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Eco-Solve

New Frontiers in the Fight Against Environmental and Wildlife Crimes 2025

...Environmental crime remains one of the world’s most pressing yet under-addressed threats. From illegal waste trafficking and deforestation to transboundary pollution and biodiversity loss, these cri...

Posted on 06 Oct 2025

06 Nov

Resilience Fund

Lessons of Resilience: Experiences, challenges, and insights from the ground

...Civil society is a frontline actor in responding to organized crime. Building on the Resilience in Action policy brief, this webinar brings together Resilience Fund partners from Latin America, Afric...

Posted on 05 Oct 2025

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix, Patricia Neves

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Catherine M. Woods

Associate MD, Institute for Financial Integrity

...Catherine M. Woods has more than 20 years of experience in global banks, fintech, and crypto, and also served in the Air Force. She specializes in defense public-private partnerships, including irregu...

Posted on 03 Oct 2025

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BC Tan

Managing Director, Kroll

...BC Tan is currently a Managing Director with the Investigations, Diligence and Compliance practice at Kroll. He is an advocate on the use of intelligence, technology and data to more effectively uncov...

Posted on 03 Oct 2025

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Prof. Alberto Aziani

Associate Professor, University of Milano - Bicocca

...Alberto Aziani is Associate Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He specializes in the study of illegal markets, transnational trafficking, illicit financial...

Posted on 03 Oct 2025

Eco-Solve, SA-Obs

Losing ground: The growing illicit trade in South Africa’s ornamental plants

Losing ground

...South Africa is one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, with three globally recognized biodiversity hotspots and exceptionally high levels of endemism. However, this natural heritage is under ...

Posted on 02 Oct 2025

Author(s): Melissa Castlemaine, Sophy Kohler

Global Initiative

Smuggling by signature: How Bulgaria’s shadowy arms trade and corruption in East Africa devised a business plan to sell weapons to one of Mexico’s deadliest cartels

...In July 2025, US prosecutors in Virginia unsealed an indictment accusing Petar Dimitrov Mirchev, a Bulgarian national, of conspiring with East African associates to supply a powerful Mexican drug synd...

Posted on 01 Oct 2025

Author(s): Aleksandar Srbinovski

16 Oct

EAS-Obs

The Commanding Heights of the South Caucasus Underworld

...At a geographic intersection between East and West, the South Caucasus has long sought to work with, or contend with, external powers on either side of the compass. The countries in the former Soviet ...

Posted on 30 Sep 2025

Author(s): Brian Lee, Alexander Kupatadze, Liam O’Shea

Global Organized Crime Index, UN Cyberwatch

The cybercrime arms race

...On 19 September, several European airports experienced flight delays and operational issues after their check-in and boarding systems were hit by a cybersecurity breach, causing disruption for thousan...

Posted on 30 Sep 2025

Author(s): Camilla Silvi Marchini

AMA-Obs

The PCC’s mafia moment

...On 15 September, Ruy Ferraz Fontes, São Paulo’s former police chief, was assassinated by three assailants using high-grade rifles in a busy road in the city of Praia Grande. Ongoing police investig...

Posted on 24 Sep 2025

Author(s): Gabriel Funari

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, AR-Obs

Ecuador’s criminal crisis

...William Joffre Alcívar Bautista, known as 'Negro Willy', rose to lead the Ecuadorian gang Los Tiguerones while serving as a prison guard. After relocating to Spain in September 2023, he allegedly con...

Posted on 22 Sep 2025

Author(s): Renato Rivera

HT-Obs

From criminal governance to community fragmentation: Addressing Haiti’s escalating crisis

From criminal governance to community fragmentation:

...Haiti is undergoing a profound transformation of its crisis, marked by the consolidation of criminal governance, violent territorial fragmentation, and the erosion of state authority. This policy brie...

Posted on 18 Sep 2025

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