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Identifying and Reporting Human Trafficking and related Money Laundering
In observing this January’s National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the United States, at a related earlier dialogue, someone had asked me if there were red flags or good practices on detecting money laundering concerning cross-border modern slavery to not only help to disrupt such an odious crime but to also help communities identify victims,…
Read MoreThe ICAIE Protocol: A Criminal-Threat Convergence Framework (≜ Kine-Dynamics)
The ICAIE Protocol (≜ Kine-Dynamics): In an emerging multi-polar world where threat networks do not respect rules, norms, breaking their cycle of corruptive influence and the economic power within ecosystems of criminality requires more anticipatory protocols and robust enforcement, especially those bad actors that are exploiting Boyd’s OODA loop — observe, orient, decide, and act…
Read MoreCan Leveraging a Criminal-Threat Convergence Framework Transform the Fight Against Illicit Economies in the Americas? Yes—The ICAIE Protocol.
In recent days, I have had the opportunity to share my views with a number of news media and policy communities on the current security situation in Venezuela and related diplomatic considerations including President Trump’s new National Security Strategy of the United States of America (November 2025), and how the United States aims to enforce…
Read MoreICAIE’s 2026 Outlook: Top 5 Illicit Threats
ICAIE’s 2026 Outlook: Top 5 Illicit Threats: 1. Unchecked Corruptive Influence2. Criminalized Trade Hubs and Markets3. Deadlier Fentanyl-Mixed Hybrids4. Digitized Transaction Laundering5. AI Sophisticated Deepfakes/Counterfeits Unchecked Corruptive Influence: Criminals and Threat Networks will continue to expand an ecosystem of criminality through blatant corrupt practices, targeted bribery, collusion, and fierce coercion to infiltrate governance structures, destabilize…
Read MoreICAIE’s John Cassara on How Bad Actors & Threat Networks use the Global Financial System to Launder Trillions of Dollars in Dirty Money
Learn more about “How do global FinSinners—from cartels to corrupt actors—use the financial system to wash trillions?” [see below, Parts 1 and 2, produced by First American] featuring ICAIE’s Vice President and Senior Advisor, John A. Cassara — and former CIA spy and Treasury agent. Cassara joins Sarah Frano, Host – First on Fraud, and…
Read MoreFighting Organized Crime, Illicit Trade, and Corrosive Capital across the Caribbean
Statement by David M. Luna, Executive Director, ICAIE 9 December 2025 Fighting Organized Crime, Illicit Trade, and Corrosive Capital across the Caribbean It is an honor for ICAIE to join this year’s ACAMS The Assembly Caribbean 2025 and to speak during the Panel on “The Inter-Linked Webs of Organized Crime in the Caribbean”. Increasingly, violent…
Read MoreICAIE New “ILLICIT SHADOWS” Episode 1: Dispatch 1: Chemical Cartels: American Fallout – How Fentanyl Became a Weapon of War
What if the deadliest war in America isn’t being fought overseas, but right here on our streets? Across the country, a chemical weapon is claiming lives faster than any bullet. It’s not launched by missiles or drones. It’s packaged, shipped, and sold—one dose at a time. That weapon is fentanyl. The fentanyl trade has unleashed…
Read MoreThe Museum of Illicit Shadows (MIS): Shining A Light on the Dark Forces Shaping the Global Criminal Underworld
ICAIE ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF THE MUSEUM OF ILLICIT SHADOWS (MIS) AS A FEATURED VIRTUAL KNOWLEDGE HUB IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ILLICIT ECONOMIES WASHINGTON, DC (ICAIE News) –– The International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE), led by former U.S. diplomat and national security official, David M. Luna, announced today the creation of the digital Museum of…
Read MoreICAIE ANNOUNCES THE CREATION OF THE MUSEUM OF ILLICIT SHADOWS (MIS) AS A FEATURED VIRTUAL KNOWLEDGE HUB IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ILLICIT ECONOMIES
WASHINGTON, DC (ICAIE News) –– The International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE), led by former U.S. diplomat and national security official, David M. Luna, announced today the creation of the digital Museum of illicit Shadows (MIS), in partnership with Shadowverse Media and RAD Original Creations (RADOC). Building on the earlier creation of its forthcoming docuseries, Illicit…
Read MoreAdvancing Public-Private Partnerships: Countering Illicit Economies and Crime Convergence – Spotlighting the Victims of Illicit Trade
In the coming months through numerous initiatives, projects, conferences, media interviews, and strategic communications, ICAIE, RADOC, and Shadowverse Media will be advancing public-private partnerships to counter illicit economies and crime convergence, and bringing greater attention to the victims of illicit trade and related harms during our digital market-intelligence programming and public awareness campaigns. The Illicit…
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