Fourth Transnational Criminal Wave: New Extra Regional Actors and Shifting Markets Transform Latin America’s Illicit Economies and Transnational Organized Crime Alliances

Find our NEW ICAIE Research Report by our Senior Advisor, Douglas Farah, published by Florida International University, Summer, 19 June 2024. Transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) in Latin America are undergoing significant transformations, driven by new alliances with extra-regional actors and supported by ideologically flexible authoritarian governments. These changes pose serious threats to democratic governance, the…

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National Security Harms: Third Party Litigation Funding Corrodes the Integrity of Rules-Based Trade, the Rule of Law, the Justice Sector, and Open Markets

Remarks and Statement by David M. Luna, Chair of Anti-Illicit Trade Expert Group (AITEG), Business at OECD; and Executive Director, International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE) The reality today in a more complex, dangerous world, is that we are losing market share to criminals, terrorists, illicit threat networks, and their enablers who use the profits…

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