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The main motive for organised crime is financial gain. Identifying and confiscating the profits of international criminal networks is therefore a top priority for law enforcement, and Europol has provided significant support in the field of asset recovery in recent years. This is a crucial mechanism for deterring criminal activity, and law enforcement agencies worldwide are investing great resources into asset recovery than ever before. <\/p>\n\n
This is what led to the establishment of Europol\u2019s European Economic and Financial Crime Centre (EFECC) by Executive Director Catherine De Bolle in 2020. While providing operational and analytical support to Member States and Europol\u2019s partners, EFECC is also primarily focused on tracing, identifying, and freezing criminal assets. This has proven to be invaluable in light of the growing complexity of investigating criminal networks, a development influenced by improvements in technology and growing instances of cross-border crime. The pandemic also illustrated that a key characteristic of criminal networks is their agility in adapting to and capitalising on changes in the environment in which they operate.<\/p>\n\n