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The Impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

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The Impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime is a special edition weekly podcast from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. We'll look at how the ongoing COVID-19 virus is impacting on organized crime around the world and how the illicit economy may affect our ability to respond to the virus. We'll be covering cyber crime, the illegal wildlife trade, counterfeit medicines, drug trafficking, human smuggling, corruption and human trafficking. This podcast uses the followi ...
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It's been a while since our previous episode of The Impact. But in that time the Global Initiative has continued to track the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on organized crime around the world. As the rest of the world shut down, the adaptability and agility of criminal networks has been clear to see – they have found new routes for ille…
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Brazil is a vast country of some 211 million people. A nation full of energy but also plagued by crime; powerful criminal networks like the PCC and Red Commando battle over international and domestic drug trafficking routes. Then there is illegal logging, gold mining, land invasion, human trafficking, high levels of violence, highly militarised law…
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In this bonus episode of The Impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime, Jack sits down with author and former NPR foreign correspondent, Sarah Chayes. In this extended version of the interview which was part of the COVID and Corruption episode, Sarah talks about her experience of studying corruption around the world and how kleptocratic networks capt…
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A different sounding episode as Jack sits down with a collection of organized crime experts to discuss what we have seen over the past few months and what might happen next. Guests: Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Nirmal Ghosh, US Bureau Chief for The Straits Times and member of the GI…
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This Pandemic is causing huge economic impacts. The World Bank has forecast a contraction of 5.3% in global GDP in 2020 – that is the deepest global recession in decades leaving lasting scars on the lives of people living all over the world. And this could manifest itself in many ways - a rush to push government policy through to help combat the im…
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It’s clear that throughout the recorded history of humanity, corruption has been present – and in a modern context Transparency International define corruption as the “abuse of entrusted power for private gain”. In this time of unprecedented economic recession due to the COVID health crisis, organized corruption networks, are in a perfect position …
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We explore the illegal wildlife trade and it's apparent role in the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. The huge socio-economic consequences on the communities where this trade takes place, not to mention the threat to biodiversity, environmental sustainability, the brutality suffered by the animals themselves. The illegal wildlife trade is complex and…
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For over three decades Afghanistan has been the most dominant and largest producer of opium poppy and the production of heroin. From Afghanistan, heroin travels North and South – the northern route takes the heroin through Central Asia and into Russia. The Southern route takes the heroin into Pakistan – From there, like a spider, it spreads in all …
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In Part 2 - Our journey follows the cocaine out of South America and across the Atlantic into Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, which that has been dubbed “a narco-state” by the UN and US. Then onto the the second largest Cocaine market, Europe. Where we’ll talk about the 'Ndrangheta Mafia group from Calabria in Southern Italy, who purportedly control …
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The 1970s was a decade of change. It was on the disco dance floors of Miami and Los Angeles to Rome and London that a new party drug emerged, beginning in jungles of South America, it was sweeping through the night clubs, Cocaine. By the end of the decade, in broad daylight, a drug-related shooting at the Dadeland Mall in Kendall, Florida thrust in…
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This week, we’re going to be talking about human smuggling. Jack will be discussing militarized borders, the closure of smuggling routes, illegal migrants wanting to return home and the fears about what comes next. From the US/Mexico border down into Central America and from the Sahel/Sahara to the Libyan coast and into Europe. This week's guests a…
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This week, Jack is discussing the impact of COVID-19 on human trafficking. A crime where people are trapped through the use of violence, deception, coercion and exploitation for the financial gain of others. He's joined by three of the 2020 Resilience Fellows of the Global Initiative’s Resilience Fund - Ioana Bauer (eLiberare), Judie Kaberia (Journ…
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