How bad actors get money to do bad things
Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic
English - February 19, 2021 04:05 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBBusiness News accounting auditing governance financial crime politics financial reporting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Terrorist organsations need to resource their operations and history shows us that they use varying methods to get their hands on money to aid them in planning and executing acts of extreme political violence. Terrorism financing expert Jodi Viittori helps us decipher the world of shady financing used by the practitioners of political violence. Her 2011 book, Terrorist Financing and Resourcing, remains one of the landmark texts in the area of terrorism financing, This podcast covers the simplest and most complex methods that bad actors use to get money for their violent activities. Why did groups such as Al Qaeda have rigorous internal audit functions to keep track of where money was spent? You'll have to listen to find out ....
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