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.
BT - Connections: The Quarterly Journal DA - Summer 2016 DO - https://doi.org/10.11610/Connections.15.3.03 IS - 3 N2 -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.
PY - 2016 SP - 33 EP - 39 T2 - Connections: The Quarterly Journal TI - Transnational Organized Crime – Latvian Challenges and Responses VL - 15 ER -