The Education for Justice (E4J) initiative developed, with the support of academics from around the world, a series of modules on cybercrime. These university modules cover many aspects of this complex and fascinating field and include both theoretical concepts as well as practical knowledge.  Furthermore, these modules are multi-disciplinary in nature, since they focus on […]

What’s the harm in buying a knock-off purse or a fake designer watch? According to counterfeit investigator Alastair Gray, fakes like these fund terrorism and organised crime. Learn more about the trillion-dollar underground economy of counterfeiting — from the criminal organisations that run it to the child labour they use to produce its goods — […]

The Deutsche Bank has been operating bank accounts for a political party that reportedly supports PFLP, which both the US and the EU define as a terrorist organization. The Office of the New York State Comptroller on Friday opened an investigation into accounts Deutsche Bank holds for a German political party that allegedly provides organizational […]

The EU’s executive body has promised new legislation in the Spring to make sure the exchanges and users of virtual currency platforms such as Bitcoin are identifiable and traceable. The reason? Terrorism. The move was announced as part of a raft of measures to make it harder for terrorists and their backers to move around […]

The London office of Reed Business Information sold critical data that helped sanctioned banks funding chemical and nuclear weapons in Syria and Iran make complex international transactions. A BuzzFeed News Investigation unravels the web. The Middle East salesman had been wrestling with his conscience for more than a month when the barrel bombs broke and […]

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued a report on the funding of terrorist organisation Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The report suggests countermeasures that governments can take to combat key terrorist financing risks, and identifies certain risks on which the FATF will conduct further research in order to determine the […]

The tightening of international banking standards is making it difficult for low-income people in the global south to get access to banking service When people in developing countries don’t have access to a bank account, physical proximity to a bank is usually the first challenge that springs to mind, but sometimes the reason a person […]

Thomson Reuters in conjunction with The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has looked at the interrelationship between illicit activity in economic and political arenas and issued a report titled: Risky Business: The Global Threat Network and the Politics of Contraband See the report here –RiskyBusiness_The Global Threat Network The report utilizes Thomson Reuters Accelus […]