All publications

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

30 Jul 2025

Ville lumière Ou Ville obscure? Assessing the secrecy of firms owning real estate properties in Paris

The real estate market, especially the luxury one, has long been a target for money laundering purposes. A frequent scheme involves the misuse of legitimate– often offshore– firms to conceal the ownership of properties and the illicit origin of the invested funds. Despite the abundance of investigations, empirical research in…

22 Jul 2025

Waste crime investigation phases and the role of emerging technologies

EMERITUS Research in Brief - A Crime&tech project