Improving Governance and Tackling Crime in Free-Trade Zones
Free trade zones have been labelled ‘high risk’ for illicit trade and financial crime. So, why do countries keep introducing new ones?
Leading from Behind: The Focus on the Financial Investigation of Wildlife Crime Must be Sustained
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) June 2020 report on illegal wildlife trade showed financial action is rare. Where to now?
SECUR.PORT Workshop: A conceptual report and summary of activities
In May 2020, we hosted 16 practitioners and 9 researchers with expertise in the field of port policing, port security, organised crime and border control.
Written Evidence for the International Trade Committee’s Inquiry on UK Freeports
The introduction of new UK freeports carry a number of potential risks.
Free Ports, Not Safe Havens: Preventing Crime in the UK’s Future Freeports
This Briefing Paper analyses the possible criminal risks posed by the UK's future freeports.
Case Closed? Why We Should Review Historic Wildlife Trafficking Cases from a Financial Perspective
This article explores the role of historic case reviews as a capacity building exercise in Lao PDR.
Turning the Tide? Learning from Responses to Large-Scale IUU Fishing in Five Countries
What can be learned from responses to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Tanzania and South Africa?
Free Trade Zones and Financial Crime – A Faustian Bargain?
To safeguard free trade zones from criminal activities, national authorities and zone administrators must feel the pressure to do the right thing.
Have Your Cake and Trade It: Is it Possible to Promote Legitimate Commerce While Reducing Illicit Trade?
Trade based money laundering and illicit trade both take advantage of the sheer scale of global commerce. Several solutions exist to tackling the issues.
Freeports: Harbouring Criminality in Brexit Britain?
The plan to introduce 10 new freeports across the UK after Brexit has drawn criticism. Introducing these provenly risky zones may contradict the UK’s wider efforts to ramp up the fight against financial crime.
Small Parcels, Big Risks: The Forgotten Security Dimensions of the EU’s Digital Single Market Strategy
Postal and parcel delivery services are the unsung heroes of the global e-commerce revolution, licit and illicit.
Pangolin survival: How 'following the money' could save lives
Around the world, the illegal wildlife trade is having a devastating effect on our natural environment. We must target the finances of high level traffickers.
E-Commerce, Delivery Services and the Illicit Tobacco Trade
This Occasional Paper explores the exploitation of the internet and delivery services in relation to illicit tobacco and tobacco products.
A Missing Page: Strengthening the Response to the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Financial investigations in illegal wildlife trade cases are too rare. More must be done to identify the illicit proceeds of IWT and ally confiscation laws and money-laundering charges to tackle criminals’ ill-gotten gains.
Irrelephant: The Misleading Connections Between Terrorism and Ivory Poaching
Connections between terrorism and ivory trafficking exist, but they are not a solid foundation for combatting the issue.