Environmental Crimes

The major difference between Environmental Crimes and other crimes concealed by Money Laundering is that for an act negatively affecting the environment to be considered a crime, it must have borne a damage to the environment without obtaining proper licensing and authorization.

For instance the activity of selling timber is not necessarily a criminal offense whereas drug trafficking or arms trafficking are and therefore systematically labeled as crimes.

In other words, the act must be done illegally to qualify as Environmental Crime, while the mere fact of being caught selling drugs or arms qualifies as a crime.

It is for this reason that criminals prefer ti take the Environmental Crime route since it is harder for authorities to control and provide law enforcement.

Criminals also generate huge amounts of money from such activities. Therefore they were named by the FATF the “low risk and high reward” crimes.

#environmentalcrimes #moneylaundering #aml #compliance #inanutshellbymj

Employee Red Flag – by Marijo Samneh

Employers not only look for skills and talents when hiring, they search for ethics.

Therefore must be aware of employees’ Red flags to take the proper corrective measures.

#humanresouces #redflags #inanutshell #inanutshellbymj #hiring

GDPR – by Marijo Samneh

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – in a Nutshell

What happens with the data collected from banks or governmental entities?

Why is it collected? Where is it stored? and who is responsible for storing it?

#gdpr #compliance #inanutshell #inanutshellbymj #data #marijosamneh