UNODC’s 2025 Organised Crime brief warns that agile transnational criminal networks are fusing cybercrime, trafficking, and environmental crime, exploiting technology and weak governance

The report finds that organised criminal networks increasingly merge across illicit markets—such as drugs, cyber fraud, human trafficking and wildlife crime—exploiting weak governance, digital technologies and globalisation to multiply their reach. It also shows that these networks inflict substantial harm on governance, human rights and development by corrupting institutions, eroding the rule of law and deepening societal vulnerability…