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26 July 2024
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Webinar | Maximizing Success in Investigations of Organized Crime

Organized criminal groups engage in a variety of illegal activities, including drug trafficking, extortion, money laundering, and weapons trafficking. What is concerning is that these groups often blend their illicit earnings with legitimate businesses, making it challenging for law enforcement to identify their activities and link them to specific individuals.

How can crime units tackle this challenge? As these individuals leave digital breadcrumbs about themselves, their networks, and their businesses, investigative teams can use this information to improve their chances of detecting and dismantling the operations of these criminal organizations.

This deep dive aims to equip law enforcement teams with strategies and tools to optimize the way they run investigations of persons of interest within organized groups by focusing on the real-world example of Arafat Abou-Chaker, who is allegedly linked to a mafia clan in Germany.

In this session, you will learn how to empower your team by answering the following questions:

  1. How can law enforcement effectively identify and track key individuals within organized groups and map out their involvement in criminal networks?
  2. What strategies can be employed to convert scarce digital indicators into successful investigatory outcomes?
  3. How can cyber-investigation teams improve their use of technology to enhance outcomes and gather solid digital evidence for legal proceedings?

Key takeaways:

  • 01:14 – How OSINT became part of any criminal case
  • 02:24 – Dismantling organized crime: From person of interest to corporate investigations
  • 03:28 – Gang-related offenses your team investigates
  • 06:18 – How crime units can leverage data to dismantle organized crime
  • 08:00 – What is Maltego and how it helps investigative teams
  • 12:55 – Deep dive: Mafia clans in Germany
  • 15:09 – Preliminary investigation with Maltego Search: Arafat Abou-Chaker
  • 22:00 – How to generate reports with preliminary findings in Maltego Search
  • 23:25 – How to leverage Maltego Data in Maltego Graph
  • 27:00 – In-depth investigation in Maltego Graph

About the Speaker

Daphnée Aguilar is a Criminologist with more than 10 years of experience as an Intelligence Officer. She specialized in developing actionable intelligence for identifying, preventing and neutralizing threats and risks from Transnational Organized Crime. Driven by the feminist movement, her last research was on the Effects of Gender and Racial Bias on Gender-Based Violence Policies. She considers herself a professional taco taster.