![]() This panoply of criminal activities and illicit economies have broad characteristics. Extortion is the kind of crime where predatory and transactional illegal economies intersect corruption is another one. But major illicit economies also include old-fashioned extortion – whether by criminal groups or militant actors. Nearly all of these economies are operating around the world. More niche activities include smuggling in weapons of mass destruction materials, gasoline or oil theft, water theft and smuggling, and, most recently in the COVID era, sales of fake medical products. The illicit economies involve a wide scope of commodities and services, with some of the most iconic ones including drug trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, illegal logging and mining, poaching and wildlife trafficking, smuggling in counterfeiting of goods, cybercrime, gun smuggling and money laundering. Vanda Felbb-Brown: Organized crime and illicit economies are enormously varied and diverse, highly dynamic and adaptive and innovative, with innovation often emerging in response to law enforcement actions. Project Coordinator - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Foundation in Colombia (FESCOL)
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