Dirty Money: The Role of Corruption in Enabling Wildlife Crime

By The Wildlife Justice Commission

The report presents a collection of case studies to illustrate the mechanisms and modalities of corruption in real terms - how it facilitates the movement of wildlife shipments through all stages of the supply chain from source to market, and how it obstructs the criminal justice response, allowing criminal networks to operate with impunity. This report also highlights the harm caused by corruption and urges strong coordinated action to counter it. Wildlife crime and corruption must be addressed in a more connected way, rather than being treated as two separate issues in law enforcement responses. Levelling the playing field will require an innovative and collective approach on the part of all stakeholders to identify the high-risk areas for corruption, develop the means to prevent, investigate, and prosecute corrupt activities, and establish a robust framework to tackle corruption along the wildlife supply chain.

The Hague: Wildlife Justice Commission, 2023. 44p.