OSINT RADAR

To disrupt migrant smuggling it is necessary to reinforce the capacity of law enforcement and judicial authorities to target the online and DaaS (Digital as a Service) activities of criminal groups and their use of modern technologies for communication and logistic purposes. Migrant smuggling generates large amounts of criminal profits, which is the main objective of such activities.

To counter these networks by preventing those profits from being used to reinforce other poly-criminal activities, financial investigation to trace criminal proceeds, seize and recover criminal assets is a key.

Finally, local and national initiatives need to be connected with the European legal and operative framework and specialized multi-agency teams should be established.

OSINT RADAR established a common operational relationship between judiciary agencies and investigative LEAs in Italy, Greece, Romania, Albania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Moldova and Germany to set-up OSINT centers covering Western Balkans and the Eastern EU borders, to disrupt illegal activities on migrant smuggling. The coordinated Osint centers, will address the following key topics for investigations on migrant smuggling:

• Social media monitoring;
• Reinforce the joint capacity of law enforcement and judicial authorities to target DaaS services, linked to the Internet Referral Unit of Europol;
• Specialised training will be provided to all LEAs and Judiciary agencies involved in the project on the use of investigative OSINT and ‘Trojan Horses’;
• Adapt the existing national procedures for preventing and investigating digital smuggling to the EU legal framework.