New challenges in financial supervision: environmental crime terrorism financing
Environmental crime terrorism financing is the collection, transfer, and use of terrorist-related funds or terrorist-related property in environmental crime. Terrorism financing methods through environmental crime include the trading of precious and endangered wild animals and plants. The characteri...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2024
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Trends in organized crime
Year: 2024, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 212-228 |
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Summary: | Environmental crime terrorism financing is the collection, transfer, and use of terrorist-related funds or terrorist-related property in environmental crime. Terrorism financing methods through environmental crime include the trading of precious and endangered wild animals and plants. The characteristics of terrorism financing through environmental crime include the intertwined use of many criminal means, ensuring difficulty in tracking the flow of funds through complex and hidden financing methods. It occurs in areas with dense natural resources and a weak financial supervision system. The harms of environmental terrorism financing include disruptions in the international financial and energy markets, breeding of corruption, invalidation of international financial anti-terrorism means, and damage to the ecological environment. Countermeasures include: Improvement in the understanding of environmental terrorism financing and the relevant legal and financial supervision systems. Undertaking different countermeasures against the ways of financing. Strengthening the cooperation to ensure information sharing. |
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ISSN: | 1936-4830 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s12117-023-09500-6 |