Au sein du Palais des Nations, du 31 octobre au 1er novembre 2019, l’OCO a réuni une dizaine de conférencier venus de Chine, du Brésil, du Canada, des Etats-Unis, de France, d’Italie et d’autres pays d’Europe, devant une audience très attentive et spécialisée composée d’avocats, d’étudiants de dernier cycle (Master) et de représentants d’ONGs basées…
After successfully creating a health care app for doctors to view medical records, Diego Fasano, an Italian entrepreneur, got some well-timed advice from a police officer friend: Go into the surveillance business because law enforcement desperately needs technological help. In 2014, he founded a company that creates surveillance technology, including powerful spyware for police and intelligence agencies,…
Due to the overwhelmingly positive response by member States and stakeholders to the Dialogue on Illicit Trade and the Sustainable Development Goals, UNCTAD will host the Illicit Trade Forum in February 2020. This event will be organised in collaboration with the Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT). Sessions of the two-day event will address: The impacts of…
OCO is round to support the project « Free Media for Democracy » in Serbia leaded by Boris Malagurski’s Association Filmosophy. The project’s main objective is to support the development of independent media in Serbia through training of journalists, networking, pilot shows/projects to strengthen independent and objective information of the public. We will keep you updated about this…
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…
