Corporate Vehicles and Illicit Finance – Policy Recommendations
IntroductionHow are “corporate vehicles” (like companies, trusts and partnerships) misused by criminals and other unethical people to control, conceal and convert their illicit finances? This was the subject of investigation by Dr Nicholas Lord (University of...
Corporate Vehicles and the Organisation of Illicit Finances: A Criminological Perspective
In July 2018, a joint report from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Egmont Group provided an overview of the range of techniques and mechanisms that criminals use to obscure their ownership and control of illicitly obtained assets, in particular via...
Managing Illicit Finances Using “Corporate Vehicles”: PaCCS Policy Briefing
ForewordHow are “corporate vehicles” (like companies and partnerships) misused by criminals to control, conceal and convert illicit finances? This is the subject of investigation by Dr Nicholas Lord (University of Manchester), Professor Liz Campbell (Durham...
Corporate vehicles and the organisation of serious crimes for profit: key definitions and legal asymmetries
A central element of our project into the misuse of “corporate vehicles” for criminal purposes concerns the legal/policy meaning of these mechanisms and structures, and the extent to which their definitional parameters influence their use in managing illicit finances....
Researching the Use of Corporate Vehicles in the Organisation of Serious Crimes for Gain
At the start of 2017, our Partnership For Conflict Crime and Security Research-funded project into transnational organised crime began to gather momentum, with a project meeting in Rotterdam to set our research agenda for the coming 18 months. In this post, Nicholas...
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