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New forms of, and risk factors for, high-level transnational corruption schemes
KLEPTOTRACE Handbook
Financial crime risk assessment
Machine learning insights into ownership structures in secrecy firms
The Varieties of Money Laundering and the Determinants of Offender Choices
Two images dominate discussion of money laundering. Investigative journalists and politicians stress the variety and sophistication of methods that have been used to launder money of corrupt officials and white collar offenders. The research literature, largely dependent on criminal cases, emphasizes how unsophisticated and routine are the laundering methods used…
Bid-rigging in public procurement: Cartel strategies and bidding patterns
Bid-rigging harms economies and societies. While existing research has primarily focused on quantifying the economic damages resulting from bid-rigging cartels, there is a relative dearth of studies exploring how firms interact and the specific techniques they use to rig tenders. Our paper examines the bidding behaviours associated with…
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals
Despite the wide reach of anti-money laundering legislation worldwide and increasing media attention, fostered by journalistic leaks such as Panama Papers, empirical knowledge on how criminals launder their illicit proceeds is still scarce. The few available empirical studies show that money laundering (ML) schemes are often less sophisticated than they are depicted…
Security in Retail in Italy 2023
The report “Security in Retail in Italy, 2023: a study on losses, thefts and security measures” is the result of the study conducted by Crime&tech on shrinkage and security in the retail and large-scale distribution sector, with the support of Checkpoint Systems Italia and in collaboration with Associazione Laboratorio per…
CSABOT – Beneficial Owners of European Companies
The paper “Beneficial Owners of European Companies (and Related Risks)” presents the research conducted by Transcrime, within the CSABOT project, on risk factors and anomaly indicators in the ownership structure of European companies. These indicators are then applied to 4,500 companies owning 505k real estate properties in Paris, mapping the…
AML Data Sharing
AML Data Sharing: a survey on sharing data for anti-money laundering purposes is the first research conducted in Italy and in Europe on the exchange of information between obliged entities for anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). The study consulted the 44 main Italian intermediaries (equivalent to…
Money Laundering Blacklists
What are the criteria used by Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the European Union to blacklist jurisdictions at high-risk of money laundering? What are the countries at highest risk according to Panama Papers and FinCEN files? Where do criminals move their illicit money, according to judicial and investigative evidence? This book answers…
EBOCS III
European Business Ownership and Control Structures
