{"id":13851,"date":"2025-11-06T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/06\/stopping-organized-crime-following-money\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:14:44","slug":"stopping-organized-crime-following-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/11\/06\/stopping-organized-crime-following-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Organized Crime by Following the Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high-level UN event will mark the second International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime on 11 November 2025 at <strong>11:30 CET<\/strong>, under the banner &#8220;Follow the money. Stop organized crime.&#8221; The initiative stresses the central role of tracing illicit financial flows to expose and dismantle criminal networks that exploit communities and natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Transnational organized crime now reaches into every region, driving illicit markets from the drug trade and narco-deforestation to cybercrime, human trafficking and the trafficking of firearms and critical minerals. These networks generate billions of dollars in illicit proceeds each year, enabling them to expand activities and diversify into new crimes while remaining concealed from traditional oversight.<\/p>\n<p>The human cost of organized crime is immense. UNODC analysis shows that between 2015 and 2021 roughly 22 percent of global intentional homicides were linked to organized crime, amounting to around 100,000 deaths a year. The damage goes further: falsified medicines threaten public health, illegal logging and mining destroy ecosystems, unlawful waste dumping pollutes rivers, and scams and economic crime erode trust in institutions and financial systems.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of these harms is the ability of criminal groups to generate, move, conceal and reinvest illicit profits. Today they increasingly rely on sophisticated digital tools, cryptocurrencies, shell companies and emerging technologies to mask the origins and destinations of funds, moving money faster and across borders with greater discretion than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Stopping organized crime means targeting the financial backbone that sustains it. Tracing illicit finance can reveal the networks behind crimes, help law enforcement to disrupt operations, support prosecutions and facilitate asset recovery. Cross-border cooperation and collaboration across public and private sectors are essential to follow the money and cut off the incentives that drive criminal enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>For Pakistan and other countries in the region, stronger financial transparency, regulatory vigilance and international cooperation are key to protecting communities and natural resources from the reach of transnational criminal groups. The 11 November event will be webcast on UN WebTV and offers a platform for policymakers, law enforcement, financial regulators and civil society to reinforce commitments to follow illicit funds and restore justice for affected communities.<\/p>\n<p>Only by tracing and disrupting illicit financial flows can we meaningfully reduce the power of organized criminal networks and advance long-term sustainable development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow illicit finance to stop organized crime \u2014 join the UN event on 11 Nov 2025 to learn how asset recovery and cross-border action can disrupt criminal networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}