Financial flows associated with illegal wildlife trade: lessons from case reviews in South Africa

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  "id": 195,
  "title": "Financial flows associated with illegal wildlife trade: lessons from case reviews in South Africa",
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  "body": "<a href=\"https://baselgovernance.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-mvqzwvGN0Qrkj_ErZkNewrOcvcyIpr#/registration\">\n  \n      \n              \n\n\n      \n  \n</a>\n\n\nAt the next public meeting of the Follow-the-Money Working Group, Johan Jooste, National Section Commander for Wildlife Trafficking at the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), and Shelley Brown, Senior Manager of the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit at the ABSA Group, will talk about the financial flows associated with the illegal wildlife trade in South Africa and present lessons learned from case reviews.\n\nThe meeting will be held on Zoom in English with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and French. It is open to current members of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum and its Follow-the-Money Working Group, as well as those potentially interested in joining.\n\n\n- Date and time: 15 May, 15.00 CEST, 09.00 ET, 21:00 SGT\n- <a href=\"https://baselgovernance.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-mvqzwvGN0Qrkj_ErZkNewrOcvcyIpr#/registration\">Register here</a>\n\n\n### About\n\nThe Follow-The-Money Working Group is part of a broader <a href=\"https://environmental-corruption.org\">Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum</a> created in late 2022 by a consortium of leading conservation and anti-corruption organisations: WWF, TRAFFIC, Transparency International and the Basel Institute on Governance. The Follow-The-Money Working Group is coordinated by the Basel Institute.\n\nMembership is free and open to any professional working (or aspiring) to tackle the illicit finances of environmental criminals.\n\nThe monthly meeting is a chance for members to share best practices, challenges and updates on using follow-the-money techniques to detect, investigate and prosecute environmental criminals and their corrupt facilitators. Public meetings take place on a bi-monthly basis.\n\nThe meetings take place in English with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish and French.",
  "date_start": "2024-05-15",
  "date_end": "2024-05-15",
  "organiser": "Basel Institute on Governance",
  "type": "Event",
  "topics": [
    "Green Corruption"
  ],
  "nid": 2624,
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      "url": "https://baselgovernance.org/news/6th-basel-arbitration-crime-conference-updating-toolkit",
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  "slug": "financial-flows-associated-with-illegal-wildlife-trade-lessons-from-case-reviews-in-south-africa-2624"
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