Tracking funding is a critical part of the fight against terrorism
and as the threat has escalated, so has the development of
financial intelligence units (FIUs) designed to investigate
suspicious transactions. Terrorist Financing, Money Laundering, and
Tax Evasion: Examining the Performance of Financial Intelligence
Units provides a thorough analysis of the financing phenomenon from
the raising of funds to government agencies' efforts to interdict
them to measuring and monitoring the outcomes of these efforts.
This volume begins by presenting deep-rooted conflicts in the
Middle East, the United States, the Indian subcontinent, Northern
Ireland, and South America that have led to modern terrorism. It
describes recent developments in counterterrorism and discusses the
next steps in intelligence reform. Next, the author discusses how
financial crime is committed, examining the source of funds from
money laundering and tax evasion among others, and the transfer of
these funds. He then covers performance and risk management, and
the process of measuring performance using the balanced scorecard
method. The book presents an overview of anti-money laundering and
counterterrorist financing initiatives in several regions around
the globe: the European Union, Asia Pacific, North America, Latin
America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Africa. It
concludes with a survey of experts' opinions on the efficacy of
current programs and recommendations for improving government
performance in countering terrorist financing and related money
laundering and tax evasion. Knowing what to target and how to
measure results are essential for performance enhancement in
preventing and interdicting financial criminal activity.
Establishing the need for accurate assessment of the success and
failure of FIUs, the book demonstrates how monitoring and measuring
progress is a crucial part of financial interdiction efforts in the
fight against terrorism.
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Tue, 29 Nov 2011 | Review
by: Niall R.
I see this book as useful to the South African government, other African governments and governments of all developing countries especially those who have just begun to counter terrorist financing and money laundering. It provides performance indicators that these governments can adopt to solve financial crime. It also provides administrative solutions that financial intelligence units can implement to strengthen capacity to better cope with this problem.
Niall Roncon
Risk Manager
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