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With nations still under social distancing laws and remote workforce arrangements, COVID-19 continue to prompt large demands on certain products such as foods items and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). While this has brought about greater focus on manufacturing, it has also given rise to increased slavery operations and trafficking schemes to reap profit from high-value items. Often, these slavery operations are masked under manufacturing activities and remain unnoticed for long periods of time.

[Highlights]

• 0:03:14 – CSI collects anonymous information about human trafficking from industry partners and law enforcement agencies. Data will then run through the CSI analytics capabilities against other complimentary databases.
• 0:06:03 – Gaps in global supply chains and the need to review the possible security and visibility gaps depending on the mode of transportation – road, air, or sea.
• 0:09:34 – Main techniques of human trafficking involve putting employees into debt from transportation and living expenses, withholding passport, and physical or emotional threats against oneself and their family members.
• 0:13:21 – Financial red flags and money laundering to hide proceeds of other illicit activities such as drug smuggling, wildlife trading, counterfeits trading.
• 0:23:28 – TAPA Incident Information Service (IIS) can help to provide cargo crime data information to NGOs like CSI and law enforcement agencies to combat illicit activities.

[More Information]
Please visit: https://www.tapa-apac.org/tapa-podcast-4-exploited-combating-human-trafficking-in-asia-supply-chains-a-network-of-organised-illicit-crime/