The United Nations (UN) emphasizes the imperative need for a fundamental shift in addressing the pervasive issue of child trafficking, acknowledging the lack of effective measures implemented thus far. The International Labor Organization (ILO) underscores the alarming escalation of profits from forced labor, surpassing previous...

A major risk to the financial system is the misuse of business entities to mask illicit activities and launder ill-gotten gains. This can take the form of obfuscating the ultimate source and use of funds, as well as the true identity of the beneficial owners. Although...

In his 2018 study of casino-based money laundering in British Columbia (B.C.), Peter German noted that on July 22, 2015, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigator advised an official with the B.C. Lottery Corporation―the provincial government regulator of lotteries and casinos―that the police had...