Europol Releases 2025 EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment

The report analyses intelligence from EU member states and global law enforcement agencies to anticipate future threats from organised crime.

Key takeaways include:

➡️ Destabilisation: Organised crime is increasingly damaging the foundations of society through illicit financing, money laundering, and facilitating the activities of hybrid threat actors.

➡️ Digital enablement: Criminal enterprise is increasingly exploiting digital infrastructure to enable activities such as cyber fraud, money laundering, and ransomware.

➡️ Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI): Criminals are using AI to automate and rapidly scale their operations while making them increasingly difficult to detect.

➡️ Post-war criminal shifts: The evolving situation in Russia & Ukraine is expected to reshape organised crime in the EU, driving illicit firearms trafficking, money laundering, and corruption linked to reconstruction efforts.

✅ Firms should review their transaction monitoring and customer screening systems, ensuring they are robust and mitigate the emerging threats identified in the report. Are your Transaction Monitoring segmentations effectively set up to monitor specific high-risk sectors?

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