AFC in Practice - Investigations Ep.3: How to Use HUMINT Effectively in EDD

Overview

Even after enhanced due diligence on a high-risk customer or transaction, or as part of a complex business deal that requires a granular understanding of one’s counterparts, questions or gray areas may remain. Human intelligence, or HUMINT, can be a valuable tool to gather additional information, cross-check data, clarify particularly tricky points and obtain hard-to-access documentation. However, given its built-in complexity, it is not easy to get it right. In this final episode of our three-part series on investigations, we will examine in detail the added value of and risks inherent in HUMINT, e.g., handling raw intelligence.