Money Laundering through the Football Sector

Money Laundering through the Football Sector

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-07-03

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9264073574

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This report is based on four main sources: an extensive literature review, the analysis of the answers to a questionnaire sent to FATF and FSRB members; the results of a typology workshop and subsequent consultation with the football sector. Results ...


Football, Gambling, and Money Laundering

Football, Gambling, and Money Laundering

Author: Fausto Martin De Sanctis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-05-05

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 3319056093

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Professional football means many things to many people. For players, a means to possible fame and fortune. For fans, a source of local or national pride, and perhaps the chance to score with a few bets. For criminal organizations, a cover for making millions in corrupt enterprises. In the world of gambling this is no different. Football, Gambling, and Money Laundering describes in impressive detail the scope of the problem, the layers of denial that allow sports-related financial crime to flourish, and the steps that are being taken--and that need to be taken--to combat illicit operations in the sports world. Expert analysis explains criminal activity in the context of football, and how sports governing bodies, the media, and others have created a culture that regularly turns a blind eye. International data and instructive legal case examples shed light on the role of the Internet in the spread of gambling and money laundering as well as the strengths and weaknesses of current law enforcement, legislative, and sports-based efforts in fighting corruption. Included in the coverage: • Criminal activity in the sports world • Financial crime and exploitation in football and gambling • Legal wagering and illegal betting, including online • Illegal and disguised payment instruments used by organized crime • International legal cooperation in combating money laundering • National and international proposals for improving the sports and gambling industries to prevent money laundering An authoritative reference to a growing and wide-reaching concern, Football, Gambling,and Money Laundering will find an interested audience among academics, prosecutors, judges, law enforcement officials, and others involved in efforts to curb corruption and money laundering in the world of football.


Good Practices in Addressing Illegal Betting: A Handbook for Horse Racing and Other Sports to Uphold Integrity

Good Practices in Addressing Illegal Betting: A Handbook for Horse Racing and Other Sports to Uphold Integrity

Author: The Anti-Illegal Betting Task Force of the Asian Racing Federation

Publisher: Asian Racing Federation

Published:

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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The Handbook, written by the Asian Racing Federation Council on Anti-illegal Betting and Related Financial Crime, aims to (1) highlight the risks to the integrity of racing and other sports from illegal betting-related sports corruption, and (2) provide practical guidance to administrators and other key stakeholders to mitigate against and combat such corruption. It has been written by the Council members, a group of experts from horse racing and sports integrity management, law enforcement, sports law, and international government relations. The Asian Racing Federation is a regional federation comprising 28 racing authorities and racing-related organisations, with a wide geographic spread from New Zealand to South Africa. Among its core objectives is the promotion of integrity in the sport of horse racing. The Asian Racing Federation Anti-Illegal Betting Taskforce was established in 2017 and now comprises 14 members from organisations engaged in horse racing and sports integrity, law enforcement, the UNODC, and academia. In October 2020, the task force was renamed as the Asian Racing Federation Council on Anti-illegal Betting & Related Financial Crime whose purpose is to foster and enhance international cooperation among horse racing operators, regulators, intergovernmental organisations and government agencies in order to better combat the threat of illegal betting and other financial crimes to horse racing integrity in particular, and sport in general.


International Co-operation in Civil and Criminal Matters

International Co-operation in Civil and Criminal Matters

Author: David McClean

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 0191637211

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For over a century states have co-operated in providing evidence for use in civil trials in other countries. The growth of international crimes such as drug-trafficking, money-laundering, terrorism, and insider-trading now pose a substantial threat to the economies and stability of states, and governments and international organizations have been quick to expand past experience into a variety of responses - both diplomatic and institutional - to the new international crimes. This book sets out the law applicable to co-operation between states in these areas, and investigates the relevant practice and case law. It discusses both the civil and criminal dimensions of international co-operation. The new edition incorporates the vast number of developments that have taken place since the previous edition published in 2002, including the European Union's resolve to build an area of freedom, security, and justice, and the recent major update of the Commonwealth Scheme.


Technology-Enhanced Methods of Money Laundering

Technology-Enhanced Methods of Money Laundering

Author: Fausto Martin De Sanctis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-06

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 3030183300

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This book identifies and examines the novel ways in which money is laundered internationally through illegal activities on the internet, focusing on sales, payments, social media, online gaming, and tax misapplication. Technology-enhanced methods that enable money laundering are now a significant portion of malicious cyber activities and deterring its commission is a high order priority. Although powered by modern tools, investigators, prosecutors, judges and regulatory agencies in most countries are not equipped to accurately detect, investigate and prosecute this type of criminal activity. It makes a case for broader institutional and regulatory improvement, formulating a basis for detecting evolving money laundering schemes with multiple focuses on sales, payments, social media, online gaming, and tax misapplication. Revealing the newest techniques used by criminals, currently neglected by law enforcement in most countries, and discusses the best approaches to combat these crimes, this book will be useful as a guide for law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, and others involved in efforts to curb online crimes.


Anti-Money Laundering

Anti-Money Laundering

Author: Waleed Alhosani

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1137594551

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This book critically analyses the role of the United Arab Emirates Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in the Suspicious Activities Reports regime. The author pays particular attention to its functions and powers in dealing with Suspicious Activities Reports and relevant requirements imposed upon the reporting entities. In the analysis, the author also compares the United Arab Emirates FIU model to the United Kingdom FIU model. In addition, the book investigates whether the current United Arab Emirates FIU model complies with the relevant international recommendations developed by the Financial Action Task Force in relation to the establishment of the unit, as well as its powers and functions. This book suggests that more can be done to improve the current functions and powers of the United Arab Emirates FIU in an international context. Furthermore, the author suggests that the functions and powers of the United FIU model both comply with the international requirements and beneficially extend beyond their directives.


Match-Fixing in International Sports

Match-Fixing in International Sports

Author: M.R. Haberfeld

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-23

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 3319025821

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Match –fixing has become a widespread international problem in recent years. It includes everything from bribery of players, to putting undue influences on the owners of the soccer clubs, managers, coaches and others who have the ability to affect the final scores. In addition, match-fixing spills over into the arena of illegal betting (in person and online), which creates a host of additional organized crime opportunities, including human trafficking, prostitution, drugs, extortion and even terrorism. This timely volume brings together international contributions with an aim is to increase awareness of the problems associated with match-fixing and the degree to which key agents in sport, particularly young people, are vulnerable. The contributions are based on INTERPOL’s Global Experts Meeting in Singapore, in November 2012, which brought together key speakers to discuss issues surrounding match-fixing and how to combat corruption in football through channels of education. The purpose of this meeting was to identify ways that academia can play a role in developing and implementing training modules and academic courses, including certification procedures, to prevent match-fixing and develop lines of study at all educational levels. This unique work reflects the gravity of the situation around the world together with possible solutions.


Online Gambling and Crime

Online Gambling and Crime

Author: James Banks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1317085604

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Offering the first empirically driven assessment of the development, marketisation, regulation and use of online gambling organisations and their products, this book explores the relationship between online gambling and crime. It draws upon quantitative and qualitative data, including textual and visual analyses of e-gambling advertising and the records of player-protection and standards organisations, together with a virtual ethnography of online gambling subcultures, to examine the ways in which gambling and crime have been approached in practice by gamers, regulatory agencies and online gambling organisations. Building upon contemporary criminological theory, it develops an understanding of online gambling as an arena in which risks and rewards are carefully constructed and through which players navigate, employing their own agency to engage with the very real possibility of victimisation. With attention to the manner in which online gambling can be a source of criminal activity, not only on the part of players, but also criminal entrepreneurs and legitimate gambling businesses, Online Gambling and Crime discusses developments in criminal law and regulatory frameworks, evaluating past and present policy on online gambling. A rich examination of the prevalence, incidence and experience of a range of criminal activities linked to gambling on the Internet, this book will appeal to scholars and policy makers in the fields of sociology and criminology, law, the study of culture and subculture, risk, health studies and social policy.


Research Handbook on Money Laundering

Research Handbook on Money Laundering

Author: Brigitte Unger

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 0857934007

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Although the practice of disguising the illicit origins of money dates back thousands of years, the concept of money laundering as a multidisciplinary topic with social, economic, political and regulatory implications has only gained prominence since the 1980s. This groundbreaking volume offers original, state-of-the-art research on the current money laundering debate and provides insightful predictions and recommendations for future developments in the field. The contributors to this volume academics, practitioners and government representatives from around the world offer a number of unique perspectives on different aspects of money laundering. Topics discussed include the history of money laundering, the scale of the problem, the different types of money laundering, the cost to the private sector, and the effectiveness of anti-money laundering policies and legislation. The book concludes with a detailed and insightful synthesis of the problem and recommendations for additional steps to be taken in the future. Students, professors and practitioners working in economics, banking, finance and law will find this volume a comprehensive and invaluable resource.


Money laundering and the financing of terrorism

Money laundering and the financing of terrorism

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2009-07-22

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780108444715

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This report calls on the UK Government to investigate how piracy and laundering the proceeds of crime contribute to the financing of terrorism. The Government is complacent regarding the possibility of a link between piracy and terrorism. Shipowners putting together ransom money must seek consent for the payment and disclose how much is being paid, to whom, and where. The fight against money laundering depends on banks and others providing reports of suspicious activities to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). 200,000 entries are made on their ELMER database each year, there are now 1.5 million entries, and most are kept for 10 years even where there is no evidence that the suspicious activity was criminal. The Information Commissioner must investigate this. The Committee considers the cost and resource impact on banks and others in the private sector in making Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and the lack of feedback about their effectiveness. States must share information about the movement of money, especially information about suspicious bank accounts. The Warsaw Convention on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing is the first comprehensive international treaty covering both the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism. But the UK has yet to sign it, let alone ratify it. The Committee believe this is indefensible. They call on Ministers to set an urgent timetable for signature and ratification. The Committee also criticise the failure to implement the EU Framework Decision on mutual recognition of confiscation orders.