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Illicit financial flows : illicit narcotics transiting West Africa

Shaw, Mark - 2019

This paper explores the flow of illicit narcotics transiting West Africa. It is divided into four sections, providing an overview of the nature and scope of the illicit narcotic economy, the networks and actors involved and its development impacts, including its resulting illicit financial...

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Illicit financial flows : illicit trade in counterfeit, pirated and substandard goods in Ghana

Lallerstedt, Karl - 2019

Illicit trade in goods that displace normally legal goods is an extensive global problem, which carries considerable development risks and losses for developing countries. Focusing on pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and consumer goods (which in itself consists of a broad range of goods), this...

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Sukh Ram - An Earlier Indian Telecommunications Corruption Scandal

Sutherland, Ewan - 2011

in cash. He was convicted in 2009 for having “disproportionate assets” under the Prevention of Corruption Act, fined and …

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Vulnerability and Exposure to Illicit Financial Flows Risk in Africa

Abugre, Charles - 2019

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Illicit financial flows : the role of Al Qaeda and its affiliates in the Islamic Maghreb

Kouts, Theodore - 2019

Illicit financial flows (IFFs) in West Africa have long contributed to the region’s instability, partly due to their links to regional terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). AQIM has directly and indirectly participated in and perpetuated illicit financial...

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Fighting African conflicts and crimes : which governance tools matter?

Asongu, Simplice; Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - 2013

is as follows: regulation quality, government effectiveness, political stability, rule of law and corruption-control. (3 …) Corruption-control is the most effective mechanism in fighting crime (conflicts). The findings are significantly strong when … population density. Justifications for the edge of corruption-control (as the most effective governance tool) and policy …

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From the Red Core to the Black Sky : Corporate Crime in the Transnational Matrix

Russell, Steve - 2006

Popular culture has presented a series of what Harlan Ellison might call "dangerous visions" wherein man's creations become his master. This trope is as old as speculative fiction, but The Matrix adds a new twist in that machines are able to project an alternate reality that hides the role...

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The interpenetration of criminal and lawful economic activities

Wallwaey, Elisa; Havas, Attila; Cuhls, Kerstin - 2022

As the world economy operates more and more through computerised transactions, new possibilities for intertwining criminal and lawful economic activities open up, as well as new opportunities for law enforcement agencies to fight crime. Considering the tremendous and potentially devastating...

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Is Model Accuracy Enough? A Field Evaluation Of A Machine Learning Model To Catch Bogus Firms

Barwahwala, Taha; Mahajan, Aprajit; Mittal, Shekhar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We investigate the use of a machine learning (ML) algorithm to identify fraudulent non-existent firms. Using a rich dataset of tax returns over several years in an Indian state, we train an ML-based model to predict fraudulent firms. We then use the model predictions to carry out field...

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Prevention of legalisation (laundering) of criminal proceeds in the mechanism of ensuring economic security of the state

Nazymko, Ehor; Volobuieva, Olena; Kryzhanovskyi, Oleksii - In: Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 9 (2023) 4, pp. 198-205

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