Brief introductions to crucial topics on preventing and combating corruption and improving standards of governance
Analysing a suspect’s financial affairs in a corruption case
How to use Source and Application of Funds analysis to inform corruption and money laundering investigations and prosecutions and to generate evidence for use in court.
Strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies
In this quick guide, Claudia Baez Camargo, Head of the Basel Institute’s Public Governance team, explains the purpose, focus and value of strategic anti-corruption guidelines for development agencies…
Financial investigations and asset recovery
This quick guide explores the main ideas and trends in financial investigation in the context of financial crime and asset recovery cases.
Offshore structures and beneficial ownership
This quick guide looks at how criminals manipulate and misuse corporate vehicles in offshore jurisdictions to launder money. It focuses on the meaning of "corporate vehicle" and "offshore" and other…
Mobile money and financial crime
Should we be worried about the use of mobile money for financial crimes? In this quick guide, Andrew Dornbierer explains how mobile money could be abused for corruption and money laundering. Drawing …
Open-source intelligence
Intelligence Analyst Manuel Medina explains what open-source intelligence is and explores some of the tricky questions it raises.