Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a central element of most corruption and money laundering investigations. The information and evidence you can gather from publicly available sources can make the difference between a successful investigation and a dead end. Through a simulated investigation, this course will help you learn the basics of how to prepare, conduct and report an OSINT undertaking.

• Introduction to OSINT and the intelligence cycle;
• Preparing your research environment;
• Searching the open web and deep web databases;
• Analysing domain records to find information about websites;
• Using cached and archived records to retrieve past versions of websites;
• Gathering information from social media sites;
• Exploiting the visual and meta information of images;
• Searching online communities, investigating dark web pages and bitcoin;
• Preparing a report of an OSINT investigation.

During the course you immerse yourself in a simulated investigation into the fishing vessel FV Malaga and its owner, the organisation Mossaman Commodities. You follow open-source leads about the misuse of company structures that reveal indicators of illegal fishing and the smuggling of endangered animal parts.

The course was developed by our eLearning team in collaboration with subject matter experts from ICAR and our Green Corruption programme, with primary funding from PMI Impact. Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Albanian, Ukrainian.

For most investigators, Excel is the tool of choice to analyse financial information. In thiscourse, you will useExcel to organise and analyse large volumes of data such as banking records, invoices, phonerecords and commercialtransactions.

• Protect your data from accidental changes
• Use simple functions to find transactions that stand out
• Unlock the power of filters to find exactly the data you are searching for
• Use subtotals to summarise your financial data instantly
• Create interactive summaries using PivotTables

You will also gain insight into typical patterns of illegal use of bank accounts, allowing you tofurther explorepossibilities to analyse financial data.

This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue at any time. It is structuredin sessions thatbuild on each other, so we recommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing thecourse, you will beeligible for a certificate of completion Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Latvian , Bulgarian, Ukrainian,Serbian, Albanian, Romanian.

Analysing suspicious transactions for actitiesrelated to money laundering or the financing of terrorism is a corefunction of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs).

In this course, you will learn to assess the risk of suspicious activity and analyse suspicious transaction reports(STRs).

This course was developed in co-operation with the Egmont Group ofFIUs and is based on the content of the Egmont Group’s on-site TacticalAnalysis training. It is aimed primarily at FIU analysts, but is usefulfor anyone analysing evidence as part of a financial investigation.

• Understand the core responsibilities of an FIU;
• Differentiate between information and intelligence;
• Assess the risk of suspicious activity;
• Conduct an analysis of an STR, including all steps of theintelligence cycle: creating a collection plan and hypothesis,collecting, analysing and evaluating information, and creating anddisseminating a report of your findings;

This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue atany time. It is structured in sessions that build on each other, so werecommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing thecourse, you will be eligible for a certificate of completion.

For most investigators, Excel is the tool of choice to analyse financial information. In this course, you will use Excel to organise and analyse large volumes of data such as banking records, invoices, phone records and commercial transactions.

• Protect your data from accidental changes
• Use simple functions to find transactions that stand out
• Unlock the power of filters to find exactly the data you are searching for
• Use subtotals to summarise your financial data instantly
• Create interactive summaries using PivotTables

You will also gain insight into typical patterns of illegal use of bank accounts, allowing you to further explore possibilities to analyse financial data.

Corruption and money laundering investigations often involve complex structures of persons, companies and otherentities. This is challenging to present to a supervisor or colleagues, or even in a courtroom. A graph or diagramdepicting the relationships between entities in the case and the flows of money between them can make it easier forothers to understand. In this course you will use the free software yEd software.

• Create clear and interpretable graph to present entities in a case you are investigating
• Visualise meaningful connections between these entities
• Depict the entities with custom pictures
• Use layout functions to make your graph ready for analysing in a few clicks
• Use Excel data to create graphs that make financial flows comprehensible
• Add meaningful details, such as thicker connection lines to represent greater amounts of money
• Make your graph versatile, for example by exporting it to PowerPoint

This course is self-paced. You can start, take breaks and continue at any time. It is structured in sessions thatbuild on each other, so we recommend you start with Session 1. After successfully completing the course, you will beeligible for a certificate of completion. Languages: English, Bulgarian, Ukrainian.

Illicit Enrichment by Andrew Dornbierer provides a comprehensive guide to illicit enrichment laws and their application to target unexplained wealth and recover proceeds of corruption and other crimes. 

A set of international good practices toenhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the asset recovery process. Languages: English, French, Spanish.

A practical guide to how civil society organisations can play a role in the asset recovery process. Languages: English, Ukrainian, Arabic.

Part 1 of the learning series explores financial crimes and supply chain vulnerabilities that facilitate the illegal trade in wildlife and thereby increase companies’ legal, financial and reputational risks. It is aimed at companies, policy makers, practitioners and law enforcement.

Part 2 of the Wildlife crime – understanding risks, avenues for action learning series provides companies, policy makers, practitioners and law enforcement with information and background knowledge on crime and corruption in the exotic pet trade. 

Part 3 of the Wildlife crime – understanding risks, avenues for action learning series explores how corruption facilitates timber trafficking and the mingling of legal and illegal supply chains.

Understand the role of informal social networks in enabling corruption, and why anti-corruption interventions should focus more on networks than on individuals.

This quick guide briefly explains the unique characteristics of the art market that make it vulnerable to money laundering and sanctions evasion. It also outlines steps that jurisdictions can take to prevent and combat abuse of the art trade for illicit purposes.

This quick guide sets out how criminals abuse the gambling industry to launder illicit funds. It includes numerous recent case studies to illustrate different ways of laundering money in casinos, online gambling websites, bars and clubs, as well as physical and online sports betting services.

This quick guide explains the role of national risk assessments in addressing money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks. It explains how national risk assessments are conducted, challenges in terms of methodology and data availability, and how well countries are doing at performing them.

NRAs are a critical element of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards on ML/TF. They also provide data in special reports of the Basel AML Index.

This quick guide explains the role of national risk assessments in addressing money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks. It explains how national risk assessments are conducted, challenges in terms of methodology and data availability, and how well countries are doing at performing them.

NRAs are a critical element of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards on ML/TF. They also provide data in special reports of the Basel AML Index.

What role could tax investigations play in detecting, investigating and prosecuting cases of illegal wildlife trade? Potentially a large one, with the right coordination and capacity.

This quick guide by Jovile Mungyereza, Financial Investigation Specialist in our Green Corruption programme and former Tax Investigations manager at the Uganda Revenue Authority, gives a brief introduction to the surprisingly under-researched and under-utilised possibility of using tax laws and investigations to target high-level wildlife traffickers.

Testing some concepts

This survey aim to assess the needs and interests of professionals in anti-corruption, asset recovery, compliance,  business integrity, good governance and related fields for advanced continuing education.

The course aims to provide participants with practical and hands-on tools to conceptualise, establish and implement Collective Action initiatives. Collection Action initiatives bring together business, government and civil society to address shared corruption challenges, and raise the standards of business integrity and fair competition. 

Who is this course for? 

All anti-corruption practitioners who are interested in innovative multi-stakeholder anti-corruption approaches in the business integrity space would benefit from this course.

It is particularly tailored to stakeholders engaged in Collective Action initiatives, including but not limited to:

• Private sector: compliance officers, auditors, risk managers, etc.
• Government: representatives of anti-corruption agencies, ministries of justice, procurement agencies, ministries of economy
• Civil society/international organisations focussing on transparency, businesses-development, sustainability, etc.

Implementing Collective Action initiatives: from theory to practice

While the theory of Collective Action is fairly simple, translating it into practice can be challenging. Our course will guide participants through common challenges including:

• managing conflicting stakeholder expectations;
• changing political and economic landscapes;
• the challenge of finding common goals;
• and, perhaps most importantly, building the necessary trust to address these issues collectively.  

The course is self-paced and interactive to ensure that what participants learn is applicable and responsive to their environment. It keeps the theory concise and focuses on helping practitioners to develop their thinking process through guiding questions and interactive scenarios. The ultimate aim is for practitioners to identify what Collective Action could look like in their context.

Content overview

• Module 1: Introducing the concept of Collective Action and how to Collective Action opportunities.
• Module 2: Identifying relevant stakeholders for Collective Action. 
• Module 3: Introducing governance structure for sustainable CollectiveAction initiatives.

At the end of the course, students will have developed their very own Collective Action roadmap, which will allow them to identify corruption risks in their environments that could be addressed through Collective Action, the stakeholder groups that need to be engaged, and the type of Collective Action initiative that could be utilized effectively the address risks identified. This is a great starting point for discussion with colleagues, partner organisations, or our Collective Action specialists at the Basel Institute. 

How to investigate and prosecute the offence of illicit enrichment, also known as possession of unexplained wealth, using financial investigative methods like Source and Application of Funds Analysis and Net Worth Analysis, overcome legal challenges associated with the offence. This course is designed for practitioners handling corruption cases.