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CEP Webinar: The Financial Structures Of Violent Right-Wing Extremist Networks
In Germany

 

(Berlin/New York, N.Y.) – The financing of violent right-wing extremist
organizations and actors has increasingly become the focus of policy
discussions. In 2020, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), commissioned by the
German Federal Foreign Office, published acomprehensive study
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outlining the transnational connectivity of violent right-wing extremist and
terrorist networks in Europe and the United States. This study identified
financial streams and income structures. During ajoint event
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in December 2020, organized by CEP at the United Nations and co-sponsored by
Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States, participants
further analyzed these finance structures. In June 2021, the Financial Action
Task Force (FATF) published itsfirst ever report
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on the global financial structures of such networks.

 

Since January 2021, CEP as well as a range of experts have analyzed the
diverse and broad financial structures of violent right-wing extremist networks
in Germany. However, up-to-date in-depth analyses of financial strategies and
sources of income are largely lacking. A “follow the money” approach to
uncovering network structures, as is established practice in the fight against
the financing of Islamist extremism and terrorism, does not yet seem to exist
for this extremist milieu.

 

Sections of the right-wing extremist scenes, and in particular those that are
closely integrated into transnational networks, seem to have professionalized
their income mechanisms and follow distinct financial strategies. In anew
analytical report
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, CEP has now outlined these structures and strategies. The results of this
research will be presented and discussed during this webinar.

 

The webinar will be conducted in English via Zoom.

 

Date: Friday, September 24, 2021

Time: 10:00 a.m. ET / 16:00 CET

 

EVENT PROGRAM:

 

Moderator and Introduction:

 

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director, CEP

 

Opening Remarks:

 

Gabriele Scheel, head of division “International Cooperation against
Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption,” Federal Foreign
Office of Germany

 

Speakers:

 

Maximilian Kreter

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

 

Jennifer Hanley-Giersch

Managing partner, Berlin Risk Advisors GmbH (BRA) and board member, ACAMS
Germany Chapter

 

Alexander Ritzmann

Senior advisor, CEP and Radicalization Awareness Network (RAN) of the European
Commission

 

Dr. Chia Lehnardt

Head of division “International Cooperation against Money Laundering and
Terrorism Financing,” Federal Ministry of Finance of Germany and Head of
Delegation for Germany at the FATF

 

The presentations will be followed by a Q&A session open to all participants.

 

Please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues.

 

If you like to participate in this webinar, please register via the following
link:

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Due to increased security requirements, we kindly request that you register
for this webinar with your institutional email at least one hour prior to the
start of the event. If this is not possible due to technical restrictions,
please register with your personal email. We will then contact you in case of
any questions. Thank you for your understanding.

 

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