Global South Dialogue on Economic Crime

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Happy Holidays from GSDEC!

As 2025 comes to a close, we want to take a moment to thank all our partners, collaborators, and community members for an incredible year of growth, learning, and creativity. Your passion and dedication have made this year truly special.

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✍🏽Dr Nkechikwu Azinge: Global AML Regulation: Compliance Challenges for Developing Countries
💡 Looking Ahead:
Thank you to all our collaborators, scholars, and attendees for making 2025 a year of knowledge-sharing, innovation, and dialogue. We can’t wait to build on these milestones in 2026! 🚀

✍🏽Kartini Laras Makmur: Women and Wealth: Navigating Financial Inclusion & Money Laundering Risks in Indonesia
✍🏽Dr Chukwuemeka Nwabuzor Castro: The Primacy of Prevention in Anti-Corruption Regulation
✍🏽Dr Joy Malala: Digital Identity in the Context of Money Laundering: Reflections from Kenya

Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime
GSDEC hosted a dedicated panel at this globally respected forum on 2 September 2025, featuring original research from our scholars on financial crime and regulatory issues in the Global South:

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📖 Book Launch
We celebrated the virtual launch of Global Anti-Money Laundering Regulation: Developing Countries’ Compliance Challenges, edited by Dr Nkechikwu Valerie Azinge-Egbiri, Professor Nicholas Ryder, and Professor Ehi Eric Esoimeme Esq. @drjoymalala.bsky.social

GSDEC 2025: Year in Review
2025 has been a remarkable year for the Global South Dialogue on Economic Crime (GSDEC), filled with research, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing across the Global South and beyond. Beyond sharing important news updates on economic and finacial crime. Highlights:

This special issue is edited by:
⭐ Prof. Louis de Koker
⭐ Dr. Joy Malala
⭐ Dr. Nkechikwu Azinge-Egbiri
⭐ Dr. Folashade Adeyemo
⭐ Chukwuemeka Nwabuzor
⭐ Dr. Lovina Otudor

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New Special Issue Published!

Financial and Economic Crimes Across Disciplines: Perspectives from the Global South
Journal of Economic Criminology (2025)

We are pleased to highlight a new special issue of the Journal of Economic Criminology @nkechiazinge.bsky.social

1️⃣7️⃣ Michele Riccardi - A Data-driven Approach to Measure Money Laundering Risk and its Relationship with Corruption
Riccardi proposes a rigorous, transparent, empirically grounded method for quantifying ML risk and its relationship to corruption.

1️⃣6️⃣ Khaled S. Al Rashidi - Controlling Embezzlement in Kuwait through Situational Crime Prevention
Al Rashidi challenges offender-focused criminology and instead advocates situational crime prevention, reducing opportunities for embezzlement through environmental and procedural design.

1️⃣5️⃣ Mohamed Abdiaziz Muse - The Ambiguity, Opaqueness and Consequences of FATF’s Remittance Regulatory Strategies: The Case Studies of Somalia and Nigeria. Muse critiques the opacity of FATF-influenced remittance rules.

Sumedha Deshmukh - “Universal” Procedures? An Analysis of Text (Dis)Similarities in FATF Mutual Evaluation Reports
Deshmukh shows that FATF mutual evaluation reports are far from uniform.

1️⃣3️⃣ Sanaa Ahmed - The Fatal Flaw of Glocal ‘Solutions’ To Illicit Financial Flows
Ahmed applies a TWAIL lens to critique the power dynamics embedded in the global AML regime.

This final set of papers interrogates global AML governance, FATF methodologies, remittance regulation, situational crime prevention, and data-driven models for ML risk.
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1️⃣2️⃣ Muhammad Bramantyo - “Where do you hide your money?”: The Explanation of Low Conviction in Money Laundering.
He explains why Indonesia struggles to secure money laundering convictions: the complexity of tracing illicit funds, the use of shell companies and tax havens, etc.

1️⃣1️⃣ Munjeyi Edmore - Self Inflicted Wounds: Financial Crime and Judicial System in a Semi-authoritarian Zimbabwe.
Edmore’s analysis shows how judicial capture and political interference in Zimbabwe undermine the prosecution of elite financial crimes.

🔟 Cayle Lupton - Sanctions Compliance as a Basis for Non-Performance of Contractual Obligations
Lupton examines how domestic and foreign sanctions regimes interfere with contractual performance in South Africa. @drjoymalala.bsky.social

9️⃣ Emilia Aguele - Implementation of The Risk-Based Approach in CDD and Its Impact on The Financial Inclusion of Nigerian and Pakistani Students.
Aguele shows how risk-averse interpretations of the AML/CFT Risk-Based Approach lead to discriminatory de-risking practices against Global South students.

Financial and Economic Crimes Across Disciplines: These next authors explore how regulatory interpretations shape financial inclusion, how sanctions interact with contract law, and how systemic institutional failures enable financial crime. @nkechiazinge.bsky.social

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8️⃣ Kartini Laras Makmur - Why Only Scrutinise Formal Finance? Money Laundering and Informal Remittance Regulations in Indonesia.
He critiques Indonesia’s AML framework for disproportionately targeting formal finance while largely ignoring informal remittance networks widely used across the country.

7️⃣ Catherine Tuhirirwe & Richard Alexander - Efficacy of Country Legal Frameworks and International Guidelines in Curtailing Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Activities in Grey List Countries: Case Studies of Kenya and Uganda