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The restraint, recovery and repatriation of the corruptly acquired assets of public officials are key elements of the fight against corruption. This is a case-study of international efforts to recover the assets of a former Nigerian State Governor. The full range of criminal and civil asset recovery mechanisms were deployed, including criminal confiscation, civil forfeiture and private civil proceedings,...
The article examines the fraud and money laundering risks that arise in the regulated e-gaming sector and describes the kinds of measures taken by the sector itself against such risks. It establishes that the e-gaming sector uses a broad set of techniques to reduce the risks of fraud and money laundering and that, compared to methods of customer identification and monitoring in the off-line gaming...
This article examines developments in the seizure of criminal assets with a particular emphasis on the UK legislative history of the forfeiture of criminal proceeds, as well as focusing on the increasing importance of international asset-tracing and the need for mutual legal assistance in preventing and reducing the impact of cross-border crime. The legal history of UK legislation is traced up to...
The development of new concepts for tackling crime on the internet has been one of the priorities at both the national and international levels in recent years. One of the sectors where this problem poses specific challenges is money laundering over the internet. The paper seeks to contribute to the understanding of the complex problem of cyber-laundering by analysing the risks and challenges that...
This paper offers an analysis from the human rights point of view of Romanian legal provisions and judicial practice on money laundering, extended confiscation and freezing orders relating to money laundering.
The emerging concept of illicit financial flows has recently become a very topical issue on the international agenda. Due to the relative newness of this concept, there is still a lack of research on the nexus between these flows and information technologies, in particular, the internet. This paper seeks to contribute to the research on this problem from a broader perspective, linking the previously...
This article was inspired and is based on a seminar held in Athens in November 2017, under the title ‘The Life cycle of e-evidence: Handling e-evidence in online fraud cases’. This article points out some interesting issues that arose from the above seminar, and focuses especially on the topic of online financial crimes and fraud committed with electronic means of payment. The presented case law comes...
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