Illegal

Learn the Basics of Illegal Wildlife Trade and how to Manage related Risks for Anti-Money Laundering AML Compliance

This book offers readers some valuable insights on how this might be done. It exposes and analyzes illegal practices in the logging industry and timber trade of four tropical countries. The book also provides a global overview of the problem and presents solid conclusions and recommendations for effective future regulation of this precious resource.

In this book the author examines the illegal wildlife trade from multiple perspectives: the historical context, the impact on the environment, the scope of the problem internationally, the sociocultural demand for illegal products, the legal efforts to combat it, and several case studies from inside the trade.

This book describes the main patterns and trends of drug trafficking in Latin America and analyzes its political, economic and social effects on several countries over the last twenty years. Its aim is to provide readers an introductory yet elaborate text on the illegal drug problem in the region. It first seeks to define and measure the problem, and then discusses some of the implications that the growth of production, trafficking, and consumption of illegal drugs had in the economies, in the social fabrics, and in the domestic and international policies of Latin American countries.