Transnational Organized Crime: Cartels, Cyber Fraud, and Criminal-Financial Nexus

Enforcement is targeting Black Axe, Latin American cartels, laundering networks, and scam economies, but criminal groups continue adapting through ports, legitimate trade, cryptocurrency, drones, deepfakes, and militant or state-linked relationships. New analysis of 'Ndrangheta networks in Ecuador highlights the broker-financier role and cocaine flows through commercial export infrastructure.