Superintelligence
AS if things were not hard enough for universities with declining enrolments and soaring costs, a new spectre has descended over them in the shape of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an…
Countering illicit financial flows
The illicit movement of funds is a global challenge, threatening domestic and international financial systems. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has recently highlighted that the total…
Countering financial crimes
In recent days, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has taken many steps to enforce internal accountability mechanism to uproot corruption/malpractices within the organisation. The steps like making Chief Commissioners as…
Intelligence without ‘intelligence’
Imagine being smart but dumb. Imagine being visionary but blind. Imagine being intelligent but clueless. That is how most Pakistanis felt when New Zealand cricket officials decided just hours before…
Unlocking the financial safe havens
One does not know the exact amount that has been siphoned-off to foreign safe havens by our corrupt lot. The very clandestine nature of the activity renders it impossible to…
Strengthening NAB’s financial crime wing
When NAB was established in 1999 the initial target was to go after those who had committed bank frauds and/or did not return the loans taken on flimsy pretexts. The…
Crime and terrorism: Financial challenges – I
INTRODUCTION: This paper seeks to integrate the efforts made by individual group activity members while studying and analysing the manifold directions of money laundering and terrorist financing. The topics assigned…
Crime and terrorism: Financial challenges – II
Risk-based approach: Nations are operating within a comprehensive international framework that deters financial crime and terrorism in the first place; detects it when it happens and disrupts the activities of…
In Peru, a gold mining battle rages over registry of ‘impunity’
Thousands of gold miners camped out in the centre of the Peruvian capital and blocked the main highway this week to protest government plans to regulate illegal mining that experts…
Dollar bullets
Trump is halting bloody bullet wars, only to ignite bloody trade wars. Meanwhile, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States…
