Our new paper ‘Organised crime, corruption, and the vulnerability of defence and security forces’ draws a connection between corruption and organised crime.

The Defence & Security team at Transparency International has long considered organised crime to be a major contributor to corruption in the defence and security sector.

With our new paper we are trying to explore this link further, and raise awareness about the depth of this issue.

The paper looks into how defence and security forces can themselves become involved in organised crime, often through corruption. We also look at post-conflict environments and stress the importance of joint counter-corruption-anti-organised crime cooperation.

In order to explain these findings further, we wrote the blog ‘Corruption feeds organised crime and organised crime feeds corruption.’

In April we also wrote a short editorial article addressing the issues in this paper, called ‘Organised Crime: Joint Responsibility’ by Mark Pyman and William Hughes, which featured in the April issue of Chatham House’s The World Today.

Download ‘Organised crime, corruption, and the vulnerability of defence and security forces.’

Read our blog ‘Corruption feeds organised crime and organised crime feeds corruption’.

Read Chatham House’s The World Today article ‘Organised Crime: Joint Responsibility.'