B.4. Linkages of organized crimes with terrorism
- Organized crimes and terrorism exist because of ineffective governance and weak law and order set up in a country.
- Terrorists can benefit from organized crime as a source of financing or logistical support through the illicit trafficking of arms, persons, drugs, artifacts, and cultural property.
- But terrorist groups can also benefit from the illicit trade in natural resources and wildlife, the abuse of legitimate commercial enterprise, donations, and proceeds of criminal activity, including kidnapping for ransom, extortion, and bank robbery, as well as piracy.
- Transnational organized criminal groups seek to exploit legitimate activities for criminal purposes. How they are reaping profit is becoming more creative.
- As organized crime groups join ever more complex networks spanning the globe, the crimes become increasingly transnational and the types of crime they can commit become diversified.
- New threats to global security are emerging, meaning that people can fall victim to organized crime in an increasing number of ways, in an increasing number of places.
Many factors help the growth of organized crime which eventually aids the larger realm of terrorism-
- Increasing demands for illegal goods in the global market like the trade of Human organs, endangered wildlife, drugs, etc.
- Geographical terrain and open borders.
- Globalization had brought new opportunities and markets for illegal activities of such groups.
- Illegal relations between politicians, bureaucrats, and criminals
- The criminalization of politics.
- Technology also helped them to operate safely.
- The globalization of the economy has helped crime syndicates carry out their illegal activities across the borders with great ease. This has been further facilitated by the phenomenon of digital money. Such organizations, very conveniently find safe havens outside the country.
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