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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,…
Preventing the misuse of commercial aviation
TENACITy Research in Brief
The FERMI project at a glance
Fake News Risk Mitigator
Major Public Projects and Integrity: The M4 Experience
In collaboration between Transcrime, Crime&tech and M4
On the enforcement of targeted sanctions
Estimating the control of sanctioned Russian entities over European companies and proposing a methodology to detect sanction circumvention
EU Asset Recovery System Failure: An Incentive for the Internationalisation of Organised Crime?
The study benefits from analyses from the European RECOVER project.
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.
Political Graft in Europe on the Loose
Anti-Corruption Legal Frameworks in Comparative Historical Perspective
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…
Waste crime investigation phases and the role of emerging technologies
EMERITUS Research in Brief - A Crime&tech project
