Summary: Arms smuggling and terrorist financing are intertwined threats that exploit gaps in export controls, trade finance, NPO oversight, virtual-asset rails, and weak border/transshipment regimes. A resilient defense aligns export-control compliance (end-use/end-user controls, diversion prevention) with robust AML/CFT (risk assessment, CDD/EDD, screening, TBML controls, and timely suspicious transaction reporting). Institutions should anchor their programs in […]