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Atanas Rusev

Director Security Program at Center for the Study of Democracy

Atanas Rusev has over ten years of experience in security research, policy analysis and consultancy across governmental and non-government sectors. His research focuses on organised crime, criminal markets and, in particular, trafficking in human beings, illicit tobacco trade, extortion, loansharking, drug trafficking and drug markets, organised VAT frauds, corruption and organised crime, money laundering and confiscated criminal assets.

He is the author of various publications on the financing of organised crime, organised crime threat assessment, corruption and organised crime and confiscation of criminal assets. He also participated in a number of evaluations and studies commissioned by DG Home, such as the Study on Serious and Organised Crime Infiltration in the Legal Economy, published in 2021 and the Study on Online Identity Theft and Identity-Related Crime, published in 2022.

  • Rusev, A., T. Bezlov, (2022) ”COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis and Its Impact on Crime Rates in Bulgaria.’’ In Siegel, D., Dobryninas, A., Becucci, S. (eds). Covid-19, Society and Crime in Europe. Studies of Organized Crime, vol 21. Springer, Cham.
  • Rusev, A., Dimitrova, K., M. Karayotova (2021). ”The exploitation of new payment methods and nonbank payment methods by organised crime groups”. In Hulme, S., Disley, E. and Blondes, E. (eds.) Mapping the risk of serious and organized crime infiltrating legitimate businesses. Brussels, European Commission.
  • Rusev, A., Gerganov, A., Dimitrova, K. (2021). ”Trafficking in human beings”. In Hulme, S., Disley, E. and Blondes, E. (eds.), Mapping the risk of serious and organized crime infiltrating legitimate businesses. Brussels, European Commission.
  • Rusev, A., Gerganov, A., Legato, M. (2021). ”Organised Property Crime”. In Hulme, S., Disley, E. Blondes, E. (eds.), Mapping the risk of serious and organized crime infiltrating legitimate businesses. Brussels, European Commission.
  • Rusev, A. (2020). ”Extortion”. Oxford Bibliographies. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Rusev, A., Gerganov, A., Bezlov, T., Sabev, M. (2019). ”The Illicit Cigarette Trade along the Balkan Route: Measuring Vulnerabilities and Threats”. Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia.

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