This publication comprises of twenty two cases which have been included to provide examples of a financial investigation and the analytical processes demonstrated by the various FIUs in their work.
A key objective of this publication is to produce a valuable reference for FIUs, enabling the financial crime prevention community the opportunity to share and learn from experience. The following cases show how investigations were initiated and progressed through to successful money laundering cases. They demonstrate how FIUs developed their investigation from available information to produce an intelligence product and valuable evidence to support a prosecution.
The topics covered by the case studies are:
The topics covered by the case studies are:
- Corruption, Money Laundering, and Terrorist Resourcing in the Middle East;
- Money Laundering, Corruption, and the importance of international exchange;
- Corruption in the Civil Service;
- Multiple Heroin importation syndicates dismantled;
- Afghan Heroin;
- The illegal supply of drugs into Nusakambangan Prison;
- Efraim Diveroli/AEY Investigation – The supply of banned arms;
- Structuring in an effort to avoid tax;
- Operation Arboria – A Ponzi Scheme;
- Money Laundering and Conspiracy to Defraud – A Ponzi Scheme;
- The Fiji Turtle Island Resort Case: Forgery, Fraud, Money Laundering, and Non-Conviction Based Forfeiture;
- Money Laundering by Fraudulent Western Union Agents;
- The misappropriation of municipal funds;
- Laundering the proceeds of illegal pornographic material;
- Human Trafficking - Modern day slavery;
- El Loco Barrera - Colombian Narcotrafficker;
- AUSTRAC information sparked investigation into illegal Money Remitter;
- Use of Foreign Bank to conceal source of funds;
- Operation Hammer;
- The use of shell companies and ‘Round-Robin’ type schemes to evade tax;
- Using legitimate businesses and NPOs to finance terrorism;
- Disrupting the financial and material resources of terrorism through civil forfeiture.
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