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
Anton Moiseienko and Olivier Kraft
This Occasional Paper discusses the ways that cyber-criminals manage the proceeds of their crimes, from employing money mules to using services such as mixers to obfuscate the proceeds' origins. It offers recommendations for policymakers, law enforcement professionals and regulated entities to target and reduce these activities.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Cyber, Financial Crime 2.0, Illicit Trade, Occasional Papers, AML/CTF, UK, Organised Crime, Technology
Tom Keatinge and Anton Moiseienko
Pakistan’s new government came to power 100 days ago vowing to fight corruption and recover looted national wealth. But the UK is integral to Pakistan’s anti-corruption effort, and London would be well-advised to help Pakistan achieve its objectives.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Pakistan, AML/CTF, UK, Organised Crime
Florence Keen
The spendthrift wife of a jailed Azerbaijani banker has emerged as the subject of the UK’s first Unexplained Wealth Order, but will the tool mature into an effective method of combatting ‘dirty money’ at the heart of London’s luxury property market?
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI Newsbrief, AML/CTF, UK
The recent UN Security Resolution targeting foreign fighters travelling to Syria and Iraq had an opportunity to deploy one of the most powerful available intelligence tools, namely partnership with the banking system. Inexplicably, that opportunity was missed.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Intelligence, Terrorism, Middle East and North Africa
The spectacular advances made by ISIS have brought focus to the group’s sources of financing, but is the international response and the securing of a UN Security Council Resolution too late given the impressive internal, war economy model the group has developed?
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Terrorism, Middle East and North Africa
For Ukrainians who have shed blood in pursuit of closer ties with the EU, the reticence of European leaders to sanction Russia is at best incomprehensible, and at worst a betrayal. The downing of flight MH17 must finally bring a strong response if Brussels is to maintain any credibility.
Tags: Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, Europe
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