RT Article
T1 Assessing money laundering risk across regions: an application in Italy
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 25
IS 1
SP 21
OP 43
A1 Riccardi, Michele
A2 Milani, Riccardo
A2 Camerini, Diana
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1666263656
AB Most money laundering (ML) risk assessments carried out in Europe and abroad are qualitative analyses at national aggregate level. To complement current knowledge, this paper – based on the findings of the European co-funded project IARM (Identifying and Assessing the Risk of Money laundering in Europe -www.transcrime.it/iarm) – proposes a new quantitative methodology to measure ML risk across regions in a country and tests it on the 110 Italian provinces. In particular, it develops a composite indicator of ML risk, which combines a variety of risk factors (classified as threats and vulnerabilities), such as organised crime, tax evasion, cash-intensiveness and opacity of business structure. The application of the methodology to Italy reveals that the areas with the highest (relative) ML risk are in the south of the country, in particular Calabria, with some exceptions in the centre (e.g. province of Prato) and in the north (e.g. Imperia). The developed risk indicator can support policy-makers and investigators in allocating anti-money laundering (AML) resources more effectively, but it can also be helpful for obliged entities such as banks and professionals to improve their “risk based” customer due diligence activities.
K1 Money laundering
K1 Risk assessment
K1 Organised crime
K1 Mafia
K1 Italy
K1 Principal component analysis
DO 10.1007/s10610-018-9399-9