Global Initiative

Captured riches: The message in CAR’s disappearing diamond

...In January 2025, a 177-carat rough diamond, one of the largest ever found in the Central African Republic (CAR), disappeared without a trace. Sources familiar with the case told the Global Initiative ...

Posted on 24 Oct 2025

Author(s): Nathalia Dukhan, Ruben De Koning, Zobel Behalal

24 Nov

Resilience Fund, WEA-Obs

From context to action: Investigating illicit gold trafficking and conflict dynamics in West Africa

...Reporting on illicit economies and instability helps communities understand the root causes of conflict. This webinar series is organized in the context of the Global Initiative Against Transnational...

Posted on 24 Oct 2025
18 Nov

Resilience Fund, WEA-Obs

Du contexte à l’action : Enquête sur les économies illicites et les groupes extrémistes violents en Afrique de l’Ouest

...Le reportage sur les économies illicites et l'instabilité aide les communautés à comprendre les racines des conflits. Cette série de webinaires est organisée dans le cadre du projet de l'Initia...

Posted on 24 Oct 2025

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
28 Oct

Sanctions and organized crime, SEE-Obs

Beyond the blacklist: How effective are sanctions in the Western Balkans?

...This webinar introduces ‘Beyond the blacklist: How effective are sanctions in the Western Balkans,’ an analysis with case studies on how sanctioned individuals and entities adapt and continue in t...

Posted on 16 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

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