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FATF Global Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing Threat Assessment, 2010
08 Sep 2010
This document presents a global overview of the systemic money laundering and terrorist financing threats and ultimate harms that they can cause. Combating ML/TF requires an ongoing understanding of the methods used by criminals to launder their illicit funds and terrorists to fuel terrorism. These methods range from well-known practices established over many years to modern techniques that exploit innovations in global payment networks and continuous advances in technology.
Topics: FATF Money Laundering OECD Terrorism Terrorist Financing
APG Yearly Typologies Report, 2010
02 Aug 2010
The Yearly Typologies Report includes observations on money laundering and terrorist financing techniques and methods. These observations are intended to assist with identifying instances of suspicious financial activity in the real world. It is hoped that the case studies and ‘red flag’ indicators in this report will assist the front-line financial institutions and non-financial businesses and professions (casinos, accountants, lawyers, real estate, etc) involved in implementing preventative measures such as customer due diligence and suspicious transaction monitoring.
UN General Assembly Seeks Ways to Foil Threat of Organized Crime
24 Jun 2010
United Nations, New York, 17 June 2010. UN officials last week underscored the urgency of combating organized crime, which a new report has found is gaining in global reach and posing a greater threat to peace, development and even national sovereignty. "The Globalization of Crime" examines major trafficking flows of drugs, firearms, counterfeit products, stolen natural resources, people trafficked for sex or forced labour and smuggled migrants, and offers ways to tackle these threats. The report was issued as the General Assembly held a high-level debate on the threats posed by organized crime.
Topics: Drug Trafficking Money Laundering Organised Crime Terrorist Financing UN
UNDCP Digest of Terrorist Cases
20 May 2010
The judicial cases featured in this Digest cover relevant aspects of the international legal regime against terrorism. It provides a comparative analysis of national statutory frameworks for terrorism prosecutions, and it identifies legal issues and pitfalls encountered in investigating and adjudicating relevant offences. In addition, it identifies practices related to specialized investigative and prosecutorial techniques. It also addresses the links between terrorism and other forms of crime (like organized crime, the trafficking of drugs, people and arms), as well as how to disrupt terrorist financing.
Topics: Terrorist Financing
Jeffrey Robinson - Funding the London Bombings
22 Mar 2010
Jeffrey Robinson, author of The Laundrymen states in this short clip that Al-Qaeda doesn't exist in the way that we frequently conceive it to. In reality it operates more like the IRA cells of the 1980s. Robinson points out that the atrocities committed in the name of Al-Qaeda are funded locally, with petty crime and it is monitoring these issues that will help identify developing terrorist cells.
Topics: Terrorist Financing
