Organized Crime Guide
UNODC Report on Transnational Crime

Investigating Mafia States and Kleptocracies: A Q&A with OCCRP’s Drew Sullivan

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GIJN’s forthcoming guide to investigating organized crime features a chapter on what we call mafia states – countries that essentially operate as a criminal cartel and run the affairs of state much as a crime syndicate runs rackets. To explore this topic, we asked GIJN’s executive director David Kaplan to interview Drew Sullivan, co-founder and editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.

Organized Crime Guide
Organized Crime - Introduction main image

Investigating Organized Crime: A New GIJN Guide

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In concert with GIJC21’s panel on the “New Organized Crime,” GIJN has released a comprehensive, multi-part reporting guide to investigating organized crime around the world, looking at nine key areas: criminal finance, narcotics, arms trade, environmental crime, forced disappearances, cybercrime, mafia states, human trafficking, and art and antiquities. 

GIJC21
GIJN Video Series - Crime and Corruption

Video Resources for Investigating Organized Crime and Corruption

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To share investigative best practices and other lessons learned from our most recent conference, GIJC21, we are releasing a series of videos from the event’s many seminars, panels, and workshops. The first installment in this series focuses on how investigative reporters can better dig into organized crime and corruption around the world.

Document of the Day
2021 Global Organized Crime Index

Document of the Day: Global Organized Crime Index

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State-embedded actors are the most dominant criminal actor type in the world. The degree to which criminality permeates state institutions varies, from low-level corruption to full state capture, but across the spectrum this involvement has implications for countries’ capacity to respond to organized crime.