Opened lectures

by PhD in Law, Practitioner attorney Fabian Teichmann (Switzerland)

“Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: Current Problems and International Practice”

(28-29.09.2018)

During the lectures, the question about how far it is realistic for intellectual criminals to circumvent the existing mechanisms for preventing money laundering and counteracting the financing of terrorism was discussed. Effective money laundering and terrorist financing methods were determined on the basis of an analysis of unofficial interviews with probable “white-collar” criminals and their counselors, standardized expert interviews with individual crime prevention specialists and statistical surveys of 200 compliance officers. It was found that the most convenient instruments for money laundering and terrorist financing are gold, jewelry, rough diamonds, antiques, art, real estate projects, consulting firms, mergers and acquisitions of firms, banks in Dubai, deposit boxes, private currency transactions, etc.

In modern scientific research, the main attention is paid to assessing the amount of money laundered in certain geographical areas and to improve the mechanisms of combating this phenomenon; in the lectures offered to you, we find out what allows intellectual and experienced criminals in the area of money laundering and terrorist financing to avoid liability . Identifying the disadvantages of combating money laundering and terrorist financing should provide compliance specialists and legislators with valuable ideas and deep understanding of this issue.

The course of lectures by Dr. Fabian Taichmann has been listened by more than 30 students and young scientists from the Yaroslav Mudriy National Law University, as well as from other institutions of higher education.