Making financial investigations into environmental crimes the norm
/Financial investigations are essential for identifying and evidencing who pays bribes to whom, enabling investigators to trace, seize and eventually confiscate the proceeds and instrumentalities of environmental crimes. Such investigations also help to identify the high-level actors behind wildlife trafficking, illegal unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, illegal logging, illegal mining and other activities – illuminating who finances those crimes and who profits from them. The use of financial tools emerged as the still-missing element in environmental crime investigations at an online discussion between members of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) Coalition’s Environmental Crime and Corruption working group. In that meeting in June 2022, the Basel Institute on Governance shared high-level learning on good practice from financial investigations and asset recovery research conducted under the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption project.
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