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Anchors Away

In this commentary, we examine how beneficial owners across the fishing, cargo, and tanker industries exploit shell companies and open flag registries...

Deceptive by Design

Criminal networks running scam compounds across Southeast Asia are using AI-powered tools to dramatically scale their operations. An opaque ecosystem of transnational...

Oil and Water

Since 2019, a China-based fleet of at least 56 supertankers has funneled more than 400 million barrels of illicit oil between high-risk...

Staying Afloat

On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, C4ADS discussed the onshore and offshore support systems that enable the distant water squid fishing fleet to...

Bulldozed

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has long been plagued by accusations of corruption, fraud, environmental degradation, and labor exploitation — now,...

The Data-Driven Approach to Investigating the BRI

On Wednesday, May 14, 2025, C4ADS hosted a webinar that explored data-driven methodologies for investigating entities involved in China's Belt and Road...

Hot Lines

Highly concentrated industrial-scale scam centers along the Myanmar border — staffed by victims of human trafficking — generate trillions of dollars annually,...

Intercepted

As elephant ivory and rhino horn seizure numbers begin to rebound following pandemic shutdowns, wildlife trafficking networks are adapting and evolving to...

Faulty Transmission

For years, the Myanmar military has relied on back-alley trade with global entities to support its brutally violent campaign of terror against...

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