Animesh Roul, Executive Director, Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict, New Delhi, was interviewed for this report in Money Laundering Bulletin by author RAGHAVENDRA VERMA. 

Harder than ever – terrorist finance detection in alternative remittance: Time-tested mechanisms to transfer value – operating outside the formal banking sector, beyond sight of regulators – are a persistent challenge for anti-money laundering and more urgently in countering terrorist financing. Add in crypotocurrency and payment via mobile options and search, find and seizure have been complicated further still, find Paul Cochrane, Raghavendra Verma, Ramadhan Rajab and Keith Nuthall, reporting on the Middle East, East Africa and South Asia.