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Financial Crime Matters: Tackling the Finances of Violent Extremists

Kieran Beer
Editor-in-Chief, Director of Editorial Content

In this episode of Financial Crime Matters, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, former head of the U.N. Security Council’s ISIL, al-Qaida and Taliban Monitoring Team, describes how the West’s military withdrawal from Afghanistan and West Africa has allowed terrorist groups to flourish globally, and lists some of the actions banks and other institutions can take to prevent funds from reaching them.

Listen to the podcast here.

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Topics : Anti-money laundering , Counterterrorist Financing
Source: Nonprofits/Private Organizations
Document Date: June 2, 2025