Shehryar Fazli joins Disruption Network Lab’s panel on Narconomics: Transnational Drug Trafficking & Corruption

Shehryar Fazli of Open Society – Asia Pacific), presented his latest recent research on the regional impact of Afghanistan's drug trade on Pakistan, Iran, and Tajikistan during a panel on "Narconomics: Transnational Drug Trafficking & Corruption" at Disruption Network Lab's conference, "Organised Crime: a Global Business."

Drug trafficking is a highly lucrative market worldwide, with an estimated value of 30 billion Euro per year in the European Union, and is estimated to account nearly 1.5% of total global trade. In the context of transnational organised crime, it is an especially complex form of criminal activity, frequently involving several states and often overlapping with other offences, including financial crime and cybercrime. This panel details how drugs are trafficked and how this impacts technical and organisational complexity, with crime groups involved becoming more specialised and more fully interconnected.

The panel was moderated by Denisse Rodriguez Olivari (Researcher, School of Transnational Governance, EUI, PE/IT). Speakers included: Stevan Dojčinović (Investigative Reporter and Editor, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP, SRB) and, Floriana Bulfon (Investigative Journalist, IT).