Preventive Measures to Counter the Financing of Terrorist Activities

Financing of terrorist activities is a systemic criminal activity that forms an independent criminal practice, which determines the need to implement a set of diverse preventive measures aimed at both eliminating, weakening and minimizing the impact of the factors determining this type of criminal activity and on the persons carrying it out. The goal of crime prevention activities is to influence through implementation of a set of general and special measures, the factors determining crime and the personality of the criminal in the early stages of the formation and implementation of criminal behaviour. Prevention of the financing of terrorist activities involves the implementation of a set of financial measures implemented by specialized authorized entities. First of all, among this group of measures, it is necessary to note financial monitoring. At the same time the information component of financial monitoring is of particular importance, since it is the possession by law enforcement agencies of relevant information about dubious or clearly criminal financial transactions and operations and the persons carrying out them that allows them to quickly identify, prevent, suppress and investigate the financing of terrorist activities. In modern conditions the effective implementation of measures to prevent the financing of terrorist activities is impossible without the use of financial technologies (fintech). Prevention of the financing of terrorist activities should include measures aimed at identifying the determinant factors of various types of terrorist activities and the persons carrying them out, and preventive impact on them. Directly identifying and suppressing the financing of extremist activities is a predicate measure to counter the financing of terrorist activities. It is necessary to identify and destroy the links between the financing of terrorist activities and organized, economic crime and corruption The object of preventive influence should also be persons involved in the financing of terrorist activities (carrying them out), and persons involved in these activities. Preventive influence on real and potential criminals should be carried out based on the person’s belonging to a specific type, determined by the specific motivation of the criminal act, as well as his role in the mechanism of financing terrorist activities.