EUR-Obs

Lessons from the Louvre: How cultural heritage becomes criminal currency

...Early on 19 October 2025, four people disguised as construction workers executed a meticulously planned robbery at the Louvre Museum in Paris. In under 10 minutes, they made off with eight items from ...

Posted on 23 Oct 2025

Author(s): Sarah Fares

25 Oct

UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

GI-TOC attends the signing ceremony of the UN Convention against Cybercrime

...On 25 and 26 October 2025, representatives of UN member states, international organizations and civil society will gather in Hanoi for the signing ceremony of the United Nations Convention against Cyb...

Posted on 20 Oct 2025
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Markéta Swiacká

Europe Hub Analyst - ECO-Solve, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Markéta Swiacká joined GI-TOC in 2025 and is a member of the ECO-SOLVE team, the organization’s flagship environmental crime project, where her work focuses on uncovering environmental crime and p...

Posted on 20 Oct 2025
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Lieth Carrillo Sánchez

Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Lieth Carrillo is an analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. She holds a degree in anthropology from Andes University, with a specialization in law and state. She has e...

Posted on 20 Oct 2025
20 Oct

WEA-Obs

Illicit hub mapping in West Africa 2025

Illicit hub mapping in West Africa 2025

...CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE INTERACTIVE MAP Are you a journalist? Access the Media kit here West Africa is a region marked by profound economic dynamism but persistent insecurity. Over the pa...

Posted on 20 Oct 2025
30 Oct

WEA-Obs

Private military companies and arms control challenges: The Wagner group in Mali

Private military companies and arms control challenges

...Private military companies (PMCs) and mercenary groups have become increasingly visible in conflicts worldwide, raising urgent concerns for human rights and international security. This report documen...

Posted on 16 Oct 2025

SA-Obs

A proposal to fortify South Africa’s organized crime laws against enablers

From gangs to grey agents

...South Africa’s organised crime economy is not just the work of gangs and enterprise kingpins. It endures because a grey layer of professional enablers –lawyers, accountants, logistics firms, secur...

Posted on 15 Oct 2025

Author(s): Raph Mackintosh

SEE-Obs

How have Albanian networks come to dominate cocaine trafficking to Europe?

...While the world was grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic and its knock-on effects on global trade, one illicit economy proved stubbornly resilient to the shocks: cocaine trafficking. On 4 November 202...

Posted on 11 Oct 2025

Author(s): Fatjona Mejdini

APA-Obs

China’s acquiescence to Myanmar’s military regime fuels ‘foreigner butchering’ scam epidemic

...In July 2025, a Chinese court opened a case against Bai Suocheng and his son Bai Yingcang, the former leaders of the Myanmar military’s Kokang Border Guard Force (BGF), for over 31 000 counts of onl...

Posted on 10 Oct 2025

Author(s): Jason G Tower

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Augusto Lima

AML unit Coordinator, Rio Grande do Norte's Prosecutor Office

...Augusto Lima is a distinguished State Prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Rio Grande do Norte, where he has served since 2010. Throughout his career, he has held numerous leadership and ...

Posted on 08 Oct 2025
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Dr. Gohar Petrossian

Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York

...Dr. Gohar Petrossian is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, and the Executive Officer of the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program at City University of New York - Graduate Center. Dr Petro...

Posted on 08 Oct 2025
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Fausto Carbajal Glass

Senior Advisor on Political Risk and Security, Miranda Partners

...Fausto is Senior Advisor at Miranda Partners and founder of Delphi Solutions and Strategic Services, a consultancy and scientific research firm based in Mexico City, concentrating on political risk an...

Posted on 08 Oct 2025
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