Estimating illicit financial flows resulting from drug trafficking and other transnational organised crime

Garnered through the proceeds of illicit trafficking and other forms of organised profit-motivated crime, dirty money promotes bribery and corruption and finances insurgency. It also destabilises and deters legitimate enterprise, foreign investment and development. This overview analyses the nature of illicit financial flows, the socio-economic impacts as well as the existing international instruments to tackle this problem, and provides a case study of the transnational cocaine market.