Atrocity-crimes generate substantial financial proceeds. The laundering of these proceeds is already occurring but anti-money laundering regimes have not consistently treated them as predicate offences, creating a gap in accountability. 

 

To bridge this gap, this paper:

• Explains how atrocity crimes generate, move and conceal proceeds;

• Identifies common enabling typologies and red flags; 

• Summarizes the FATF standards relevant to predicate offences and highlights the gap; 

• Provides practical recommendations for FATF, member States, financial institutions, law enforcement and the private sector, including a central recommendation to explicitly recognise atrocity crimes as predicate offences.