“Financial investigations identify and collect evidence against mid- and high-level members of a criminal network, but they are currently underused in the investigation of corruption related to natural resource crimes.”
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Alexandria Reid and Tom Keatinge on targeting corruption
In The News, 21 October 2020Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Organised Crime and Policing, Organised Crime
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Research Fellow, National Security and Resilience
Alexandria Reid is a Research Fellow in the Organised Crime and Policing team at RUSI. Her research covers a range of topics related to... read more
Director, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI
Tom Keatinge is the Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI, where his research focuses on matters at... read more
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