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FP Sustrans: the role of Europol in cross-border cash detection operations
Tri-fold Expert Working Group
on Financial Flows
EUROPOL, The Hague, Netherlands
13 February 2013
FP Sustrans
Agenda:
• FP Sustrans in a nutshell
•analysis techniques in cross-border cash movements
•A few practical examples:
� Operation ATHENA III – Strategic analysis
� Operation SUNDAY – Operational analysis
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FP Sustrans intelligence base
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Analysis
Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs)
InvestigationsCash Transaction Reports (CTRs)
Country C
Drug seizure at the airport
Country B
Case 1 –Predicate offence detection
Examples of added value
Country A
FP SUSTRANS
FP HEROIN
INDEX
SAR
Analysis tools used in cash detection operations
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i2 Data Miner 8 is a numerical analysis tool. It allows you to analyze large amounts of data and find whether patterns exist in subsets of data, and whether these patterns repeat in predictable ways
Air route SPAIN/FRANCE�CHINA
French cash seizures 2007-2008
Cash Routes Detection
Analysis tools used in cash detection operations
By following the branches of the “tree” a profile can be detected.
Region
Year
Count
Gender
Age
Nationality
2005 2006
NORTH CENTRE
FEMALE
30-50 >50
OTHER NIGERIA
2007
SOUTH
MALE
20-30
RPC
Analysis tools used in cash detection operations
Operation Athena III: Strategic analysis
Background:
•A joint police and customs operation on cash couriering was proposed by the Danish Presidency in 2012.
•Operational activities/threat assessments show laws on declaration of cash often violated: larger amounts of cash are transported from one Member State to another or to a third country
•Cash amounts are often transported with a view to repatriate criminal proceeds or to carry out money laundering
Operation Athena III
Athena III divided into different phases:
•Pre-operational phase:
26 countries: 25 EU + 1 Non-EU
Analysis of over 70,000 records 31/01/2011 –31/12/2011
•Operational phase
38 countries: 25 EU + 13 Non-EU
Mobile office deployment - 16/10/2012 – 22/10/2012, over 800 records checked
Operation Sunday
•A network based in The Netherlands and engaged in money laundering activities derived from international cocaine trafficking
•Initiative launched by FP Sustrans from scratch with support from FP COLA and 3 EU MS
•2 Analytical phases:
� Expanding the network
� Establishing key targets
Analysis techniques
Analytical methodology to analyse the network from three different perspectives:
Transaction Analysis – find who the top senders are: the suspects that either sent more transactions or sent higher amount of money.
Social Network Analysis (SNA) – focus on centrality measure betweenness – find the suspects that link people who would not be otherwise linked.
Link Analysis – besides the transactions, are the suspects linked through other means, e.g. like addresses?
Op Sunday – Conclusions
-Intelligence exchange via Europol/ Sustrans – links between drug seizures, STRs/ CTRs, ongoing investigations to develop cases/ revealing criminal patterns
-Application of specific analysis techniques
-Model for data exploitation in analysis of financial intelligence
-Interoperability between available databases
-Domestic information on ML trends should be extracted from dedicated threat assessments