cover image: RESEARCH REPORT NEW FRONT LINES - Organized criminal economies in Ukraine in 2022

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RESEARCH REPORT NEW FRONT LINES - Organized criminal economies in Ukraine in 2022

22 Feb 2023

According to senior sources in the Ukrainian police, incidents of armed robberies declined by a factor of between three and four, and the homicide rate dropped to almost zero at the beginning of the war (although this may partly reflect the impact of the war on reporting in the early days of the war).3 It may be that the impact of the invasion also whittled out some less robust and resilient organ. [...] While the battles on the ground and in the political London property portfolios.6 The second is that this is the and economic space are understandably dominating atten- first war being waged not only on the battlefield, but also tion, there is a broad body of research that points to the in the sinews of globalization. [...] The economic cost of the conflict to the oligarchs has also been high: the destruction of Ukraine’s energy and industrial infrastructure in the east and south-east of the country has caused several fortunes to plummet by hundreds of millions of dollars.66 The implementation of Zelensky’s ‘deoligar- chisation’ law has been put on hold while the conflict rages, but in the course of 2022 several olig. [...] In July 2022, the Ukrainian parlia- ment set up a commission to monitor the flow and use of arms in Ukraine,92 the US has implemented a framework that appears to have been effective in preventing significant leakages in weapons travelling to the front line,93 and the EU has established a hub in Moldova to tackle trafficking in arms and people.94 The types of weapons involved may also have had a be. [...] The early days of the war saw the temporary suspension of the ProZorro procurement system in favour of direct contracts and the blocking of public access to several state registries,176 several of which remained restrict- ed.177 NABU has cited challenges caused by the conflict, including a ‘lack of access to the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations and the Unified Judicial Information and T.
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