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Pieth","2f4f2174-a03c-4bd1-9cbc-848efef795c6",[178,217,259,297,340,379,419,473,514,546],{"id":179,"slug":180,"title":181,"status":6,"nid":182,"year":183,"body":184,"external":19,"topic":185,"language":15,"type":187,"date_published":189,"image":190,"citation":14,"publisher":191,"link_internal":192,"link_external":193,"authors":194,"countries":199,"tags":200,"pdf":209,"topics":211,"featured":19,"languages":213,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":214,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":215,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":216},2378,"qg34","Quick Guide 34: Public-private partnerships for financial intelligence sharing",2724,2024,"Financial intelligence is the staple food of investigations into corruption, money laundering and other financial crimes.\n\nMuch financial intelligence is held by private-sector institutions such as banks and other financial service providers. How does that get into the hands of law enforcement, where it can trigger or inform investigations? And how can we improve the system?\n\nThis Quick Guide gives a brief introduction to public-private partnerships or platforms for financial intelligence sharing. It sets out how they work in practice, and how they can improve the sharing of targeted, useful information between law enforcement and financial institutions.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nYou are free to share and republish this work under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 Licence\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21,186],"Asset Recovery",[188],"Quick Guide","2024-11-25","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F01dea28f-22b8-47cd-bf86-ddee24683c2b?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance",[],[],[195],{"authors_id":196},{"id":197,"name":198},327,"Simon Marsh",[],[201,203,205],{"tags_id":202},{"id":102,"name":103},{"tags_id":204},{"id":118,"name":119},{"tags_id":206},{"id":207,"name":208},1374,"Law enforcement",[210],2416,[21,212],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement",[15],"2024-12-05T14:06:47.000Z","2026-05-31T22:51:55.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fqg34",{"id":218,"slug":219,"title":220,"status":6,"nid":221,"year":222,"body":223,"external":19,"topic":224,"language":15,"type":226,"date_published":228,"image":229,"citation":14,"publisher":191,"link_internal":230,"link_external":234,"authors":235,"countries":240,"tags":241,"pdf":252,"topics":254,"featured":19,"languages":255,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":256,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":257,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":258},2202,"pb-10","Policy Brief 10: Using anti-money laundering frameworks to fight illegal wildlife trade in Uganda",2238,2022,"In February 2020, Uganda made a high-level political commitment to work with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) to strengthen the effectiveness of its anti-money laundering (AML) regime. Among other commitments, Uganda undertook to demonstrate that law enforcement agencies and judicial authorities apply the money laundering offence consistent with the identified risks. \n\nStudies show that Uganda has high risks for cross-border movement of illegally obtained wildlife and wildlife products, both as a source and transit country. In addition, Uganda and the East African region in general have made some massive seizures of illegal wildlife products, which points to organised criminal activity. Notably, no money laundering prosecutions have to date arisen out of illegal wildlife trade (IWT) as a predicate offence in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.\n\nThis short Policy Brief provides an outline of how the AML framework (intelligence, investigations and prosecutions) can be utilised to help combat IWT and the corruption that facilitates it. The insights are drawn from the Ugandan context, but can be applied with appropriate adjustments to other jurisdictions seeking to strengthen efforts to combat IWT and related corruption\u002Fmoney laundering.\n\n### About this Policy Brief\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Policy Brief series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type[]=257\">ISSN 2624-9669\u003C\u002Fa>, and supports the Basel Institute's \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption programme\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nIt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa>). Suggested citation: Walugembe, Tom. 2022. “Using anti-money laundering frameworks to fight illegal wildlife trade.” Policy Brief 10, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpb-10\">baselgovernance.org\u002Fpb-10\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nThis Policy Brief was funded by UK Aid through the IWT Challenge Fund. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the UK Government. This research is co-funded through a core donation to the Green Corruption programme from the Principality of Liechtenstein.",[21,186,225],"Green Corruption",[227],"Policy Brief","2022-06-21","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Faf0b4619-3c02-4eeb-a367-8920b50482cc?width=600&height=840",[231],{"url":232,"caption":233},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Policy%20Brief"," View all Policy Briefs",[],[236],{"authors_id":237},{"id":238,"name":239},311,"Tom Walugembe",[],[242,244,246,250],{"tags_id":243},{"id":118,"name":119},{"tags_id":245},{"id":102,"name":103},{"tags_id":247},{"id":248,"name":249},1303,"Environment",{"tags_id":251},{"id":207,"name":208},[253],2241,[21,212,225],[15],"2022-07-07T16:27:27.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:59.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fpb-10",{"id":260,"slug":261,"title":262,"status":6,"nid":263,"year":222,"body":264,"external":19,"topic":265,"language":15,"type":266,"date_published":267,"image":268,"citation":14,"publisher":191,"link_internal":269,"link_external":273,"authors":277,"countries":282,"tags":283,"pdf":292,"topics":293,"featured":19,"languages":294,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":295,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":257,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":296},2200,"quick-guide-26-national-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-risk-assessments","Quick Guide 26: National money laundering and terrorist financing risk assessments",2235,"This quick guide explains the role of national risk assessments in addressing money laundering and terrorist financing (ML\u002FTF) risks.\n\nIt explains how national risk assessments are conducted, challenges in terms of methodology and data availability, and how well countries are doing at performing them.\n\nNRAs are a critical element of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards on ML\u002FTF. They also provide data in special reports of the Basel AML Index.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nThis work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21,186],[188],"2022-06-16","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Ff9f605aa-1d2d-42eb-b4cd-b0a30afa87e4?width=600&height=840",[270],{"url":271,"caption":272},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Quick%20Guide"," View all Quick Guides",[274],{"url":275,"caption":276},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=133"," View on Basel LEARN",[278],{"authors_id":279},{"id":280,"name":281},301,"Kateryna Boguslavska",[],[284,286,290],{"tags_id":285},{"id":118,"name":119},{"tags_id":287},{"id":288,"name":289},859,"Corruption risks",{"tags_id":291},{"id":86,"name":87},[221],[21,212],[15],"2022-06-16T13:29:18.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-26-national-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing-risk-assessments",{"id":298,"slug":299,"title":300,"status":6,"nid":301,"year":302,"body":303,"external":19,"topic":304,"language":15,"type":305,"date_published":307,"image":308,"citation":309,"publisher":191,"link_internal":310,"link_external":314,"authors":315,"countries":320,"tags":325,"pdf":332,"topics":334,"featured":19,"languages":7,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":335,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":336,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":337,"main_points":338,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":339},2428,"cs-12","Case Study 12: Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case",2874,2025,"This Case Study highlights how investigators of Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry achieved their first conviction for money laundering linked to forestry offences, leveraging institutional and legal changes in financial investigation procedures.\n\n### About this Case Study\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fcase-studies\">ISSN 2813-3900\u003C\u002Fa>. It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa>).\n\nThe development of this publication was funded through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.",[225],[306],"Case Study","2025-11-25","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fcb6cbdfc-7348-43d5-bfc0-2d3fc41157cd?width=600&height=840","Anindito, Lakso. 2025. “Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case.” Case Study 12, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-12\">baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-12\u003C\u002Fa>.",[311],{"url":312,"caption":313},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Case%20Study"," View all Case Studies",[],[316],{"authors_id":317},{"id":318,"name":319},523,"Lakso Anindito",[321],{"countries_id":322},{"id":323,"name":324},99,"Indonesia",[326,328,330],{"tags_id":327},{"id":118,"name":119},{"tags_id":329},{"id":248,"name":249},{"tags_id":331},{"id":102,"name":103},[333],2483,[225],"\u003C!-- image -->\n\n## Case Study 12\n\n## November 2025\n\n## Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case\n\nHow investigators of Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry achieved their first conviction for money laundering linked to forestry offences, leveraging institutional and legal changes in financial investigation procedures.\n\nLakso Anindito , Team Leader Indonesia, Green Corruption programme, Basel Institute on Governance\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n## Key points\n\n- → In a case of illegal logging in Alas Purwo National Park, investigators of Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry 1  obtained their first money laundering conviction.\n- → This achievement was made possible through a 2021 Constitutional Court decision extending the power to pursue  money laundering offences  to  investigators in  charge of predicate offences, in this case timber trafficking.  This  power  was  previously  limited  to investigators of traditional law enforcement agencies, including the police and the Corruption Eradication Commission.\n- → Training  and  technical  assistance  by  the  Green Corruption  programme  of  the  Basel  Institute  on Governance contributed to strengthening law\n\n- enforcement capacities to effectively handle money laundering cases and track illicit financial flows tied to environmental crimes.\n- → Sustained coordination and collaboration among the Ministry, Indonesia's Financial Intelligence Unit and the Attorney General's Office were pivotal in applying the follow-the-money approach to the illegal logging case.\n- → Businessman  Supono  was  convicted  initially  of illegally trading rosewood and later of laundering approximately USD 127,000 he had obtained through log  trading.  In  both  cases,  he  was  sentenced  to prison and ordered to pay a fine.\n- → Although the amount of money laundered in this case and the imposed fines were relatively modest, the case set a precedent for integrating financial crime investigations into environmental enforcement. This paves the way for future, larger-scale prosecutions by investigators of environmental agencies.\n\n## The case\n\n- 1. In 2021, investigators at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry started investigating indications of illegal logging in Alas Purwo National Park in Banyuwangi, East Java. National Park staff had caught a transporter carrying illegally logged rosewood (sonokeling) .\n- 2 . The  investigation  began  with  an  effort  to  identify who  was  benefiting  from  the  illegal  activities.  A businessman named Supono was later identified as the beneficiary. He was the person who orchestrated the transport of the rosewood logs.\n- 3. In 2022, the Banyuwangi District Court convicted Supono of intentionally transporting and owning forest products (logs of 31 rosewood trees sourced from Alas Purwo National Park) without permit. 2 The Court sentenced Supono to two years in prison and a fine of IDR 500 million (approx. USD 29,900). This first case was pursued purely on the basis of forestry crime charges.\n- 4. The Ministry's investigators continued to pursue the case using a follow-the-money approach to trace the proceeds of the crime. They applied this approach in close collaboration with the Financial Intelligent Unit (PPATK), which contributed key information, and in coordination with the Attorney General's Office. The financial investigation revealed:\n- a. Supono carried out suspicious financial transactions with two sawmill companies, PT Aji Sono and PT Amruu. His later statement during the court  proceedings  disclosed  that  the  logs  he was  trading  with  these  two  companies  were sourced not only from Alas Purwo National Park, but also from other locations, including Lampung, Sulawesi and Sumbawa.\n- b. Between 2020 and 2022, Supono gained approximately USD 127,000 from trading logs with PT Aji Sono (IDR 1,454,440,000) and PT Amruu (IDR 670,980,800).\n\n- c. To conceal the origins of the illegal proceeds, the  two  companies  transferred  the  money for their log purchases to the bank account of Supono's son, which was effectively controlled by Supono himself.\n- d. Supono then moved the money from his son's bank  account  to  his  own  account  in  smaller transactions, both via direct transfer and via cash withdrawal and manual deposits.\n- e. Supono integrated the proceeds of crime with money  he  had  loaned  from  the  bank  in  2020 (when he had no specific need for a bank loan). He then used the illicit funds to pay back the loan. He used this 'loan-back' method to disguise the proceeds of crime as legitimate money from the bank and other unrelated business activities.\n- f. Among other things, Supono used the money from the logging business to buy land.\n- 5. In 2024,  the  Banyuwangi  District  Court  issued its decision No. 11\u002FPid.Sus\u002F2024\u002FPN Byw 3  declaring Supono  guilty  of  money  laundering.  The  Court sentenced  Supono  to  one  year  and  three  months in  prison  and  a  fine  of  IDR  50  million  (approx. USD 3,000). The proceeds of the crime as such were not recovered.\n\nThe illegal logging and money laundering scheme uncovered by investigators of Indonesia's Ministry of Environment and Forestry.\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n## Legal background\n\n- · In  2010,  Indonesia  enacted  the  new  AntiMoney Laundering Law No. 8\u002F2010. 4 It provides  a legal  framework  for  tracing  and prosecuting illicit financial flows, including those  linked  to  environmental  crimes .  This marked a major step towards integrating  financial investigation tools into law enforcement efforts against  money  laundering.  However,  initially, only investigators of traditional law enforcement authorities  were  authorised  to  use  this  law, including from police, the Attorney General's Office, the Corruption Eradication Commission, the National Narcotics Agency, the tax authority and customs.\n- · A  landmark  decision  came  in  2021  when the  Constitutional  Court  issued  its  Decision\n\nNo. 15\u002FPUU-XIX\u002F2021. 5 This authorised investigators in charge of predicate offences, including from natural resources and environmental  authorities,  to  investigate not only environmental  crimes  such  as timber trafficking but also the related money laundering offences .\n\n- · The  Ministry  of  Environment  and  Forestry initiated  several strategic  actions  to  utilise its expanded powers . For example, it reached an  agreement  with  the  Indonesian  Financial Intelligence Unit to develop a joint investigation team. The Ministry also set its investigators the target of handling environmental cases using a  follow-the-money  approach,  and  started collaborating with the Attorney General's Office.\n\n## What can we learn from this case?\n\n## Laws and their interpretation are important….\n\nThe Constitutional Court's 2021 Decision is an important example of how a legal framework can be interpreted to  maximise its effectiveness in practice. In this case, the decision granted investigators from environmental agencies - in addition to investigators from traditional law enforcement agencies - the legal authority to pursue money laundering offences linked to environmental crimes.\n\nIt  empowered investigators to expand their scope and approach, laying the groundwork for more comprehensive enforcement in the future.\n\n## … but using laws in practice requires training and 'learning by doing'\n\nDespite their new powers, the investigators still faced difficulties in tracing illicit financial flows and understanding complex financial transactions linked to environmental crimes. They lacked knowledge and practice in gathering financial intelligence, using investigative technology and cooperating with other agencies domestically or abroad.\n\nOngoing training in financial analysis and intelligence gathering can equip investigators with the necessary skills, tools and networks to tackle money laundering activities, including those linked to environmental crimes.\n\nA  'learning  by  doing'  approach  helps  -  i.e.  applying new skills in realistic case investigations, together with counterparts from other agencies.\n\n## The value of hands-on, inter-agency training\n\nAs part of an Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge  Fund  project, 6   the  Green  Corruption team of  the  Basel  Institute  on  Governance  has trained Indonesian law enforcement agencies to effectively  handle  money  laundering  cases  and track illicit financial flows tied to illegal logging and wildlife-related crimes with the follow-themoney approach.\n\nThe training brought together investigators and prosecutors  from  key  government  agencies, including from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Attorney General's Office and Financial Intelligence Unit. Participants formed inter-agency groups and collaborated on a realistic case scenario, with each person contributing based on their respective role. The training used practical tools and exercises to explain how criminals conceal money and other assets through shell companies, business fronts, real estate investments and tax havens.\n\nBesides training, the Basel Institute also supported the Ministry of Environment and Forestry in developing  guidelines  to  handle  money  laundering cases,  providing  technical  knowledge  on  the investigation process.\n\nIt  was  just  a  few  months  after  the  training  that the Ministry's investigators, in collaboration with the  Attorney  General's  Office  and  the  Financial Intelligence Unit, achieved their first successful convictions for money laundering related to forest crimes.\n\n## Real cases - even when modest - can have a big impact\n\nThis case set a precedent for integrating financial crime investigations into environmental crime cases.\n\nEven  though  the  amount  of  money  laundered  in  this particular case was relatively low - and the fines Supono was sentenced to pay were a small fraction of that amount - the case has opened the door to tackling more complex, high-value cases in the future.\n\nThis first case also played an important role in helping the Ministry of Environment and Forestry's investigators to:\n\n- · shift their perspective from investigating illegal logging crimes only to handling money laundering offences; and\n- · move  from  a  general  understanding  of  money laundering in theory to handling real-life cases in practice.\n\nWhile training and guidelines were necessary to support the process, the real case itself served as a critical opportunity to identify both obstacles and solutions in applying the follow-the-money approach.\n\n## Both leaders and frontline investigators need to take action\n\nEvery natural resource trafficking case has a potential for exploring money laundering due to the amount of money involved in this type of crime.\n\nA  successful  investigation  requires  initiative from investigators and support from decision-makers. In this case of illegal logging in Alas Purwo National Park:\n\n- · The Ministry of Environment and Forestry's Director General and Director of Investigation encouraged investigators to adopt the follow-the-money approach.\n- · At the technical level, investigators put this encouragement  into  action,  demonstrating  their commitment  to  following  the  money  in  existing predicate crime cases.\n\n## Inter-agency collaboration is vital\n\nCoordination between the relevant agencies from the outset of the investigation has been pivotal to concluding the case successfully. The mutual understanding between counterparts from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Attorney General's Office and Financial Intelligence Unit provided a strong foundation for the enforcement process.\n\n## Keywords\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\nIndonesia\n\nEnvironmental crimes\n\nIllegal logging\n\nMoney laundering\n\nFinancial investigation\n\n## About this Case Study\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, ISSN 2813-3900. It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0  International  Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).\n\nSuggested citation: Anindito, Lakso. 2025. 'Indonesia: a  landmark  money  laundering  conviction  in  a  forestry crime case.' Case Study 12, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002F cs-12.\n\n## Acknowledgment and disclaimer\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\nThe  development  of  this  publication  was funded through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund.\n\nThe contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->\n\n\u003C!-- image -->","2025-11-25T17:05:34.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:56.000Z","- In a case of illegal logging in Alas Purwo National Park, investigators of Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry obtained their first money laundering conviction.\n- This achievement was made possible through a 2021 Constitutional Court decision extending the power to pursue money laundering offences to investigators in charge of predicate offences, in this case timber trafficking. This power was previously limited to investigators of traditional law enforcement agencies, including the police and the Corruption Eradication Commission.\n- Training and technical assistance by the Green Corruption programme of the Basel Institute on Governance contributed to strengthening law enforcement capacities to effectively handle money laundering cases and track illicit financial flows tied to environmental crimes.\n- Sustained coordination and collaboration among the Ministry, Indonesia’s Financial Intelligence Unit and the Attorney General’s Office were pivotal in applying the follow-the-money approach to the illegal logging case.\n- Businessman Supono was convicted initially of illegally trading rosewood and later of laundering approximately USD 127,000 he had obtained through log trading. In both cases, he was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay a fine.\n- Although the amount of money laundered in this case and the imposed fines were relatively modest, the case set a precedent for integrating financial crime investigations into environmental enforcement. This paves the way for future, larger-scale prosecutions by investigators of environmental agencies.","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcs-12",{"id":341,"slug":342,"title":343,"status":6,"nid":344,"year":222,"body":345,"external":19,"topic":346,"language":15,"type":347,"date_published":348,"image":349,"citation":14,"publisher":191,"link_internal":350,"link_external":352,"authors":355,"countries":360,"tags":365,"pdf":372,"topics":374,"featured":19,"languages":375,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":376,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":377,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":378},1755,"quick-guide-25-tax-investigations-and-illegal-wildlife-trade","Quick Guide 25: Tax investigations and illegal wildlife trade",2203,"What role could tax investigations play in detecting, investigating and prosecuting cases of illegal wildlife trade? Potentially a large one, with the right coordination and capacity.\n\nThis quick guide by Jovile Mungyereza, Financial Investigation Specialist in our \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption\">Green Corruption programme\u003C\u002Fa> and former Tax Investigations manager at the Uganda Revenue Authority, gives a brief introduction to the surprisingly under-researched and under-utilised possibility of using tax laws and investigations to target high-level wildlife traffickers.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nThis work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>, and was funded by the UK Government through the IWT Challenge Fund.",[186,225],[188],"2022-03-22","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F6bcde8d5-09b0-457e-8a02-636ed30da269?width=600&height=840",[351],{"url":271,"caption":272},[353],{"url":354,"caption":276},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=124",[356],{"authors_id":357},{"id":358,"name":359},350,"jovile.mungyereza",[361],{"countries_id":362},{"id":363,"name":364},226,"Uganda",[366,368,370],{"tags_id":367},{"id":102,"name":103},{"tags_id":369},{"id":86,"name":87},{"tags_id":371},{"id":248,"name":249},[373],1784,[212,225],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:14.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:04.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-25-tax-investigations-and-illegal-wildlife-trade",{"id":380,"slug":381,"title":382,"status":6,"nid":383,"year":222,"body":384,"external":19,"topic":385,"language":15,"type":386,"date_published":387,"image":388,"citation":14,"publisher":389,"link_internal":390,"link_external":397,"authors":401,"countries":402,"tags":403,"pdf":412,"topics":414,"featured":19,"languages":415,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":416,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":417,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":418},1767,"combating-virtual-assets-based-money-laundering-and-crypto-enabled-crime","Combating virtual assets-based money laundering and crypto-enabled crime: Recommendations of the Tripartite Working Group on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies",2162,"These seven Recommendations emerge from the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002F5CrC\">5th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies\u003C\u002Fa>, held virtually on 7-8 December 2021.\n\nThe annual conference is organised by the Working Group on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies, a tripartite initiative of the Basel Institute on Governance, INTERPOL and Europol that dates back to 2014 and was formally established in 2016.\n\nThe Recommendations are intended to guide law enforcement, judicial authorities, regulators and the private sector in broad approaches that are necessary to protect citizens and the global economy from the risks of abuse of cryptocurrencies and other virtual assets.\n\nThey cover:\n\n\n- International cooperation\n- Virtual asset recovery\n- Public-private cooperation\n- Harmonised regulation and its effective implementation\n- Investigative techniques and technologies\n- Capacity building\n- Multidisciplinary approach, including through specialised law enforcement units\n\n\n ",[21,186],[30],"2022-01-13","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F09f447ee-5e4c-4bb2-8cd2-cec0221ccfac?width=600&height=840","Basel Institute on Governance; INTERPOL; Europol",[391,394],{"url":392,"caption":393},"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002F5crc"," 5th Global Conference web page",{"url":395,"caption":396},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fthousands-gather-virtually-to-share-knowledge-of-virtual-assets-based-money-laundering-and-other-crypto-enabled-crimes-2145"," View press release",[398],{"url":399,"caption":400},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fplaylist?list=PLYRnhpCcnLP_4ZHA3Fg0xu2FY6QhQg8YT"," YouTube playlist - Conference day 1",[],[],[404,406,410],{"tags_id":405},{"id":118,"name":119},{"tags_id":407},{"id":408,"name":409},854,"Virtual assets",{"tags_id":411},{"id":207,"name":208},[413],1789,[21,212],[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:22.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:05.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fcombating-virtual-assets-based-money-laundering-and-crypto-enabled-crime",{"id":420,"slug":421,"title":422,"status":6,"nid":423,"year":424,"body":425,"external":19,"topic":426,"language":15,"type":428,"date_published":430,"image":431,"citation":14,"publisher":191,"link_internal":432,"link_external":439,"authors":440,"countries":445,"tags":446,"pdf":465,"topics":467,"featured":19,"languages":469,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":470,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":471,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":472},1798,"working-paper-36-revealing-networks-behind-corruption-and-money-laundering-schemes","Working Paper 36: Revealing the networks behind corruption and money laundering schemes: an analysis of the Toledo–Odebrecht case using social network analysis and network ethnography",2050,2021,"This working paper is based on an empirical investigation of corruption and illicit exchange related to the so-called “Lava Jato” or “Odebrecht” scandal. Focusing on former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo and his laundering of bribes obtained from the construction giant Odebrecht, the analysis aims to test the usefulness of applying a network lens to better understand the mechanisms underlying grand corruption cases. It also aims to further illuminate the nexus between corruption and money laundering and the role of hidden and offshore financial infrastructures in facilitating the illicit schemes. \n\nThe research used a combination of social network analysis and network ethnography techniques to explore the following questions: \n\n\n- How do money laundering activities and offshore financial infrastructures sustain corruption? \n- Who are the key actors involved, how do they interact and what is their division of labour? \n- How do actors and clusters govern the social-financial web of relations? \n\n\nAnswering these questions with empirical evidence related to a specific case makes it possible to better understand how the connection between corruption and money laundering using offshore financial infrastructure works. It also supports the emerging understanding of corruption as a collective, transnational and financially advanced phenomenon. \n\n### About this report\n\nThis paper is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper Series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type[]=255\">ISSN: 2624-9650\u003C\u002Fa>.\n\nIt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). \n\nSuggested citation: Costa, J., 2021. *Revealing the networks behind corruption and money laundering schemes: an analysis of the Toledo–Odebrecht case using social network analysis and network ethnography*. Working Paper 36, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fworking-paper-36-revealing-networks-behind-corruption-and-money-laundering-schemes\">https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fworking-paper-36-revealing-net…\u003C\u002Fa>",[21,186,427],"Public Governance",[30,429],"Working Paper","2021-07-08","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fb9766eed-37a9-40e2-97d0-3b05e149b633?width=600&height=840",[433,436],{"url":434,"caption":435},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fnew-analysis-of-the-toledo-odebrecht-case-illuminates-the-complex-transnational-networks-behind-corruption-and-money-laundering-schemes-2051"," Summary \u002F blog by author",{"url":437,"caption":438},"\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications?type=Working%20Paper"," View all Working Papers",[],[441],{"authors_id":442},{"id":443,"name":444},304,"Jacopo Costa",[],[447,451,455,459,461],{"tags_id":448},{"id":449,"name":450},879,"Money laundering",{"tags_id":452},{"id":453,"name":454},1309,"Informality",{"tags_id":456},{"id":457,"name":458},1373,"Corruption prevention",{"tags_id":460},{"id":118,"name":119},{"tags_id":462},{"id":463,"name":464},973,"Corruption",[466],1833,[21,212,468],"Corruption Prevention and Public Governance",[15],"2022-04-27T11:53:43.000Z","2026-06-02T14:08:41.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fworking-paper-36-revealing-networks-behind-corruption-and-money-laundering-schemes",{"id":474,"slug":475,"title":476,"status":6,"nid":477,"year":478,"body":479,"external":19,"topic":480,"language":15,"type":481,"date_published":482,"image":483,"citation":14,"publisher":191,"link_internal":484,"link_external":486,"authors":490,"countries":493,"tags":494,"pdf":507,"topics":509,"featured":19,"languages":510,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":511,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":512,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":513},2295,"pb-12","Policy Brief 12: De-risking of Russian clients: best intentions, unintended consequences",2480,2023,"After the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the wide-reaching sanctions which ensued, many Western financial institutions began to de-risk Russian clients. Dealing with Russian clients, in many cases, has become expensive from a compliance point of view and toxic from the reputational side.\n\nHowever, the de-risking of unsanctioned Russian individuals may have a significant impact on the fight against financial crime by potentially causing:\n\n\n- an increase in the use of shadow\u002Funregulated channels of moving money;\n- a withdrawal of funds away from the European zone to sanctioned countries or non-cooperative jurisdictions;\n- severe burdens on the investigation of financial crimes (especially in relation to Russian assets and investments) and on international cooperation in criminal matters;\n- increased opportunities for enablers, such as unscrupulous lawyers and accountants, to take advantage of the situation.\n\n\nThis Policy Brief outlines the current situation and suggests how to better manage risk without having a negative impact on the fight against financial crime.\n\n### About this Policy Brief\n\nThis publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Policy Brief series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type[]=257\">ISSN 2624-9669\u003C\u002Fa> and relates to the Basel AML Index of money laundering risk.\n\nYou may freely share or republish it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa>). Suggested citation: Boguslavska, Kateryna. 2023. ‘De-risking of Russian clients: best intentions, unintended consequences.’ Policy Brief 12, Basel Institute on Governance, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fpb-12\">https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fpb-12\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21,186],[227],"2023-06-30","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F8013d7b0-82aa-46f8-bde7-a8790f71a59e?width=600&height=840",[485],{"url":232,"caption":233},[487],{"url":488,"caption":489},"https:\u002F\u002Findex.baselgovernance.org\u002F"," Visit Basel AML Index website",[491],{"authors_id":492},{"id":280,"name":281},[],[495,497,501,505],{"tags_id":496},{"id":118,"name":119},{"tags_id":498},{"id":499,"name":500},1236,"Compliance",{"tags_id":502},{"id":503,"name":504},1227,"Sanctions",{"tags_id":506},{"id":207,"name":208},[508],2333,[21,212],[15],"2023-06-30T08:38:07.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:08.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fpb-12",{"id":515,"slug":516,"title":517,"status":6,"nid":298,"year":478,"body":518,"external":19,"topic":519,"language":15,"type":520,"date_published":521,"image":522,"citation":14,"publisher":191,"link_internal":523,"link_external":524,"authors":527,"countries":532,"tags":533,"pdf":538,"topics":541,"featured":19,"languages":542,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":543,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":544,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":545},2276,"quick-guide-29-money-laundering-and-sanctions-evasion-using-art-market","Quick Guide 29: Money laundering and sanctions evasion using the art market","The art market is often described as ‘niche’. In reality, it is a significant trade industry: sales of art and antiques by dealers and auction houses reached an estimated USD 65.1 billion in 2021. And like many industries of this size, it attracts people seeking to abuse it to launder proceeds of crime or evade sanctions.\n\nThis quick guide briefly explains the unique characteristics of the art market that make it vulnerable to this type of abuse. It also outlines steps that jurisdictions can take to prevent and combat abuse of the sector for illicit purposes.\n\n### About this Quick Guide\n\nThis work is licensed under a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License\u003C\u002Fa>. It is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Quick Guide series, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428\">ISSN 2673-5229\u003C\u002Fa>.",[21,186],[188],"2023-04-12","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F8029c862-8f97-4c17-8c3d-570ea42a1ba4?width=600&height=840",[],[525],{"url":526,"caption":276},"https:\u002F\u002Flearn.baselgovernance.org\u002Fcourse\u002Fview.php?id=176",[528],{"authors_id":529},{"id":530,"name":531},306,"Andrew Dornbierer",[],[534,536],{"tags_id":535},{"id":449,"name":450},{"tags_id":537},{"id":118,"name":119},[539,540],2312,2313,[21,212],[15],"2023-04-12T10:04:20.000Z","2026-05-31T22:52:11.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fquick-guide-29-money-laundering-and-sanctions-evasion-using-art-market",{"id":547,"slug":548,"title":549,"status":6,"nid":550,"year":222,"body":551,"external":19,"topic":552,"language":15,"type":553,"date_published":554,"image":555,"citation":14,"publisher":191,"link_internal":556,"link_external":560,"authors":564,"countries":571,"tags":576,"pdf":587,"topics":589,"featured":19,"languages":590,"summary":7,"programme":7,"area":7,"websites":7,"pdf_text":7,"sort":7,"user_created":46,"date_created":591,"user_updated":47,"date_updated":592,"main_points":7,"short_version":7,"subtitle":7,"link":593},2232,"wp-41","Working Paper 41: Targeting unexplained wealth in British Columbia",2288,"The final recommendation of the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia (‘the Commission’) urged the government to legislate an unexplained wealth order (‘UWO’) as part of a wider approach to counter the prevalence of money laundering and proceeds of crime in the province.\n\nThis document analyses the feasibility of this recommendation. It:\n\n\n- **briefly explains the concept of unexplained wealth** and how it can be targeted through legislative instruments;\n- **outlines the reasons** for which the Commissioner proposed a UWO for British Columbia;\n- **explains how a UK-style UWO works** and assess the probability that a mechanism of this kind would successfully recover unexplained wealth in British Columbia; \n- **addresses the constitutional issues** that may arise if a UK-style UWO was introduced, as outlined by former Supreme Court Justice, the Honourable Thomas A. Cromwell C.C., in his annexed opinion to the report;\n- **explains other legislative options** that target unexplained wealth (including those in Western Australia and Ireland) and assess their constitutional compatibility and potential effectiveness as compared to a UK-style UWO;\n- **explores the legal rights issues** that may arise if either a UK-style UWO or a traditional UWO was introduced; and\n- **outlines the legislative safeguards** that could be put in place to reduce the risk that any such mechanisms would negatively impact on established legal rights.\n\n\n### About and acknowledgements\n\nThis document has been prepared by experts working with the Basel Institute on Governance, an independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to countering corruption and other financial crimes, and the Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute, an organisation devoted to anti-corruption efforts and legislative change. The collaboration was facilitated by the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, an independent, non-partisan global centre that shapes and advances financial crime litigation practices for the future.\n\n### Open-access licence and citation\n\nThe publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Working Paper Series, ISSN: 2624-9650. It is licensed for sharing and republishing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby-nc-nd\u002F4.0\u002F\">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0\u003C\u002Fa>).\n\nSuggested citation: Dornbierer, Andrew, and Jeffrey Simser. 2022. “Targeting unexplained wealth in British Columbia: An analysis of Recommendation 101 of the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia.” Working Paper 41, Basel Institute on Governance. Available at: baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-41",[21,186],[429],"2022-10-03","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fffb4289a-9a4b-434e-92bb-f85b8268c774?width=600&height=840",[557],{"url":558,"caption":559},"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Ftargeting-unexplained-wealth-in-british-columbia-and-beyond-new-analysis-2287"," See related blog: Targeting unexplained wealth in British Columbia and beyond – new analysis",[561],{"url":562,"caption":563},"https:\u002F\u002Fillicitenrichment.baselgovernance.org\u002F"," See Illicit Enrichment, an open-access book and database on laws to target unexplained wealth",[565,567],{"authors_id":566},{"id":530,"name":531},{"authors_id":568},{"id":569,"name":570},511,"Jeffrey Simser",[572],{"countries_id":573},{"id":574,"name":575},36,"Canada",[577,581,583],{"tags_id":578},{"id":579,"name":580},821,"Unexplained wealth",{"tags_id":582},{"id":118,"name":119},{"tags_id":584},{"id":585,"name":586},1215,"Illicit financial flows",[588],2274,[21,212],[15],"2022-10-03T16:04:07.000Z","2026-06-02T14:09:02.000Z","\u002Fresources\u002Fpublications\u002Fwp-41",1780676590058]