Judge Seminar 1: Dealing with Economic and Financial Crimes

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues

Econimc and Financial Crimes:

• Defining Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCs)
• Public sector corruption: Nigerian and International Perspectives
• The Enron Case
• Impact of globalisation and news media in economic and financial crimes
• Impact of Economic and Financial Crimes on:
• * Individuals
• * Institutions
• * National Economy
• * Global Economy
• Financial Crimes and The Judiciary
• International convention related to Economic & Financial Crimes
• Terrorists financing
• Forfeiture of Assets as a preventive and mechanism
• The Role of the judiciary in combating economic and financial crimes

Financial Crimes and The Judiciary

• International convention related to Economic & Financial Crimes
• Terrorists Financing
• Forfeiture of Assets as a Preventive Mechanism
• The Role of Judiciary in Combating Economic and Financial Crimes
• Instructing Jury on EFCCs Making Judgements based on PerceivedImpact of Financial and Economic Crimes
• Overview of the Nigerian Financial Crime Act 2004 and other related legislations

Information Systems Crimes

• Information Systems Design: An Introduction
• The Internet and Intranet: Design and Access Factors
• Intranet and Internet Security: Firewalls and Security Coding Generation and Application
• Internet Security Breaches: Accidental of Deliberate Breaches
• Information Systems Crimes
• Information Analysis
• Internet Crimes Catalogue
• Internet Crime: Level of Effort for Would-Be Fraudster
• Computer Programming: A Basic Overview
• Computer Viruses: Design, Effect/Counter Viruses

Money Laundering

• Shell Banks
• High-Value Retail
• What is Money Laundering?
• Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
• Modelling Global Money Laundering Flows
• Underground Banking and National Security
• Money Laundering in Casinos
• Charting the maze of electronic money transfers
• Anti-Money Laundering Support Systems
• International Money Laundering Information Network
• The British Money Laundering Legislation 1993
• Statutory Instruments:
• * Money Laundering Regulation 2001 & 2003
• * Drug Trafficking Act 1974
• * Proceeds of Crime Act 1995
• * The Criminal Justice Act 1998

Anti-Fraud and Regulatory Bodies

• The Law Society
• AnCoRR Web
• Fraud Reduction Website
• The United nations Convention against Transnational Organised Crimes and its Protocol
• HM Customs and Excise
• The Serious Fraud Office
• UK Treasury Annual Frayd Reports
• Committee on Standards in Public Life
• UK Financial Services Authority
• NCIS Economic Crime Branch
• Office of the Banking Ombudsman
• OLAF European Anti-Fraud Office
• NASD Regulation Inc.
• Inter-American Convetion against Corruption
• RespondaNet: The America's Accountability/Anti-Corruption Project
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police: Frauds and Scams
• International Bar Association
• Transparency International
• World Bank Institute Governance Group
• World bank Anti-Corruption and Fraud Resources
• International Money Transfer (Banking Fraud and Smuggling)
• The Banking System in Nigeria and UK
• Economic Crimes in Nigeria: Banking Fraud-CBN
• The Independent Banking Advisory Service
• British Bankers' Association
• IBAS
• Consumer Direct: Scams
• Court of Auditors of the European Union
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
• Internat Fraud Complaint Centre
• Australia Scam Watch
• Public Sector Corruption

Information Management & Communication

• Distinguish between Data and Information
• Communication Barriers and Circumvention
• Communication and Risk Management
• Information Disemination
• Eyewitness Unreliability
• Information Security and Case Confidentiality
• Information Release: Secret Documents and Archiving
• Kenetics vs. Kinesiology: Their Impact on Evidence Presented

Ethics In Judgement

• Ethical Headline Cases
• Ethics and Ethical Behaviour
• Ethics and Morality
• Ethical Dilemma
• Ethics: A Historical Perspective
• Ethics In Judgement
• Ethical Judgments
• Ethics and Secularity
• Ethics and Religions Norms
• Ethics and Corporate Responsibility
• Ethical Decision Making

Understanding and Deterring Cybercrime Part 1

• Incidence and implications of ‘theft of service’ (including telecom) fraud
• Trade secret theft as a cybercrime
• Understanding malicious code
• Recognising and averting spamming
• Cyberstalking as a crime: Exploring volunerabilities and remedies
• What is involved in ‘denial-of-service’ attacks
• Dealing with copyright violation
• Understanding and Dealing with securities fraud

Understanding and Dettering Cybercrimes Part 2

• Trojans and Industrial Espionage
• Nigerian '4-1-9 Scheme' or 'Advance Fee Scheme': profiling Victim and Fraudsters
• Pornographic Grading
• Detecting and Remedying Child Pornography
• 'Peer Netrowk' Crimes: The Role of ISPs
• Authorised Online Access: Access Control Measures
• Child Pornography and On-line Grooming: Incidence and Aversion
• Child Pornography and Chatroom Monitoring: Technology Available
• Identifying Theft through Hacking and Phishing