Illicit Financial Flows

Alberto Aziani is a research fellow at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and senior researcher at Transcrime.  He holds an MSc in Economics and Social Sciences and a PhD in Criminology.  His research interests are transnational and organized crime.  He has conducted studies on these topics and collaborated with the UNODC and the EC on research projects examining drug trafficking and money laundering in relation to illicit markets.

• Introduction.- Illicit Financial Flows: Conceptual and Operational Issues.- How Illicit Financial Flows are Estimated.- A New Strategy to Estimate Illicit Financial Flows.- Data and Assumptions Behind the Application of the Flow-Network Approach to Cocaine Trafficking.- Conclusion.