All publications

3 Feb 2026

The fugazi papers, or on the importance of false invoicing for organised crime and the money laundering market

An analysis of drivers, mechanisms and actors

19 Jan 2026

Name Your Price: Exploring the Costs of Professional Money Laundering Services in Large-Scale Cases in the United States

The fight against money laundering has motivated the establishment of a far-reaching regime worldwide. Despite debate over its effectiveness, empirical evidence on the pricing of money laundering services is limited, primarily due to the dearth of data and information on money laundering. To address this knowledge gap, this study examines…

29 Dec 2025

A data-driven approach to measure money laundering risk and its relationship with corruption

The issue of how the money laundering (ML) risk of countries is measured is not a merely technical problem. It has a strong impact on countries’ development, in particular of the Global South. First, because official anti-money laundering (AML) blacklists and grey lists, which frequently include developing and small countries,…

16 Dec 2025

Preventing the misuse of commercial aviation

TENACITy Research in Brief

5 Dec 2025

The FERMI project at a glance

Fake News Risk Mitigator

3 Dec 2025

Major Public Projects and Integrity: The M4 Experience

In collaboration between Transcrime, Crime&tech and M4

14 Nov 2025

On the enforcement of targeted sanctions

Estimating the control of sanctioned Russian entities over European companies and proposing a methodology to detect sanction circumvention

14 Nov 2025

EU Asset Recovery System Failure: An Incentive for the Internationalisation of Organised Crime?

The study benefits from analyses from the European RECOVER project.

7 Nov 2025

Social Embeddedness, Multiplexity, and Criminal Collaboration Within the Sinaloa Cartel

This study examines how social embeddedness and multiplex social ties shape criminal collaboration in the Sinaloa Cartel. It investigates how different types of relationships—such as kinship, friendship, meetings, and compadre ties—influence participation in drug crimes and broader forms of collaboration.

30 Oct 2025

Political Graft in Europe on the Loose

Anti-Corruption Legal Frameworks in Comparative Historical Perspective