INTERPOL
Valdecy Urquiza
Secretary General of INTERPOL
Valdecy Urquiza:
Worldwide losses related to financial fraud in 2025 alone have been estimated at USD 442 billion - and our Global Financial Fraud Assessment shows that the threat is accelerating.
We need to target the main criminal actors, make fraud harder to commit and make it less profitable.
That’s why the support announced at the GlobalFraudSummit today by the UK’s Fraud Minister Lord Hanson for INTERPOL’s Shadow Storm Task Force is so critical.
This initiative will bring together all the key links in the various chains to streamline intelligence, identify suspects, disrupt financial flows and dismantle criminal networks.
INTERPOL:
Fraud is no longer a peripheral threat, it is at the centre of polycriminality, intersecting with organized crime, human trafficking and cybercrime.
The 2026 INTERPOL Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment, released today at the GlobalFraudSummit, highlights:
-The increased use of AI to plan and execute fraud campaigns
-The systematic integration of sextortion into scams
-The use of specialized money laundering groups
-The globalization of trafficking-fuelled scam centres
The good news? Law enforcement authorities are collaborating more effectively.
Read more: interpol.int
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