Terrorist Financing: through the front door

David Carlisle is based in London and can be reached at dcarlisle08@gmail.com

The ease of setting up a shell company in the UK is well-documented, most recently by Transparency International in November 2017. [1] These corporate vehicles, commonplace in laundering schemes, offer equal cover to terrorist financiers, as David Carlisle illustrates by a recent US case; but AML compliance does have defences, he says.