The Role of Scams and Sport in Terrorist Financing

Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler and Alexander Ritzmann are joined once again by Elena Martynova to explore two underexamined areas of terrorist financing: the targeting of individuals through sophisticated scam operations and the growing exploitation of the sports sector as a financial vehicle. Drawing on Elena’s recent CEP blogs, they examine how extremist groups increasingly leverage fraud schemes, online betting, and parts of the wider sports industry to generate funds—and what this means for policymakers and practitioners working to disrupt these evolving financial networks.

Elena’s CEP blogs:

Terrorist Financing Through Scams: Current Evidence and Emerging Risks and 

The Overlooked Nexus between Sports and Extremism Financing