Smuggling & Trade in Illicit Goods, Cultural Heritage, Antiquities & Property

About This Webinar

The timeless problem of the Illicit trafficking of cultural property phenomenon has forced international and national organizations to adopt protective measures in order to mitigate this serious threat.

Indeed, the involvement of organized crime, the transnational scale of the phenomenon, the potential of money laundering and above all the potential funding of terrorism through the illegal selling of cultural property objects are some of the consequences that should force all the security sector organizations to act.

But the effective confrontation of this criminal activity must be sought in a number of actions security sector organizations - the main body for the protection of cultural property - should follow in order to be effective and efficient.

This webinar wishes to provide a clear view about

-the scale of the problem based on raw data
-training solutions for security sector organizations
-proposals for collaborations towards the desirable goal

which will support the elimination of the phenomenon.

In this webinar we will learn and understand the transnational threats and channels used by traffickers and what can be implemented to help combat this illegal trade.

Orfeas-Konstantinos Sotiriou, National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government

Angeliki Aloupi, Director of the Committee of Prevention and Management of Social Exclusion - Hellenic Community for Behavior Analysis

Dr Gkionis Nikolaos, National Organizations and CPP

Who can view: Everyone

Webinar Price: Free

Featured Presenters

Orfeas-Konstantinos Sotiriou

National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government

Orfeas Sotiriou is an alumnus of the National School of Public Administration and Local Government of Greece. Prior to his entrance to the National School, he had worked as a Police Sergeant for 20 years out of which 6 at the Antiquities and Cultural Heritage Department of Greek Police. Furthermore, he holds a Bachelor and a Master in Archaeology from the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens. His Master Thesis (cum Laude) was an in-depth examination of the illicit trafficking of cultural heritage property phenomenon in Greece. Since 2016 Orfeas has been included in the OSCE's expert roster and consequently has joined the major training workshops of the organization around the world. Furthermore, in 2019 Orfeas created the first ever Handbook for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Property. By combining details extracted from 1000 official arrests related to cultural heritage crimes he developed a unique risk scale for the protection of Cultural Heritage Sites. As an expert, he has helped Homeland Security of the USA, INTERPOL and WCO in various cases with stolen cultural heritage objects, and he has achieved repatriation of antiquities.

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Angeliki Aloupi

Director of the Committee of Prevention and Management of Social Exclusion - Hellenic Community for Behavior Analysis

Angeliki A. Aloupi MSc in Psychology, is a graduate of the Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and of the General Education, also department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She received her Master’s in Organizational and Economic Psychology, and more specifically in staff training and learning development, from the department of Psychology at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. She works from 2007 at the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and from 2019 as an external partner of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in the Life-Long Learning Center, department of Psychology, program of «Behavior Analysis». She has worked for over a decade with minorities in culturally diverse classrooms. She is specialized in instructional design based on the principles of Behavior Analysis and she has developed training courses about Cultural Property Protection in cooperation with the Hellenic Police Force and Greek Ministry of Education. Moreover, she has contributed to the design of the educational structure of the Handbook for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the OSCE BSMU (Sotiriou Konstantinos-Orfeas Author).

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Tony Kingham

Editor Border Security Report / World Security Report

Editor of World Security Report, Border Security Report and Director of the World Border Security Congress

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Nikolaos Gkionis

National Organizations and CPP

Nikolaos Gkionis is a PhD Candidate in History, acquired by the University of Athens while he is an alumnus of the Hellenic National School of Public Administration. Nowadays, he works at the Hellenic Organization for Cultural Resources and Development

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