Tracfin publie son cinquième rapport annuel consacré à l’analyse des tendances et des risques en matière de blanchiment de capitaux et de financement du terrorisme. Ce rapport 2018-2019 intervient à un moment crucial puisque l’année 2020 sera celle de l’évaluation de la France par le Groupe d’action financière (GAFI), dans le cadre du quatrième cycle…
In the preparation of a 2020 research project on the enhancement of the authorities registers and e-administration empowerment in sub-Saharan African countries as a way to counter grand corruption, the OCO (Organized Crime Observatory » is issuing this call of information about Grand Corruption / State Corruption cases in the following African countries: Ghana, Nigeria, DRC,…
The inception impact assessment (IIA) is ill-conceived, not grounded on firm empirical evidence and harmful to both crime control and the legitimate interests and rights of the EU citizens. The action under discussion is presented as a measure against terrorism finance, serious crime and tax evasion. The problem is that these criminal acts correspond to…
The will take place between the 24th and 28th of June 2019.The Week, organised by the Geneva Platform on Human Rights, Health and Psychoactive Substances which is supported by the Swiss Confederation and the Canton of Geneva, will bring together relevant local and international actors for dozen of events across town – conferences, round tables, debates, film screening,…
Since the end of 2018, protestors in Albania, Montenegro and Serbia have been taking to the streets to express their frustration and anger at corruption and organized crime. Journalists in the region are being targeted for exposing high-level graft, like Olivera Lakić, who, in May 2018, was shot in the leg after revealing the complicity…
L’ex-présidente argentine Cristina Kirchner (2007-2015) sera bien jugée dans le scandale des «Cahiers de la corruption» qui a dévoilé un système dans lequel des chefs d’entreprise versaient des millions de dollars à de hauts fonctionnaires en échange de marchés publics. La cour d’appel a confirmé la décision prise en septembre par le juge Claudio Bonadio qui…
An article by Max Blumenthal to read here. Not only are white supremacists from across the West flocking to Ukraine to learn from the combat experience of their fascist brothers-in-arms, they are doing so openly, under the nose of a shrugging law enforcement — chronicling their experiences on social media before they bring their lessons back home….
STATEMENT of the Coalition for the Protection of Civil Society regarding assassination of Kateryna Handziuk: activists demand the resignation of Lutsenko and Avakov Kateryna Handziuk, a public activist and employee of the executive committee of Kherson City Council, died on November 4 in the burn center of Kyiv City Hospital №2. The death happened three…
The Italian Anti-Mafia Investigation Department released new data regarding the Napoiltan Camorra. See the full article here.
Italy is not the only country with an organized crime problem. But movies and TV shows like “Scarface,” “The Godfather” and “Gomorrah” have made the Italian mobs – in both their southern Italian and American incarnations – world-famous. Such pop culture portrayals tend to romanticize a dangerous phenomenon that’s all too real for those whose lives…
