The changing DNA of crime
The Europol Podcast
Europol
4.6 • 7 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The battle against serious and organised crime is no longer fought in the streets, but in cyberspace, in artificial intelligence labs, dark-web markets, and the shadows of geopolitics. The very DNA of organised crime is changing. It is growing, evolving and becoming more dangerous.
In this episode, you'll learn about the transformation of organised crime, as identified in Europol's flagship report, the EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (EU-SOCTA). You'll hear how the EU is responding to those new threats both strategically and operationally.
This is the first episode of season 3 of The Europol Podcast. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and follow Europol on social media to be notified when future episodes are released.
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| 0:00.0 | This has to be a wake-up call because organized crime is growing, it's evolving, it's becoming more dangerous. |
| 0:09.0 | This is not business as usual. |
| 0:11.0 | The game has changed on our internal security in a number of ways. |
| 0:16.0 | We need the whole of society to be aware. |
| 0:19.0 | What we see is that the EU is becoming purely a target from different state actors |
| 0:25.6 | and that they are using criminals and criminals are using them. |
| 0:36.1 | Welcome to the Europol podcast, the official podcast of the EU Agency for Law Enforcement Corporation. |
| 0:42.6 | In this new season of the Europol podcast, we will reveal the latest trends in serious and |
| 0:47.5 | organised crime. We will introduce you to the DNA of serious and organized crime, and together |
| 0:52.1 | we will find out how and why crime is evolving, |
| 0:55.0 | how Europol is adapting to stay ahead of criminals, and what that means for you. |
| 1:00.8 | Today's episode, The Changing DNA of Crime. |
| 1:06.0 | It's Olivia here, and I'm joined today by Europol's executive director, Catherine de Bola, the head of the EU's |
| 1:12.0 | law enforcement agency, to find out what she has to say about serious and organized crime in the EU |
| 1:17.0 | today and what we can tell about the future. |
| 1:20.1 | Europol says that the very DNA of organized crime has changed. What do you mean by that? |
| 1:25.0 | So organized crime is undergoing a fundamental transformation, |
| 1:29.1 | and that's why we say the DNA of organized crime is changing. |
| 1:33.2 | First, crime is becoming more destabilizing |
| 1:36.2 | because it corrods the economy, the political setting, the social structures. |
| 1:42.2 | Organized crime generates illicit money that fuels violence and extends |
| 1:47.5 | corruption. It's not about just making money. We see that there is a growing collaboration |
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