Destroy the criminal economy

Financial gain is one of the main drivers of organised crime. The profit from crime is used, for example, to buy up companies, thereby opening the door to legitimate markets. The big financial gains from organised crime are also an incentive for actors involved to use violence to combat competitors and not lose market shares in the criminal economy.

By striking at opportunities for criminals to enrich themselves from crime, society can reduce the incentives to engage in crime and prevent that profits from crime is used to build up even stronger and better-organised criminal activities. Crime should not pay off. Intensified measures are required to prevent enrichment, as well as measures to recover the proceeds of crime.

Objective

It should be more difficult to enrich oneself from and invest in criminal activities. Criminals must be prevented from benefiting from the proceeds of crime, and more of the proceeds of crime must be recovered.