Publishing date 3 Aug 2009

Study on extortion racketeering

Publishing date 3 Aug 2009

The Need for an Instrument to Combat Activities of Organised Crime

This report covers all the activities regarding the project Study on “Extortion Racketeering – The need for an instrument to combat activities of Organised Crime” awarded by the European Commission (Contract No.JLS/2008/D2/002).

The study aims at assessing the magnitude of the problem of extortion racketeering across european member states as well as whether and how this phenomenon should be tackled.

Learn more about the project