Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics

Amphetamines, Anarchy, and Assad

...As Syria's bloody civil war boils on, the nation has become fertile ground for the growth of criminal activity.  As we described in the August AOC brief, Syria has become a regional hub for weapons s...

Posted on 06 Oct 2013

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

A sting in the tale

...October was a big month for "sting" operations: those interdiction efforts where covert operations are used to take out high value targets in the upper echelons of a criminal of a criminal operation. ...

Posted on 06 Oct 2013

Development Dialogue, Wildlife Watch

Featuring the Global Initiative’s work on Environmental Crime

..."If we win the war against environmental crime only to discover there are no tigers left, then that will be a hollow victory." So said John M. Sellar, former Chief of Law Enforcement at CITES, at th...

Posted on 04 Oct 2013

Global Initiative

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief – September 2013

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief- September 2013

...Organized crime featured high on the headlines this September (not least because of the launch of the Global Initiative), and in a very diverse ways:  high-profile indictments of art thieves, matc...

Posted on 03 Oct 2013

Development Dialogue

Global Initiative launches to a packed room at the UN in NY

...GITOC The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime was pleased to host over over 100 representatives from diverse, globally representative states, international organizations, civil s...

Posted on 27 Sep 2013

Private Sector

Counterfeit Medicines and Criminal Organisations

...The combat against counterfeiting started during the 1980s and, at that time, was limited to sectors where it was frequently the consumer who asked for the product, and was even party to the purchase....

Posted on 23 Sep 2013

Gold Watch, Private Sector, TOCLaw

Natural Riches? Perspectives on Responsible Natural Resource Management in Conflict-affected Countries

...To meet growing global demand, natural resources are under increasing pressure. New sources have entered global markets – many of them in developing or emerging economies. Valuable resources such as...

Posted on 18 Sep 2013

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

It’s not about winning … it’s about playing the game?

...The integrity of the world’s most popular sport was shaken to its foundations this September, as match-fixing scandals broke in four corners of the globe.  Police in Singapore arrested 14 people sa...

Posted on 06 Sep 2013

Global Initiative

The Gathering Storm: China’s Growing Illicit Economy

...China’s police struck the traffickers in early September. In a series of coordinated raids across eleven provinces, the police rescued 92 children and arrested 301 human trafficking suspects. While ...

Posted on 06 Sep 2013

Global Initiative

Countering the Cybercrime Avalanche

...A vibrant discussion panel at the Global Initiative Launch explored the myriad of ways that the internet has fundamentally changed the nature of organized crime and opened a Pandora’s box of illicit...

Posted on 06 Sep 2013

Global Initiative

A Market on Fire: The Trade in Art and Antiquities

...The raiders moved with impressive speed.  In under 96 seconds they entered Amsterdam’s Kunsthal Museum, stole between €18 million and €200 million in art, and vanished.  However, for all their...

Posted on 06 Sep 2013

Private Sector

Know Your Customer: Understand the AML threat beyond the customer

...This paper discusses issues beyond KYC as we know it to mean ‘’Know Your Customer. We also investigate three criminal activities that either facilitate or lead to money laundering and involve seem...

Posted on 17 Aug 2013