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🔆Transnational organized crime (TOC). ✅Recently, the heads of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Interpol, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have emphasised the urgent need to intensify efforts to target the massive illicit profits generated by transnational organized crime (TOC). ✅Additionally, the recent revelations from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), a division under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), have shed light on the escalating threat of cybercrime targeting Indian citizens. 📍What is Transnational Organised Crime? ✅Organised crime is defined as illegal activities carried out by groups or networks working together, often involving violence, corruption, or related actions to gain financial or material benefits. ✅Transnational organised crime (TOC) occurs when activities or groups operate in multiple countries. 📍Different Forms: ✅Money Laundering: It disguises financial assets to use them without detection of the illegal activity that produced them. Criminals transform the proceeds of criminal activity into funds with a seemingly legal source. 🔰The estimated amount of money laundered globally exceeds 2% to 5% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or approximately USD 800 billion to USD 2 trillion in just one year. ✅Drug Trafficking: It continues to be the most lucrative form of business for criminals, Global drug trafficking is estimated to be worth USD 650 billion, contributing 30% of the overall illicit economy. ✅Human Trafficking: A global crime where men, women, and children are used for sexual or labour-based exploitation. Human traffickers  are in it for the money, with estimated annual global profits of USD 150 billion. 🔰They victimise an estimated 25 million people worldwide, with 80% in forced labour and 20% in sex trafficking. ✅Smuggling of Migrants: A well-organised business moving people around the globe through criminal networks, groups, and routes. 🔰In 2009, USD 6.6 billion was generated through the illegal Smuggling  of 3 million migrants from Latin America to North America. ✅Illicit Firearms Trafficking: Arms trafficking or gunrunning is the illicit trade of contraband small arms, explosives, and ammunition, which constitutes part of a broad range of illegal activities often associated with transnational criminal organisations. 🔰Brings in around USD 170 million to USD 320 million annually.