Countering Terrorist Financing

The Editors: Mark Pieth is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the Basel Institute on Governance. From 1989 to 1993 he was Head of Section on Economic and Organised Crime in the Federal Department of Justice and Police. Since 1990 he has been Chairman of the OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions. From 2003 to 2005 he was a Member of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme set up by the UN Secretary General. Mark Pieth is also a Member of the Wolfsberg Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Banking Initiative and a Board Member of the World Economic Forum’s Partnering against Corruption Initiative (PACI).Daniel Thelesklaf is the Co-Executive Director of the Basel Institute on Governance. A lawyer by profession, he comes with 13 years of experience in anti-money laundering and anti-corruption work. After an initial career in the private sector, he became the first Director of the Swiss Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in 1998. In 2002/2003, he was Head of the Liechtenstein Due Diligence Unit (supervisor). Daniel Thelesklaf was also involved in the establishment of the FIUs of the Bahamas, Ukraine, Macedonia, Kosovo and Kyrgyzstan.Radha Ivory is a Research Fellow at the Basel Institute on Governance. A graduate in law and international relations, she practiced in employment law and litigation at top-tier Australian firm, Freehills, before relocating to Geneva, Switzerland, in 2006. There, she advised on combating abuse and exploitation in non-government organisations for the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership. At the Basel Institute on Governance, she specialises in anti-corruption and counter-terrorism law, particularly, the compatibility of multilateral asset recovery regimes with international human rights standards.

• Contents: Micheline Calmy-Rey: Preface – Guido Steinberg: Al-Qaida and Jihadist terrorism after 2001 – Kristel Grace Poh: Measures to counter the financing of terrorism – Bob Upton: The financing of terror: a private sector perspective – Yehuda Shaffer: Detecting terrorist financing through financial intelligence: the role of FIUs – Henriette Haas: Systematic Observation as a tool in combating terrorism – Giuseppe Lombardo: Terrorist financing and cash couriers: legal and practical issues related to the implementation of FATF Special Recommendation IX – Kilian Strauss: Combating terrorist financing: are transition countries the weak link? – Marco Gercke: Cyberterrorism: how terrorists use the Internet – Stephan Baker: The misuse of offshore structures so as to assist the financing of terrorism – Mark Pieth/Stephanie Eymann: Combating the financing of terrorism: the ‘Guantanamo Principle’ – Jacques Rayroud: The UN listing system: challenges for criminal justice authorities – Yara Esquivel Soto: An autonomous offence for the financing of terrorism: notes from an Ibero-American perspective – Scott Vesel: Combating the financing of terrorism while protecting human rights: a dilemma? – Radha Ivory: Recovering terrorist assets in the United Kingdom: the ‘domestication’ of international standards on counter-terrorist financing – Mark Pieth/Daniel Thelesklaf/Radha Ivory: The international counter-terrorist financing regime at the cross-roads.