Course
Financial Dimensions of War Crimes Investigations
The course is designed to provide specialist knowledge and skills to allow participants to identify, collect and utilise financial evidence as part of a broader investigation into war crimes or human rights abuses. It will be a mixture of presentations, live demonstrations and team exercises.
The course includes:
- An introduction to the legal framework, including elements of international crimes
- A specific focus on those modes of legal liability most relevant to financial investigations – complicity, aiding and abetting, conspiracy, command responsibility
- The international financial investigation landscape: International regulation & frameworks; law enforcement structures; international cooperation mechanisms
- Financial investigation – principles & practice: preparation & planning; setting objectives & tasking; intelligence development
- Using open source intelligence for intelligence development & investigation: researching & profiling persons of interest; company and business searching
- Digital evidence opportunities in war crimes investigations
- Money laundering: International money movements; correspondent banking; offshore structures
- Operational security & risk
- Sensitive witnesses/information sources: suspects, whistle-blowers, covert sources; human rights considerations; risk management; interviewing strategies