ARIEL - Assessing the Risk of the Infiltration of OrganizedCrime in EU MSs Legitimate Economies

Project Assessing the Risk of the Infiltration of Organized Crime in EU MSs Legitimate Economies: a Pilot Project in 5 EU Countries (ARIEL) (HOME/2012/ISEC/FP/C1/4000003801) aims to identify the vulnerabilities of legitimate businesses to infiltration by organized crime (OC) groups. In particular, the project has two objectives: To identify the methods used by different OC groups to infiltrate, control, and manage legitimate businesses in 5 selected EU Member States (IT, UK, NL, SE, SI), which have been chosen in order to maximise the coverage of the EU territory; To identify risk factors of OC infiltration for the development of a common risk-assessment model (CRAM) to detect the infiltration of legitimate businesses by criminal groups. The CRAM could be further updated and tested in other EU MS and international countries.