Commentary Assets in Flight: Cameroon’s Absentee President Using open flight data and public announcements, C4ADS tracked Cameroon president Paul Biya’s travel, and unveiled the truth behind his "brief private...
Report Lux & Loaded Investigating connections between North Korea's illicit commercial operations and global luxury goods supply chains.
Commentary Assets in Flight: Tracing Africa’s Corrupt Ruling Elite in the Skies The identification of the $30 million aircraft linked to Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodoro Obiang piqued the interest of C4ADS analysts, who...
Commentary The Handasieh Network – Investigating Chemical Weapons Procurement in Syria How the Syrian regime can acquire supplies needed to manufacture chemical weapons under such heavy international sanctions.
Commentary Paper Trails In this piece, we examine how and why networks of private military companies allow Russia to promote its interests around the world.
Commentary Launch of ROUTES Dashboard To help combat wildlife trafficking by air, C4ADS, as part of the USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES)...
Report Illicit Influence: Part Two This case study goes beyond well-known instances of coercive Russian hydrocarbon diplomacy to examine how energy dominance is paired with deceptive corporate...
Commentary Something Smells Fishy… C4ADS analysts use queries to uncover IUU trends through analysis of risky vessel behavior.
Report Above Us Only Stars Investigating the ability to mimic, or “spoof,” legitimate GNSS signals in order to manipulate PNT data.