Resilience to Transnational Organized Crime: The Roles of Financial Flows, Corruption, & Oversight
Channel: Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Date: 2021-04-15

Session Objectives:
Understand why three factors identified by the ENACT Organized Crime Index – anti-money laundering, economic regulatory enforcement, and government transparency and accountability – are important influences on African states’ resilience to TOC.
Describe the key elements of anti-money laundering (adherence to international standards), economic regulatory enforcement (rule of law and lack of TOC influence in trade/business), and government transparency and accountability (combating government corruption, oversight) that affect African states’ resilience to TOC.
Identify some of the current challenges African states face in making these resilience factors work, including the difficulties of using anti-money laundering and anti-corruption instruments to dismantle collusive networks involving state-embedded actors with criminal networks and foreign actors.