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Terrorist Finance
Kabul, Afghanistan
April 2006
History ofFinancial Transparency
• “Follow-the-Money”
• U.S. Bank Secrecy Act - 1970
• Creation of “financial intelligence”
• G-7 Creation of FATF – 1988
• FATF 40 Recommendations
• Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units - 1995
What is Financial Intelligence?
• Many different examples:
• Records of large cash deposits
• Cross-border currency reports
• Large cash purchases
• Casino reports
• Suspicious Transaction Reports
Purpose of Financial Intelligence
• Gives investigators a “paper-trail”
• Key tool in the War on Narcotics
• Useful in other “predicate offenses” for money laundering
• Money laundering is the “inverse partner” of terrorist finance
Osama bin Laden:Osama bin Laden:
“Attempts to find and freeze assets will not make any difference to al-Qaida or other jihad groups. Al-Qaida is comprised of modern, educated young people who are as aware of the cracks in the western financial system as they are of the lines in their own hands. These are the very flaws in western financial system which is becominga noose for it.”
“Attempts to find and freeze assets will not make any difference to al-Qaida or other jihad groups. Al-Qaida is comprised of modern, educated young people who are as aware of the cracks in the western financial system as they are of the lines in their own hands. These are the very flaws in western financial system which is becominga noose for it.”
47%
8%10%
1%
34%
Cash Travelers Checks
Misc Cks from Individuals
Wire Transfers
42%
2%11%
13%
15%
12%
2% 3%
Cash Lodging
Misc Aviation
Airlines Cks to Individuals
Automotive Balance in a/c
September 11Totals for 19 Hijackers
Deposits $303,481.63 Disbursements $303,671.62
Other Terrorist Attacks
• 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania - $50,000
• 2000 attack on USS Cole in Aden - $10,000
• 2002 bombings in Bali – $50,000• 2003 attacks in Istanbul - $40,000• 2004 attacks in Madrid – about $10,000
Source: United Nations
War on Terrorist Finance:Response to Date
• Designations• UN 1267 Committee’s “Consolidated List”• Results:
$112 million “blocked” by December 2001$150 million – cumulative – by January 2006$60 million actually “seized”
Effective?
Response - continued
• Charities
• Cash
• Rules/Regulations/Reporting Requirements
Saddam’s $$$
We have ignored Informal Value Transfer Systems
• Hawala• Misuse of international gold trade• Diamond/gem trade• Commodity/narcotics exchange• Trade-based value transfer
• Common denominator:Common denominator:
TRADETRADE
Hawala
Hawala Markings on Currency Seized in Iraq
The golden age of crime
Why international drug traffickers are
invading the global gold trade
World Report, November 1999
U.S. Islamic Cash Outlets Investigated‘Hawalas’ Suspected in Terror Funding
The Washington Post, November 2001
In Gold We TrustWired, January 2002
Al Qaeda’s Road Paved With Gold
Secret Shipments Traced Through a Lax System in United Arab Emirates
The Washington Post, February 2002
The Afghan-Gold ConnectionThe Afghan-Gold Connection
Laundering of Diamonds/Gems
• Diamond/Gem “Pipeline”
point of origin to sale
• Mining,
trading, cutting,
polishing,
retailing
Laundering along “Pipeline”
• Striking similarities to money laundering• Illicit diamonds “placed, layered, and
integrated”• Facilitated by smuggling, corruption,
porous borders• Neither the Kimberly Process nor
proposed anti-money laundering rules for diamond dealers will be effective in combating the laundering of diamonds
Colombian Black Market Exchange
Afghan Narcotics/Commodity Exchange
Questions?
John Cassara