Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Virtual Assets Cases and Materials

This book presents case studies on financial crime, focusing on money laundering and terrorism finance. It includes real life examples to identify the characteristics of these crimes and discusses possible national and international measures to prevent it.

The book is divided into three sections. The first part of the book reviews international and national approaches and responses to the problems. The second part includes case summaries involving money laundering, terrorist financing or economic crime involving cryptocurrency in a range of countries. The third part of the book focuses on legal frameworks to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and misuse of virtual assets and includes materials from the UN, OECD, FATF, MDB and EU policies to address these issues.

Introduction.- Definitions of money laundering in Different Jurisdictions.- More on Money Laundering.- Common Schemes and Red Flags of Money Laundering.- Corporate and Other Controls.- More on Terrorist Financing.- New frontiers for Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing: i) crypto-currency, ii) DeFi and iii) NFT.- Supervision & Regulation, Investigation and Prosecution.- Money Laundering: UK and Scandinavian cases.- Money Laundering: Other cases.- Terrorist Financing.- Violating Economic Sanctions.- Virtual Assets.- International Materials.- National Materials.- Conclusion.

Duncan Smith was the Deputy Head of Fraud Investigations at the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg. He was responsible for policy, outreach and training. He has undertaken many investigations and resolved numerous high-profile cases. Duncan previously worked in a similar role at the World Bank Investigations Unit in Washington DC (USA) and has been a member of the Secretariat of the Conference for International Investigators from 2001 to 2017. He is a qualified barrister and prior to his international career, he worked in London at the DTI and Serious Fraud Office.

Duncan has written a number of recent articles for FCPA Blog and the Basel Institute on Governance and contributes to EIB Investigations’ annual Activity Report (published on EIB’s website). He has given presentations to many different audiences including students, practitioners and others at the Sorbonne and Cambridge Universities, ECB, OECD, American & International Bar Associations, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and various conferences.