Course Report by Ramla
Course Report by Ramla
OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for Financial Investigation and Asset Tracing
17-21 June 2019.
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This report has been prepared for the training course entitled “OSINT (Open Source
Intelligence) for Financial Investigation and Asset Tracing “that has been done at
Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan during the period of 17 th to 21st June 2019 in order to
share key knowledge, experience and developed skills of the trainees of different
organizations/ countries.
The aim of this course was to enhance the efficiency on financial investigation and
assets recovery. The undersigned successfully completed the training and compiled this
report as the summary and the conclusion that have drawn from the training experience.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Competent Authority of NAB for my
nomination for the said training and UNODC & ARIN-WCA for providing very
comprehensive training, which is directly related to the core function of NAB.
Title of Training:
OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for Financial Investigation and Asset Tracing.
Organizer(s):
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in collaboration with Asset
Recovery Inter-Agency Network West and Central Asia (ARIN-WCA).
Venue:
Duration/Period:
Speakers/ Experts:
Participants:
The participants were from The Islamic Republic of Pakistan ,Islamic Republic of
Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of Iran, Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Republic
of Kazakhstan, Republic of kyrgyzstan, Republic of Uzbekistan.
The core objective of the training was to strengthen the abilities of the participants for
tackling illicit financial flows and money laundering by using open source intelligence.
Result/ Benefit:
The training strengthens the skills of the participants for financial investigation and
Assets tracing by way of using open sources of information available on the Internet
and enhance the capacity of investigator(s) for searching, collecting and analyzing
information from publicly available sources.
TRAINING METHODOLOGY:
The training was based on the combination of Lectures, Practical Exercises and Mock
Trails. The lectures consisted on Investigation Styles and Planning on Online
Investigation, Open Source resource, Internet Architecture , Anonymisation, Evidence
Capture, Handling internet Evidence and Intelligence, Based and Advance Searching
Technique, Investigation Digital Images, Investigation Websites and Internet Traces,
Investigation Email and Email Trace, Legislation and Procedures, Investigation the
Deep Web and TOR, Internet Relay Chat, Newsgroups, Forums, Business, Financial
and Company Searching, Online Marketplace, Introduction to Crypto currencies,
Social Network and Online False Persons.
The Lectures were delivered in detail with broad aspect by eminent experts and
professionals as mentioned above. At the end of the every lecture there used to be open
discussion and trainees share their experiences and raised question on different aspects
of each topic which were adequately answered by the experts.
The following websites / Links of OSINT Tools have been suggested by experts, which
are related to internet investigation.
www.haveibeenpowed.com
www.centalops.net
www.osint.tools.com
ww.windowsnaop.tools
www.zoopla.com
www.duedil.com
www.offshoreleaks.com
www.jonellis.co.uk
www.centraops.net
www.investigationdashboard.com
www.private_eye.com
www.consilium.europa.eu
www.iBanchecker.com
www.fid.gov.jm
www.visualsitemapper.com
www.onloneops.net
www.yani.com
www.spokeo.com
SUGGESTIONS:
CONCLUSION:
Over all training was very comprehensive and provided us the key knowledge and skills
that we need to perform our job. The participant leant news tools and techniques to play
their role in elimination of corruption and corrupt practices from their countries.