Transnational Tentacles: Global Hotspots of Balkan Organized Crime.

The Western Balkans is well understood now as an important transit point for the smuggling of drugs, arms and people. But what has been less understood is how over the past few decades, criminal groups within the Western Balkans region and the global diaspora have carved out a place within the very highest echelons of the criminal world.

Paper: Transnational Tentacles: Global Hotspots of Balkan Organized Crime.

Guests:

Walter Kemp, Senior Fellow at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Fatjona Mejdini, Field Network Coordinator, Balkans at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Susana Morán, investigative journalist in Ecuador specialising in organized crime

Mandy Wiener, journalist, broadcaster and author of Killing Kebble: An Underworld Exposed