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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…

Illicit financial flows in the region

A recent study (November 24, 2017) provides an assessment of routes, actors and sources of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and corruption in and between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal,…

Check-posts against white collar crimes

First, the medicine prices went through the roof. Next, it was the turn of Atta (wheat flour) and sugar prices, followed by “artificial shortage” of oil at a time when…

Financial instability

In 2016, this writer wrote as many as six articles on Offshore assets of Pakistani citizens, which have been compiled in the form of a book. This endeavour, however modest,…

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…

Illicit financial flows in the region

A recent study (November 24, 2017) provides an assessment of routes, actors and sources of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) and corruption in and between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal,…

Financial instability

In 2016, this writer wrote as many as six articles on Offshore assets of Pakistani citizens, which have been compiled in the form of a book. This endeavour, however modest,…

White-collar Crime

White-collar crime

White-collar crime is a “crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation”. White-collar crime is said to have three characteristics: it…

Cash, crime and large denominations

The European Central Bank (ECB), like most central banks around the world, has its hands full when it comes to executing monetary policy to propel economic growth.  The euro area’s…

White-collar Crime In The Eyes Of US Courts

White-collar crime in the eyes of US courts

The term white-collar crime represents a non-violent crime usually involving cheating or dishonesty in commercial matters and includes fraud, embezzlement and insider trading. It is a crime committed by a…