions“. GI-TOC.
- Bahadur, J. (2021). “An Iranian Fingerprint? Tracing Type 56-1 assault rifles in Somalia“. GI-TOC.
- Bahadur, J. (2020). “Following the money: The use of the hawala remittance system in the Yemen – Somalia arms trade“. GI-TOC.
- Bahadur, J. (2020). “Snapping back against Iran: The case of the Al Bari 2 and the UN arms embargo“. GI-TOC.
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