A Pandemic Pivot: Organized Crime Finds a Way to Thrive in the New Abnormal
Analysis from Europol found that organized crime in 2021 is more flexible and changing in nature, “connecting individual criminal entrepreneurs and smaller groups of criminals mediated by information and contract brokers and supported by criminal service providers lending advice and assistance with expertise in law, finance, logistics, and many other specialist domains.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a significant impact on the organized crime threat landscape in Europe, reshaping how criminal networks operate and uncovering new opportunities for them to thrive on.
