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SOC ACE October 2026 Newsletter
In this issue, Olivia Allison joins RUSI’s Suspicious Transaction Report podcast to discuss financing war in the grey zone, and Cathy Haenlein speaks to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland about the Kinahan extradition. Professor Heather Marquette and Matthew Redhead explore why states outsource covert tasks to criminals, and we share SOC ACE’s evidence to the UK Parliament’s Russia inquiry. We also introduce two new projects and new research from the Myanmar–China borderlands, and look ahead to SOC ACE’s participation at #OC24 and the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) 2026 in Punta Cana.
SOC ACE September 2026 Newsletter
This month’s bulletin brings together new SOC ACE research on the changing relationship between states and organised crime, the political economies that sustain illicit activity, and the uneven development of conflict-affected borderlands.
We also explore scam compounds in the China–Myanmar borderlands, Russian war-related illicit trade across the Black Sea and the paramilitary–organised crime nexus in war-to-peace transitions. Alongside new publications, SOC ACE researchers are contributing to policy and academic discussions on state threats, sanctions evasion, corruption and hybrid warfare, with upcoming events in Krakow and Manchester.