The Multidimensional Security School closes its 2024 activities with a lecture on organized crime

Speakers, from left to right: Lincoln Gakiya, Fabio Bechara, Leandro Piquet, and Marta Saad

The Multidimensional Security School held its closing ceremony for 2024 activities on December 10, in the Congregation Hall of the Institute of International Relations.

The conference "The Great Convergence: Organized Crime and Infiltration in Production Chains in Brazil," given by prosecutors Lincoln Gakiya and Fabio Bechara, members of the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime of the São Paulo State Public Prosecutor's Office and advisors to ESEM, featured comments by Professor Marta Saad of the USP Law School and deputy coordinator of ESEM.

Gakiya and Bechara analyzed the current situation of organized crime in Brazil, highlighting the process of convergence between legal and illegal markets and the infiltration of criminal organizations into the country's production chains. These phenomena are directly linked to new forms of money laundering and the capture of businesses in the transportation, civil construction, fuel, and private investment fund sectors, among others. According to Gakiya, “criminals are looking for a slice of the legal market to profit and leverage businesses with illicit money.”

The need to redefine the State's response strategies to the threat posed by organized crime and phenomena such as new technologies in the area of finance was also discussed. One of the responses suggested was to overcome the departmentalized work model and the difficulties of sharing data and information between agencies in the security and justice system.

After the lecture, the coordinator of the Multidimensional Security School, Professor Leandro Piquet Carneiro, thanked the funders of the initiatives carried out by ESEM in 2024: PMI Impact, CropLife Brasil, AB InBev Foundation, Fundação Brava, and FAPESP. The event saw the announcement of the creation of the program “Infiltration of Production Chains by Criminal Organizations in Brazil and the Americas,” which aims to develop research, workshops, courses, seminars, and policy briefs with recommendations for public policies against the threat posed by organized crime.