Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants as Sources of Money Laundering: the Case of Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hassen, Mohammed (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | G/tsadik, Kidanemariam | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-07T06:34:01Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T12:01:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-03-07T06:34:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T12:01:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | There is growing tendency that criminals are involving in generating illegal profit from trafficking and smuggling of migrants across the world. Since the nature of the crimes, in most cases, is linked with organized transnational criminals, several international researchers have shown trend and magnitude of the problem. Moreover significant numbers of Ethiopians were being trafficked/ smuggled to the Middle East, Republic of South Africa and to Europe. The purpose of the research paper, hence, is to provide a picture on the nexus between money laundering or proceeds of crime and crimes of trafficking/smuggling of migrants as predicate offences, so that suggest to consider the confiscation of traffickers/smugglers property generated from predicate offences will contribute on effective prevention of money laundering in general and human trafficking and smuggling of migrants in particular. The research has been exploited a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection. In order to draw conclusion and recommendation combined primary and secondary data analysis is conducted. Victims of trafficking from Ethiopia had cost considerable amount of money at the beginning of the process, during the process and even at the destination countries. Moreover they incurred psychological and physical costs, beyond the material and financial fee, at any point in time during or after the travel which in turn leads to the suffering of their families from socio-economic challenges. The findings of the research reveal that although the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) has been making efforts to minimize the problem in punishing criminals who are involved in such operations wider gap however is remaining on law enforcement professionals and judges regarding laundered financial or material properties generated from trafficking/ smuggling of migrants which are liable to be confiscated according to the law of the country needs to be addressed properly. The research suffers from accessing and collecting the relevant data from law enforcement professionals and judges who are currently working in all regional administrations. Furthermore, the clandestine nature of the crimes made difficulty in covering substantial information regarding the extent traffickers/smugglers generate illegal profits which constitute further research. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/16603 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Human Trafficking | en_US |
| dc.title | Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Migrants as Sources of Money Laundering: the Case of Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |