Financing of Transnational Violent Right-Wing Extremist and Terrorist Structures – Misuse of Online Services

Introductory remarks

Gabriele Scheel

Head of Division “International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption”, Federal Foreign Office of Germany

Part 1: Methods of misuse

Dr. Thorsten Hindrichs

Research Associate, Department of Musicology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Maximilian Kreter

PhD candidate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies e. V. (HAIT) and doctoral fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR)

Alexander Ritzmann

Senior Advisor, Counter Extremism Project

Part 2: Government countermeasures, challenges, and role of industry

Michael Hertzberg

United States Department of the Treasury

Millie Radovic and Neil Everitt

Financial Action Task Force (FATF): Risk, Trends and Methods Group

Video

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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