FATF publishes its 2025 Asset Recovery Guidance and Best Practices, providing strategies/case studies to strengthen the tracing, freezing, and confiscation of criminal assets while protecting victims rights

It covers the full asset recovery lifecycle from investigation to management and return of assets emphasizing specialized units, inter-agency coordination, access to beneficial ownership data, and robust international cooperation through formal and informal channels....

GFI’s 2025 report Shadow Figures: Transnational Crime, estimates US$16 trillion in annual illicit flows mainly from cybercrime, revealing data gaps, impacts on developing countries, and need for urgent global action

The report estimates that revenues from ten major transnational crimes including drug trafficking, counterfeiting, human trafficking, illegal logging and mining, illegal fishing, wildlife trafficking, small arms trafficking, oil theft, cultural‑property trafficking,...