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Downfall

...Yevgeny Prigozhin’s story is one of stark transformation – from prisoner to one of Russia’s wealthiest and most influential power players. Quietly amassing a sprawling business empire under Vlad...

Posted on 06 Nov 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

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Paul Malaluan

Finance Officer, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Paul joined the team as Finance Officer in Geneva. He is currently completing his studies in International Business Management at the Haute Ecole de Gestion....

Posted on 05 Nov 2024

Global Initiative

Highly potent synthetic opioids are already in Europe’s drug supply chains

...In defiance of expectations, Afghanistan’s ban on opium in 2022 appears not to have yet affected the European heroin trade, which shows a high level of stability and reportedly abundant stockpiles. ...

Posted on 05 Nov 2024

Author(s): Daniel Brombacher, Ruggero Scaturro

HT-Obs

Violence and Resilience in Haiti: Risk Bulletin #2

Observatory of Violence and Resilience in Haiti

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Click here to view the Global Organized Crime Index fr Français Observatory of Violence and Resilience in Haiti Issue 2 November 2024 Summary highlights Gangs’ expansion ...

Posted on 05 Nov 2024

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Can the UNTOC work without civil society’s active involvement?

...Nearly a quarter of a century after the adoption of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) in 2000, the fruits of its labour are not readily apparent – transnati...

Posted on 04 Nov 2024

Author(s): Ian Tennant

04 Nov

EAS-Obs

Gangsters at War: Russia’s Use of Organized Crime as an Instrument of Statecraft

Gangsters at War

...Since 2012, Russia has strategically used criminal networks to evade sanctions, conduct intelligence, and destabilize the West. Under Putin’s “mobilization state,” illegal activities—from smug...

Posted on 04 Nov 2024

Author(s): Mark Galeotti

23 Oct

SEE-Obs

Integrity and independence of criminal justice institutions in the Western Balkans

... Click here to download the executive summaries Despite reforms, political influence continues to affect prosecutorial and police services across Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,...

Posted on 01 Nov 2024

Author(s): Ugljesa (Ugi) Zvekic, Ioannis Vlassis

Global Initiative

Iran’s criminal statecraft: How Tehran weaponizes illicit markets

Iran's criminal statecraft

...Over the past decade, Iran has turned to criminal markets as a strategic tool to pursue its geopolitical goals. Isolated by international sanctions, Iran has forged extensive ties with criminal networ...

Posted on 30 Oct 2024

Author(s): J.R. Mailey

Global Organized Crime Index

The spoils of crime: Returning profit from crime to society

...Profit and power drive organized crime groups. Whether operating cocaine routes through Belgium or the Netherlands, trafficking arms and ammunitions in the Western Balkans, or smuggling humans across ...

Posted on 29 Oct 2024

Author(s): Chiara Gentili

Global Initiative

Narcas

...Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán is a name that stands out in the world of organized crime, on par with figures such as Al Capone and Pablo Escobar. But during El Chapo’s trial in 2018–2019, one wo...

Posted on 29 Oct 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

After the war on drugs: The impacts of cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro

After the war on drugs:

...What would the consequences of the potential cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro be? This report dives into analyzing these potential impacts in a city long plagued by violence linked to...

Posted on 28 Oct 2024

Author(s): Carolina Christoph Grillo

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Carolina Christoph Grillo

...Carolina Christoph Grillo is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences Methodology at Fluminense Federal University in Brazil and coordinator of the Group of Studies on New Illega...

Posted on 28 Oct 2024

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