Assessing the threat of organised crime in Bulgaria

The project aims to develop an annual independent assessment of risks and threats of organised crime in Bulgaria. It will support the Ministry of Interior in preparing a comprehensive annual strategic threat assessment and will improve results in countering organized crime through enabling a more effective and based on independent evidence formulation of strategic and operative priorities and counter-measures. The project will support the Bulgarian contribution to the SOCTA report of Europol and its multiannual strategic plans.The assessment will be based on independent data collected through established methodologies already developed by European institutions, Member States best practices, as well as official data provided by state institutions working on countering organised crime. The project will use and complement the assessment methodologies developed within the BOCTA (Bulgarian Organised Crime Threat Assessment) joint project, in which the CID, the MoI, the Revenue Agency and the Customs Agency with the help of the British, Belgian a.Dutch police services have developed a methodology and the first independent assessment of the threat of organised crime in Bulgaria.Assessments of the following organised criminal activities will be carried out:(1)drug trafficking and proliferation, (2) trafficking in human beings (incl. domestic trafficking),(3)human smuggling,(4)cybercrime,(5)organised vehicle theft,(6)telephone fraud,(7)VAT fraud,(8)illicit trade in tobacco products,(9)illicit trade in petroleum products,(10)extortion racketeering and loansharking,(11)EU funds fraud,(12) illegal logging,(13) illegal trade with medicines a.(14) payment card fraud (skimming). Horizontal criminal activities such as money laundering and corruption will also be evaluated. On the basis of the assessment, trainings will be carried out of representatives of the target groups, including employees from the strategic analysis sectors of GDCOC, GDBP, GDNP, MoI and the Prosecution Office.

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