This online world has become the primary hunting ground for those criminals that are actually

prowling for those kids.

36 arrests, including three high-value targets arrested, eight tons of cocaine ceased in various

instances and more than 50 million of euros in assets.

Society is destabilized by the cooperation,

collaboration between criminal networks and terrorist networks and hybrid threat actors.

Criminal networks still want to make profits.

And it doesn't matter what type of activity that they execute to gain that profit.

Welcome back to the Europol podcast. In the last episode, you heard about the DNA of serious and

organized crime. Serious and organized crime is not just a threat to public safety. It impacts

the very foundations of the EU and our society. Serious and organised crime has a double destabilising effect on the EU.

It undermines our economy, rule of law and our society

by generating illicit proceeds, spreading violence and normalising corruption.

But the threat does not stop there. Increasingly, criminal networks serve as proxies for

hybrid threat actors, exploiting vulnerabilities to destabilise the EU and its member states from

within. Today's episode, How Criminal Networks, De-Stabilise the EU.

Drugs, firearms trafficking, hybrid threats, and organised criminal networks recruiting young people to carry out acts of violence, including contract killings.

These are a few examples which we will explore in this episode to find out how serious and organised crime is destabilizing the EU.

I'm Olivia and I'm joined today by Andy Krak, the head of the European Serious Organized Crime Center. What is the serious and organized crime landscape today? I'll just going to give you

a couple of highlights. To highlights from different

perspectives, what we think that's important. For instance, on drugs, if we look at drugs right

now, we see this diversification in methods, we see it in routes, and we see it in concealment.

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