Following the Money: Disrupting Wildlife-Linked Illicit Financial Flows in Kenya/Tanzania/Uganda
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Main
VALUE £158,984
WHERE Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya
Summary
This project addresses a neglected component of the IWT, namely the lack of capacity in source countries to investigate illicit financial flows (IFF) underpinning the trade. This project aims to build capacity in Kenya and Tanzania to detect and prosecute wildlife-linked money-laundering – which stalls development and entrenches poverty. It does so by piloting a new approach: a strategic threat- and needs-assessment around wildlife-linked IFFs followed by tailored multi-agency and cross-border training, bridging law-enforcement, banking, wildlife, justice and customs authorities.
Over 600 arrests and more than 500 convictions in wildlife crime since 2017, alongside a decline in ivory trafficking cases and an increase in elephant and rhino populations.
