Arms trafficking in South East Asia is diversifying—beyond legacy weapons and into digital markets, conversion kits, and criminal convergence. The region’s arms trafficking score rose from 4.82 to 5.23 (2021–2023), according to the #OCIndex. 👉

Communities across East Africa are struggling with illegal fishing, which may damage their ecosystems and sources of livelihood over time. Our April visit to #GIResilience partner TEDI shows that Resilience cannot be achieved in silos.

📣🇪🇺The 3rd European Drug Trends Monitor is out now. 📊It tracks how Europe’s drug markets are changing: from Germany’s cannabis legalization to resilient illicit markets, evolving resin trade and the growing role of procaine in cocaine adulteration👇. 🔗

RT @OEA_SegPublica: 📍Palabras de Andrés Aponte y Edgardo Sandoval, de @GI_TOC, durante la Conferencia Magistral: “Dinámicas Multicriminales….

🌍 Environmental crime devastates communities but remains a low priority. Vague laws & weak penalties make enforcement tough, while deforestation & resource grabs continue. 📽️ This video explores why it’s so hard to stop —and what we can do:

🌿 From July 9–12, Libreville hosts the Conference on Environmental Crime and Human-Wildlife Conflict, organized by @cbfp_pfbc. We’re proud to join @INTERPOL_HQ in facilitating a session on international cooperation to fight environmental crime in the Congo Basin.

☎️ Dnipro is Ukraine’s hub for scam call centres. ~30,000 people work in operations that target Russians, Ukrainians and Europeans. These centres are reportedly shielded by law enforcement and tied to organized crime. Read more ➡️

RT @WJCommission: 🔍 Building capabilities to combat illegal wildlife trade, one skill at a time. This month, the Wildlife Justice Commiss….

💻This July, through our #EcoSolve programme, we’re hosting a virtual open-source intelligence techniques (OSINT) training to strengthen efforts against online illegal wildlife trade. Empowering analysts and investigators with practical tools, in partnership with @WJCommission.

🇰🇪The deployment of organized criminal gangs by politicians to counter peaceful protests in Nairobi has once again raised the spectre of violence in Kenya ahead of the 2027 general elections, threatening peace, cohesion and integration. Read our analysis:

🖌️ In Sinaloa 🇲🇽, murals serve as public memorials in a city marked by violence. “They keep memory alive,” says activist Ximena con X. “They allow us to hope for this never to happen again.”. Learn more about art and #GIResilience:

🇮🇹What does it mean to live among Europe’s most powerful mafia? . Journalist @SanneCMdeBoer moved to Calabria to find out, and joined #Underworlds to talk about it. From the Duisburg massacre to Pope Francis excommunicating the ‘Ndrangheta —listen now:

🌍 Call for speakers! #OC24 returns on 3 Dec 2025: a 16-hour free virtual conference on organized crime. Share your research, connect globally, & shape the debate. Apply by 15 Sept! ➡️

2/ Money laundering in the Western Balkans mixes old tricks with new tactics, exploiting local economies and global financial systems to hide dirty money and make it look clean. 📘 Dive in now:

💸 Dirty money flows into construction, real estate and cash businesses in the #WesternBalkans, concealed by weak oversight and corruption. Our latest report maps the typologies, enablers and risks fuelling these illicit financial flows. 1/ 🧵👇

The infiltration of the gold sector by organized crime groups is further exacerbating existing environmental harms. 🔗 Read more: #ASGM #Ecuador #MinamataConvention

🌊 Gold ore tailings with cyanide & mercury are dumped into rivers, creating dead zones near Portovelo, in Ecuador. Despite a 2015 mercury ban, it's still used—sometimes even at home, heightening health dangers. 1/ 🧵👇

3/ Public–private partnerships and financial crime tools are vital to dismantle these networks. Learn more in the full report:

2/ Offences have become more sophisticated, with livestreaming, sextortion and CSAM traded via cross-border chains. Extreme poverty, high-speed internet and privacy coins like Monero enable profit and anonymity.

Trends show that CSEA is no longer only about individual gratification-driven offenders. Organized criminal groups are increasingly involved in producing and selling child sexual abuse material (CSAM) 2/🧵