Combating organized crime
A Talk by Ioannis Vlassis , John Powell , Xavier L’Hoiry , Georgios Antonopoulos , Kaushik Thinnaneri Ganesan , Alessandro Moretti and Magdalena Howland
About this Talk
This panel will discuss the collaboration with law enforcement to tackle sex trafficking in the virtual red light district or the adult service websites, particularly in the UK and Europe. Then, they will present the new UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Toolkit on Mainstreaming gender and human rights in the implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Besides, they will explore the increasing role of electronic evidence in investigations and the need for closer global cooperation between law enforcement agencies. Finally, they will introduce an approach to help banks and financial institutions to detect the financial footprint of human trafficking in their customer data which could be reported more effectively to law enforcement.
About The Speakers
Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC)
Ioannis has been at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime since April 2022 as an Analyst for the South Eastern Europe Observatory and the Global Strategy against TOC.
RedFlag Accelerator Data Scientist, RedCompass Labs
John has been at RedCompass Labs working as a Data Scientist since January 2021. Since joining he has been working on the award-winning gold standard RedFlag Accelerator, which enables banks to more effectively detect human trafficking and other human crimes within their customer’s data.
Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs, Deputy Director
Kaushik is an officer of the Indian Revenue Service with significant law enforcement experience dealing with international smuggling, involving usage of technology and law. His forte is usage of Digital Forensics in development of Intelligence and investigations.