Latinoamérica y el Caribe

It’s not about winning … it’s about playing the game?

...The integrity of the world’s most popular sport was shaken to its foundations this September, as match-fixing scandals broke in four corners of the globe.  Police in Singapore arrested 14 people sa...

Posted on 06 Sep 2013

Global Initiative

The Gathering Storm: China’s Growing Illicit Economy

...China’s police struck the traffickers in early September. In a series of coordinated raids across eleven provinces, the police rescued 92 children and arrested 301 human trafficking suspects. While ...

Posted on 06 Sep 2013

Global Initiative

Countering the Cybercrime Avalanche

...A vibrant discussion panel at the Global Initiative Launch explored the myriad of ways that the internet has fundamentally changed the nature of organized crime and opened a Pandora’s box of illicit...

Posted on 06 Sep 2013

Global Initiative

A Market on Fire: The Trade in Art and Antiquities

...The raiders moved with impressive speed.  In under 96 seconds they entered Amsterdam’s Kunsthal Museum, stole between €18 million and €200 million in art, and vanished.  However, for all their...

Posted on 06 Sep 2013

Private Sector

Know Your Customer: Understand the AML threat beyond the customer

...This paper discusses issues beyond KYC as we know it to mean ‘’Know Your Customer. We also investigate three criminal activities that either facilitate or lead to money laundering and involve seem...

Posted on 17 Aug 2013

Wildlife Watch

Day of the [enter species here]

...In August, we celebrated World Lion Day (August 10th, World Elephant Day (August 12th), World Orangutan Dayb(August 19th) and we look forward to World Rhino Day to come (September 22nd).  But with th...

Posted on 06 Aug 2013

Global Initiative

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Barclay’s Bank Kiboshes Somali Remittances

...In May, Barclays Bank announced it would be withdrawing banking services from 250 money transfer services, including a number that provided remittance services to Somalia and Somaliland. This was the ...

Posted on 06 Aug 2013

Crime & Conflict

Arms Trafficking in Syria: A Case of the Biter Getting Bitten

...The grinding maelstrom that is Syria’s civil war continues to churn. While the grievances behind the conflict are complex and variable, there is one enabling factor that has been vital - access to w...

Posted on 06 Aug 2013

Global Initiative

Global Initiative Launch – 19 September 2013

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime will formally launch in New York on the 19th September 2013. The event will feature a keynote speech by Moisés Naím of the Carnegie E...

Posted on 04 Aug 2013

Protecting Politics

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief – July 2013

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief - July 2013

...The Global Initiative has reviewed the biggest developments, publications and new tools on organized crime for the last month and is pleased to share the "Analyzing Organized Crime" brief for July 201...

Posted on 31 Jul 2013

Wildlife Watch

Criminal Nature: The Global Security Implications of the Illegal Wildlife Trade

...IFAW’S 2008 REPORT, was one of the first publications of its kind to assert that the illicit trade in wildlife is not only a serious global environmental crime with profoundly negative impacts for e...

Posted on 17 Jul 2013

RESPECT

Threat or opportunity? Trafficking in persons in the internet era

...On June 19th, the U.S. Department of State issued its 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report. The report ranks nations on specific benchmarks in combatting human trafficking and slavery. U.S. Department o...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013