1. Transnational Organized Crime – Latvian Challenges and Responses
- Author:
- Alekejs Loskutovs
- Publication Date:
- 06-2016
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Connections
- Institution:
- Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes
- Abstract:
- This article provides recent evidence from Latvia on activities of organized crime groups, covering illegal border crossing, drug trafficking, economic crime, money laundering, theft of vehicles, human trafficking, and the corruption related to all these types of crime. The concluding section presents regional and European initiatives to counter organized crime, in which Latvian law enforcement agencies participate, as well as the national project to build a fence on the border with the Russian Federation.
- Topic:
- Corruption, Crime, Law Enforcement, and Organized Crime
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Eastern Europe, and Latvia