The global supply chains moving cocaine from South America's Andean coca zones to North American, European, and emerging markets, the defining geography of transnational organized crime.
Global catch-theft framework covering illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, worth US$10-23 billion in annual losses and increasingly entangled with organized crime and geopolitical fleet rivalries.
The world's dominant synthetic stimulant, manufactured industrially in Myanmar, Mexico, and Afghanistan, funding armed groups and reaching record seizure volumes as the global drug economy pivots away from cropland.
Corruption across global sport, from FIFA bid-rigging to state-sponsored doping, enabled by an estimated US$1.7 trillion in annual illegal betting controlled by organized crime.
Global production topped 3,700 tonnes in the last UNODC count; Ecuadorian ports now move up to 80% of Europe's cocaine as Petro rejects UN monitoring
A January 2026 congressional report calls the ~16,000-vessel fleet a coordinated state instrument; Japan funds drone surveillance off South America
Taliban opium ban coincides with a meth surge; East and Southeast Asia logged a record 236 tonnes seized as Shan State super-labs run flat out