Press Release: Commission to tackle the links between organised crime and corruption

On 12 February, 2008, the European Commission issued a staff working document examining the links between organised crime and corruption. The paper draws together existing information to identify situations where Organised Crime uses corruption as a tool for infiltrating the public and private sectors. It reviews existing counter-measures and concludes that a better understanding of the links between organised crime and corruption is much needed. The Commission will therefore launch a study to examine what is an increasingly disturbing and largely unexplored phenomenon