Financial Crime Online

Late December 2005 the Northern Bank in Belfast (Ireland) was robbed. Modus Operandi: Tiger Kidnap (see earlier posts). The criminals, some dressed as police officers, entered houses of bank employees and held their families at gunpoint, demanding that the employees assist them in the crime. The bank employees worked in cash centers of the bank and [...]

Levitt and Jacobson are the authors of the recently released study, “The Money Trail: Finding, Following and Freezing Terrorist Finances.” The LA Times published their call to keep following the money in the US anti terrorism strategy: The terrorist attacks on the transportation system in London in July 2005 killed 52 innocent people but only [...]

The Daily Telegraph (DT) cited from a British confidential report on the situation in Afghanistan. The growing opium will prolong the Taliban insurgency and therefor the deployment of troops. Although publically he is widely supported, doubts are growing whether president Karzai really is in control. DT reported that Karzai does not take up arms against [...]