Tag: Wildlife Trafficking
CITES Meets in Geneva – Wildlife at Risk
Governments, Trade Associations and NGO’s are meeting to talk trade and conservation with concerns around Elephant Ivory, Rhino Horn and the fate of the Mako…
Interview with Absa’s Nic Swingler
On a recent visit to South Africa, Financial Crime News was delighted to meet with Nic Swingler Head Financial Crime Compliance at Absa Group Limited,…
Interview with the Black Mambas Anti Poaching Unit
In this Interview with the Black Mamba’s Anti Poaching Unit. Qolile Matebula and Alice Bromage sat down with Financial Crime News to discuss anti poaching…
New FATF Priorities include targeting the Illegal Wildlife Trade
After an impressive year for FATF, under the US Presidency, which signed off last month, and concluded with the Florida Plenary, the Chinese Presidency now…
Wildlife Trafficking Syndicate ensnared by United Forces
On 13 June 2019, the US Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York indicted four individuals, Moazu KROMAH, Amara CHERIF, Mansur…
Modern Organised Crime turns 100
Whilst the term “organised crime” appears to have emerged in Chicago in 1919, the phenomenon of organised criminal activity far pre-dates this and its manifestations…
The United for Wildlife’s Financial Taskforce
The Royal Foundation’s United for Wildlife’s Financial Taskforce was launched in Q4 2019 in order to help target organised crime and the proceeds of the…
3 African Rhino’s killed each day, even on Chinese / Lunar New Years
On the 4th/5th February, 2019 over a billion people celebrated the beginning of a new year, the year of the pig. Festivities are celebrated throughout…
Wildlife Trafficking by Katie Perrott
The illegal wildlife trade is a transnational, commodity-based and highly profitable form of organised crime, until recently carrying little risk of detection and prosecution, particularly…
