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Author Haenlein, Cathy, author

Title Follow the money : using financial investigation to combat wildlife crime / Cathy Haenlein and Tom Keatinge
Published London, United Kingdom : Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 32 pages)
Series RUSI occasional paper, 2397-0286
RUSI occasional paper. 2397-0286
Contents Executive summary. -- Introduction. -- I. Financial responses to wildlife crime: the current picture. -- II. Financial investigation: a new front against wildlife crime? -- III. Following the money: challenges and opportunities. -- Conclusions
Summary Wildlife crime is not simply a crime against wildlife: it is organised financial crime conducted on an industrial and transnational scale for profit. For other crime types, financial investigation is viewed as central to identifying not only the individual criminal but also their network of facilitators. Yet where wildlife crime is concerned, financial investigation is not employed on anything approaching a systematic basis. This paper argues that there is an urgent need for those charged with disrupting wildlife crime to add a financial dimension to their approach. The paper refers primarily - but not exclusively - to East Africa, and is the final output of a year-long project researching wildlife-linked illicit financial flows in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. In East Africa and across the supply chain, this paper advocates for greater use of financial tools to disrupt the accomplices, facilitators and support networks of those engaged in this crime. The paper makes the following recommendations to reach this objective, focusing specifically on the changes required to respond to the financial motives of those involved
Notes "September 2017."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes "This paper was funded by the UK government through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund."
Online resource; title from PDF title page (RUSI, viewed September 27, 2017)
Subject Wildlife crimes -- Finance -- Prevention
Wildlife crime investigation.
Forensic accounting.
International crimes -- Prevention
Forensic accounting.
Wildlife crime investigation.
Form Electronic book
Author Keatinge, Tom, author
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, publisher.