The risks of exploiting virtual currencies in terrorist financing operations

The use of financial resources by terrorists or for terrorists’ activities gets more sophisticated due to the more ubiquitous Internet, the big data and innovations in payment systems. Innovations including card-based, mobile-based and Internet based. Virtual currencies (VC) is one type of Internet-...

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Main Author: Zulhuda, Sonny
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spelling my.iium.irep.841222020-11-03T03:40:00Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/84122/ The risks of exploiting virtual currencies in terrorist financing operations Zulhuda, Sonny JX International law K Law (General) K1001 Commercial Law KBP3738 Military law The use of financial resources by terrorists or for terrorists’ activities gets more sophisticated due to the more ubiquitous Internet, the big data and innovations in payment systems. Innovations including card-based, mobile-based and Internet based. Virtual currencies (VC) is one type of Internet-based payment system. It brings both hopes and threats. It promises wider reach while provides a powerful new tool for criminals, terrorist financers and other sanctions evaders to move and store illicit funds, out of the reach of law enforcement and other authorities. 2. Such threats arise due a variety of risks that are inherently contained in the system of virtual currencies, among others, Legitimacy risks; Anonymity risks; and Decentralisation risk. As VCs are not recognised as a legal tender in major jurisdictions, they are largely based on contractual agreements between the users and providers. Problems may arise if there is no mechanism to ensure the balance of contractual bargaining power. Secondly, VCs are usually designed to allow the users to conceal their identities. So without names or other customers’ identification, the relationship is non-face to face and is usually anonymous. This enables fraudulent or abusive conduct to go unchecked or untraced. Lastly, VCs are traded without central system providers. Thus, there is no central oversight body. Therefore, it makes it difficult for the law enforcement and oversight body to monitor. 2020-10-29 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/84122/2/Poster%20IMCTC%20Oct%202020.jpg application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/84122/7/84122.pdf Zulhuda, Sonny (2020) The risks of exploiting virtual currencies in terrorist financing operations. In: IMCTC 10th Monthly Symposium, 29th October 2020, Online via MS Team. (Unpublished)
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The risks of exploiting virtual currencies in terrorist financing operations
description The use of financial resources by terrorists or for terrorists’ activities gets more sophisticated due to the more ubiquitous Internet, the big data and innovations in payment systems. Innovations including card-based, mobile-based and Internet based. Virtual currencies (VC) is one type of Internet-based payment system. It brings both hopes and threats. It promises wider reach while provides a powerful new tool for criminals, terrorist financers and other sanctions evaders to move and store illicit funds, out of the reach of law enforcement and other authorities. 2. Such threats arise due a variety of risks that are inherently contained in the system of virtual currencies, among others, Legitimacy risks; Anonymity risks; and Decentralisation risk. As VCs are not recognised as a legal tender in major jurisdictions, they are largely based on contractual agreements between the users and providers. Problems may arise if there is no mechanism to ensure the balance of contractual bargaining power. Secondly, VCs are usually designed to allow the users to conceal their identities. So without names or other customers’ identification, the relationship is non-face to face and is usually anonymous. This enables fraudulent or abusive conduct to go unchecked or untraced. Lastly, VCs are traded without central system providers. Thus, there is no central oversight body. Therefore, it makes it difficult for the law enforcement and oversight body to monitor.
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