Guinea-Bissau Part 1: Civil Society and Illicit Markets | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
A look at how a self-interested political and military elite used profits from illicit markets to fuel their own ambitions at the expense of the wider population. This is a story of corruption, dirty...
16 Apr 202134min
The Fall of EncroChat | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
In June 2020, EncroChat users received a flurry of panicked messages from the company claiming its encrypted network had been hacked by "government entities". What unravelled was one of the biggest ha...
12 Jan 202140min
Child Sexual Abuse Material, COVID and Technology | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
With more people working from home than ever before due to the pandemic,. But another parallel pandemic is taking place, that of online child sexual abuse material which has taken a sharp rise around ...
20 Nov 202049min
Under the Shadow: Illicit Economies in Iran | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
In this podcast, Jack is looking at the latest Global Initative Against Transnational Organized Crime report called 'Under the Shadow: Illicit Economies in Iran', which looks at how the illicit econom...
10 Nov 202048min
Extortion in the Northern Triangle | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
In the Northern Triangle countries of Central America - Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, extortion is so pervasive that it has been called “A way of life”.The growth in extortion in the region was...
10 Sep 202039min
Transnational Tentacles | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
Transnational Tentacles: Global Hotspots of Balkan Organized Crime.The Western Balkans is well understood now as an important transit point for the smuggling of drugs, arms and people. But what has be...
24 Jul 202036min
Illegal Logging & Organized Crime in Chihuahua, Mexico | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
People and Forests at Risk: Organized Crime, trafficking in persons and deforestation in Chihuahua, Mexico.The highland ranges of the Sierra Madre are cool and temperate forests – with several species...
26 Jun 202040min
Insurgency and Illicit trade in Northern Mozambique | Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime
How will the ongoing violent Islamist insurgency in the Cabo Delgado region of Northern Mozambique overlap with the organized criminal networks that operate in the area. How has the corruption within ...
25 Mai 202025min
