![]() Hungary Defends Handling of Migrants Amid Chaos at Train Station, by Anemona Hartocollis, Dan Bilefsky and James Kanter, Sept. In early September, Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, said the migration crisis was a "German problem," and Europe had a moral duty to tell migrants to stay away. ![]() Thousands of desperate immigrants queue …" by Tom Wyke, Daily Mail, August 16.) Greece sent a car ferry to Kos to transport some 2,500 Syrian refugees to Athens. Forty suffocated as they were locked in the hold of a trafficker's boat. Thousands have used tiny rubber dinghies not designed for offshore use to reach the tiny Greek Island of Kos while many die trying to make the journey. The MASS CEMETERY of Europe … by Owen Bennett, Express, April 2.) In their desperate plight to escape their countries and make it to Europe, immigrants are paying between £2,000 and £3,000 to human traffickers to board unseaworthy boats for the perilous crossing. More than 23,000 refugees have drowned crossing the Mediterranean Sea from war-torn countries trying to reach Europe. UN reveals 3,000 migrants are crossing the Greek-Macedonian border EACH DAY … by Corey Charlton, Daily Mail, August 25.) As CFEs, we must actively identify any possible money links to organized crime or people smugglers.Īt press time, more than 3,000 migrants were crossing the Greek–Macedonian border every day, carrying their worldly possessions with them. For example, we can't just stand by and not encourage law enforcement agencies to investigate and introduce tighter controls on the facilitators of people smuggling.Īlso, the refugees have little or no money by the time they reach Europe because they've paid it to traffickers who undoubtedly are laundering it into financial systems. However, as CFEs, we should have an interest in how we can lend our talents and skills. Because the crisis is still developing, I haven't been able to find any hard information on money tracing from refugees to smugglers to money launderers and then into economic systems. With this mass exodus, of course, comes the usual fraud: human trafficking, money laundering and exploitation. ![]() (SeeĮurope 'faces worst refugee crisis since Second World War', by Matthew Holehouse, The Telegraph, August 14.) United Nations figures show that 50 million people have been driven from their homes by violence in the Middle East and Africa, with Syria the hardest hit. The ongoing migration of refugees from areas dominated by ISIS into Europe is the largest mass movement of people since World War II, according to a European Union official.
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