The Egmont Group’s Information Exchange Working Group has released a series of Environmental Crimes Bulletins to help financial intelligence units identify, analyze and disrupt financial flows linked to environmental crime. The series covers illegal wildlife trade, including rhino trafficking, pollution crime, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, illegal logging, and illegal mining and natural resource extraction. It sets out money laundering risks, criminal methods, vulnerable sectors, typologies and red flags drawn from international research and case examples. The bulletins show how criminal networks exploit legitimate businesses, global supply chains, financial institutions and regulatory gaps to conceal proceeds. Recurring methods include cash-intensive businesses, nominee and shell companies, trade-based money laundering, document manipulation, rapid transfers and cash withdrawals, cross-border payment channels, and the purchase of high-value assets. The Egmont Group encouraged FIUs to incorporate relevant indicators and typologies into their analytical and operational work.

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