Tracing funds from environmental crimes - OECD/Basel Institute webinar
Channel: Basel Institute on Governance
Date: 2021-04-06

This virtual event on "Connecting the dots: Tracing funds from environmental crimes" took place on 17 March 2021 as part of the Corrupting the environment event series co-hosted by the OECD and the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption team. See https://baselgovernance.org/news/three-things-countries-and-companies-must-do-address-illegal-financial-flows-environmental for a summary.

The panelists highlighted three critical imperatives to tackle the hundreds of billions in illegal funds flowing annually from environmental crimes:

1. Proper assessments of financial crime risks arising from environmental crimes, by governments and the private sector.
2. More proactive cooperation across sectors and countries, through public-private partnerships and similar mechanisms.
3. Applying good ideas and effective tools from other areas of financial crime-fighting to the challenge of environmental crime.

Key timings:
5:45: Introduction by David Lewis, Executive Secretary of the FATF
11:45: Olivier de Perregaux, CEO LGT Private Banking, Liechtenstein
22:40: Werner Venter, Senior Manager, Financial Crime Intelligence Unit, Absa Group Ltd.
29:30: Daniel Thelesklaf, Anti-Money Laundering / Anti-Corruption Expert
35:45: Atuweni Juwayeyi-Agbermodji, AML/CFT Program Officer, UNODC Southern Africa; former Director General, Financial Intelligence Agency, Malawi
Q&A with the audience: 43:00