Sentences with phrase «other illicit trades»

To him, anonymity clearly means that it can be used even more conveniently for funding terror activities and other illicit trades such as drugs and weapons.

Not exact matches

The «modern technology services» discussed in the report point to cryptocurrencies and their usage to launder money derived from the illicit trade of firearms, drugs, human trafficking, and other organized crime.

Mirror trades were a favored conduit in the first half of this decade, regulators say, but they've been replaced by other mechanisms for moving money, including illicit reinsurance contracts and fraudulent court orders.

For years after Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled Bitcoin, the digital currency had a reputation for being a platform that primarily served drug trade and other forms of illicit spending.

These could come from armed groups such as the ELN, or one of the many right - wing and criminal groups involved in the illicit drug trade and other forms of transnational organised crime that plague the country.

More than 220,000 have been killed in the ensuing conflict which became every time more intertwined with the illicit drug trade, involving not only the FARC, but also other insurgent, paramilitary and criminal groups.

Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.

Risks such as terrorism, cybercrime, organized crime, environmental degradation, government breakdown, corruption, illicit trade, fiscal crises, social inequality, racial and religious violence, among others.

Le Carré's finest novel in years, it is also an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son - in - law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son.

The billions of dollars generated through such trade also fund criminal groups who use this money to branch out into other illicit and unethical lines of business.

UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon commended this innovative joint initiative between the two partner UN Agencies: «The illegal trade in goods and services often funds unscrupulous people involved in human trafficking, the illicit ivory trade and other areas that cause immense suffering and destruction.

Other key topics include museum studies, Egyptomania, Ancient Egyptian funerary customs, and the theft and trade of illicit antiquities.

As with tiger parts, exotic pets, elephant ivory, ebony and other rare, but coveted biological goods, stemming demand is as vital as clamping down on illicit trade.

I was glad to see Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, even amid so many other pressing foreign - policy challenges, committing the United States to doing more to cut the illicit trade in wildlife and related products.

With its nearly unlimited scope, largely unregulated access and relative anonymity, the Internet has emerged as the preferred method for the illicit trade of elephant ivory and other endangered animals and their parts.

The centerpiece is a series of short video advertisements, featuring Harrison Ford, discouraging people from buying pets, curios, medicines or other goods that are part of this $ 10 - billion - a-year illicit trade.

I'm pleased that the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury has written to me to welcome the establishment of the APPG, and I look forward to working with him and other ministers responsible for tackling illicit trade in the coming months.

Other key topics include museum studies, Egyptomania, Ancient Egyptian funerary customs, and the theft and trade of illicit antiquities.

Other key topics include museum studies, Egyptomania, Ancient Egyptian funerary customs, and the theft and trade of illicit antiquities.