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March 20, 2018 The Terrorism and Illicit Finance Subcommittee, House Financial Services Committee March 20, 2018 Statement of Louise Shelley, University Professor and the Omer and Nancy Hirst Chair and Director, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University In late 2014, the Security Council adopted Resolution 2195 that identified the following crimes that support terrorism: “trafficking of arms, persons, drugs, and artefacts and from the illicit trade in natural resources including gold and other precious metals and stones, minerals, wildlife, charcoal and oil.” 1 This list, however, omits two important sources of funding for terrorism—counterfeits and the illicit cigarette trade, which includes counterfeit and diverted cigarettes, and illicit whites (cigarettes produced to be smuggled). The use of counterfeits as a funding source was identified with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. ...

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