Chinali Patel

Chinali commenced International Illicit Finance Policy lead role at the British Consulate General in Hong Kong in April 2019.

The role has a specific focus on policy and strategy - enhancing diplomatic engagement, capability and capacity building in close coordination with HMG, local and international partners to tackle illicit finance by disrupting high-harm transnational organised crime groups and addressing the factors that drive, enable and perpetuate their activity.

Cheon-Jeong Park

Cheon-Jeong, Park is Head of the Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for Asia and the Pacific (RILO AP), and also appointed as the Director of International Investigation of Korea Customs Service (KCS). He began his career in 1991 with the foreign port surveillance office at Gunsan Customs.

He has broad experience in customs border surveillance as well as investigation and was selected for Head of Daesan Customs in 2015. In the following year, he became Deputy Director of Investigation Planning Division of KCS.

Norizaku Kuramoto

Norizaku Kuramoto currently heads the Regional Office for Capacity Building at the World Customs Organizations (WCO). He has served as Deputy Director for Technical Cooperation within the Customs and Tariff Bureau of the Government of Japan.

Mr. Kuramoto has nearly 30 years of experience working within the Customs and Tariff Bureau. During this time, he has held several senior positions including Deputy Director for Intelligence, Deputy Director for CMAA and Deputy Director for WTO.

Case Digest: Initial Analysis of the Financial Flows and Payment Mechanisms Behind Wildlife and Forest Crime

This Case Digest was created to fill this information gap by providing data on actual cases from Africa, Asia and Latin America and thereby generate more knowledge of financial flows associated with the illegal wildlife trade and what payment mechanisms are used by those perpetrating the crime.
The Digest begins with a glossary of terms, which is a collection of financial terms that describe methods of value transfer between buyers and sellers of illicit goods.