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In 2024 the Global Initiative published a report on the criminal background to migrant smuggling across the English Channel. [ 20 ] The Global Initiative provides briefings to the United Nation Security Council, highlighting that the United Nations System needs a coherent, streamlined and strategic approach to combat organized crime and to ...
A standardised survey project called the International Crime Victims Survey [8] Results from this project have been briefly discussed earlier in this article. In 2019, the Global Organized Crime Index found that DRC had the highest rate of criminality. [9] [10]
Since the 2021 coup d'état, many fraud/scam groups and criminal syndicates have chosen Myanmar as a base for its poaching and trafficking of people for cyber crimes, arms and drugs smuggling, making the country "the biggest nexus of organized crime" on the Global Organized Crime Index.
Latin America has become a site of global competition. The United States must realign its focus on the region to promote economic prosperity and defeat corruption and organized crime, which will ...
In 2022, Singapore ranked as the first safest country or area in the Global Law and Order Index. [3] It was also ranked third safest city in 2021 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, [4] [5] and 24th safest out of 136 countries in the Global Organised Crime Index by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. [6] [7]
The Smart and TGR networks were two money laundering networks that were shut down by an international police operation in 2024. [1] [2] The networks provided services for clients based in Dubai. [3] The TGR group was the more senior entity of the two according to United States authorities. [3]
Transnational organized crime (TOC) is organized crime coordinated across national borders, involving groups or markets of individuals working in more than one country to plan and execute illegal business ventures. [1] In order to achieve their goals, these criminal groups use systematic violence and corruption.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published its annual Global Competitiveness Report, which looks at dozens of measures of economic and institutional health to compile a ranking of countries.