ANTI CORRUPTION & TRANSPARENCY :
Globally, corruption saps economic growth, hinders development, destabilizes governments, undermines democracy, and provides openings for dangerous groups such as criminals, traffickers, and terrorists. The United States Rule of Law Institute Board council has designated anti-corruption as a core international security interest and released the first-ever Regional Strategy on Countering Corruption . To implement the strategy, the Anti Corruption & Transparency’s Department is working across the International Communities and organizations to prevent graft, strengthen investigation and prosecution of corruption, promote transparency, and empower civil society and independent media to expose corruption and advance reforms.s.
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Some criminals use the financial system to support terrorists or acts of terrorism. Terrorist financiers and other criminals use the formal financial system, new payment methods such as bitcoin and Ripple, traditional methods of value transfer such as hawala*, trade based money-laundering, and cash couriers, particularly in countries with non-existent or weak national anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) tools.
Money laundering is the process of making the proceeds of criminal activity appear to have been legally obtained. According to the IMF and World Bank, criminals launder an estimated two to nearly four trillion dollars each year. Among those who seek to disguise the illegal proceeds of their crimes are drug traffickers, terrorists, corrupt public officials, and organized criminal groups. Introducing illegally obtained funds into the stream of legitimate commerce and finance allows criminals to profit from their illegal activity, taints the international financial system, and erodes public trust in the integrity of the system.
The US Rule of Law institute represents serval international organizations & Communities in multilateral processes and organizations, such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and related regional bodies that develop and evaluate the implementation of international AKI/COL standards. USRLI also develops, funds, and implements technical assistance projects to build AML/CFT capacity in foreign countries in response to traditional and emerging threats, such as kidnapping for ransom, wildlife trafficking, exploitation of the gaming industry, and misuse of non-bank financial products including hawala and other unconventional and emerging payment methods.
Expose the infrastructure of criminal organizations, webs of corruption, and conspiracies to commit terror acts Provide authorities with roadmaps to those who facilitate criminal and illicit activities Lead to the recovery and forfeiture of unlawfully-acquired assets Support broad and effective deterrence efforts against a wide range of criminal activities, including the financing of terrorism. Only a comprehensive anti-money laundering regime which draws on such tools can prevent those that finance terrorism from succeeding