Also known as: Global Organized Crime Index · 2025 Global Organized Crime Index
Global Organised Crime Index — organization that publishes reports assessing organized crime risks and activities in Ghana, including illegal fishing, drug trafficking, financial crimes, and enforcement gaps.
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A rise in cyber-dependent crimes is undermining Ghana’s growing digital sector and slowing technology adoption, according to the Global Organised Crime Index. …
Global Organised Crime Index says cybercrime is undermining Ghana’s digital sectorJoy Online
Financial crimes are widespread across key sectors of Ghana’s economy, with fraud and tax evasion affecting banking, international trade, real estate and major commodity industries, according to the Global Organised Crime Index. …
Global Organised Crime Index says fraud and tax evasion are widespread across Ghana’s economyJoy Online
Threats against journalists have contributed to reduced media coverage of organised crime, particularly the cocaine trade, in Ghana, according to the Global Organised Crime Index. …
Threats to journalists limit coverage of cocaine trade in Ghana – Global Organised Crime IndexJoy Online
The Global Organised Crime Index has identified Chinese long-distance trawlers as the principal culprits in illegal fishing contributing to the severe depletion of Ghana’s fish stocks. …
Global Organized Crime Index links Chinese trawlers to depletion of Ghana’s fish stocksDaily Guide
The seized cocaine Ghana has emerged as both a transit and destination country for heroin trafficking, with most of the drug originating from Afghanistan, according to the 2025 Global Organized Crime Index. …
Ghana Emerges As Heroin Transit Hub – ReportJoy Online
Ghana’s efforts to combat money laundering face significant enforcement gaps, including a shortage of trained investigators and prosecutors, according to the Global Organised Crime Index. …
Shortage of trained investigators and prosecutors hampers Ghana’s fight against money laundering – ReportJoy Online
The Global Organised Crime Index has identified non-profit organisations in Ghana as presenting potential risks for money laundering and terrorist financing, amid gaps in the enforcement of financial crime laws. …
Report flags potential money laundering, terrorist financing risks among Ghana’s NGOsJoy Online
The United Kingdom has become the principal destination for Ghana’s illicit cannabis exports, according to findings in the Global Organised Crime Index. …
UK identified as leading destination for Ghana’s illicit cannabis exports – ReportJoy Online
The Global Organised Crime Index has highlighted allegations that individuals involved in Ghana’s drug trade have financed political parties, while money linked to the illicit market has helped fund the country’s housing boom. …
Drug money allegedly finances Ghana’s political parties and real estate – Global Organised Crime IndexJoy Online
… Ntim Fordjour said the decision to block the inquiry corroborates concerns raised in the 2025 Global Organised Crime Index, which suggests that political protection may help explain a decline in visible cocaine trafficking in Ghana. …
Blocking cocaine probe lends weight to claims of political protection for traffickers – Assin South MPThe Global Organised Crime Index reports that Ghana has experienced a rise in cyber-dependent crimes affecting both businesses and individuals, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hindered technology adoption and the growth of the digital sector. Criminal groups are using malware, botnet and crypto-miner attacks to steal sensitive data and money, hampering economic growth.
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The Global Organised Crime Index reports that Ghana has experienced a rise in cyber-dependent crimes affecting both businesses and individuals, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hindered technology adoption and the growth of the digital sector. Criminal groups are using malware, botnet and crypto-miner attacks to steal sensitive data and money, hampering economic growth.
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The Global Organised Crime Index reports that financial crimes including fraud and tax evasion are pervasive in Ghana's banking, import/export, real estate, and commodity sectors such as fishing, gold and cocoa, causing substantial losses to the state. The assessment also documents online Ponzi schemes, banking fraud, and charges against high-profile individuals for breach of trust and bribery.
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According to the Global Organised Crime Index, threats against journalists have led to reduced media coverage of organised crime, particularly the cocaine trade, in Ghana. The report notes that intimidation of journalists investigating sensitive subjects including drug trafficking, political vigilantism and corruption is affecting scrutiny of these issues, despite Ghana's guarantees of media pluralism and independence.
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The Global Organised Crime Index has identified Chinese long-distance trawlers as the principal culprits in illegal fishing that has severely depleted Ghana's fish stocks, and notes that Ghanaian-owned front companies have enabled Chinese industrial vessels to sail under the Ghanaian flag to evade fishing restrictions.
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According to the 2025 Global Organized Crime Index, Ghana has emerged as both a transit and destination country for heroin trafficking, with the drug primarily originating from Afghanistan, imported by East African nationals, and repackaged for export to the United States by Ghanaian nationals working with Nigerian counterparts. The report notes that heroin distribution has expanded from urban centres of Accra and Tema to rural areas in northern Ghana, and raises concerns about corrupt officials facilitating movement through seaports and airports.
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Ghana faces significant enforcement gaps in combating money laundering, including a shortage of trained investigators and prosecutors and an absence of certified financial crime investigators specialized in asset forfeiture, according to the Global Organised Crime Index. Money laundering in Ghana is linked to narcotics trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking, environmental crimes, fraud, corruption, and romance scams, with criminals increasingly using digital currencies and other digital channels to move illicit funds.
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The Global Organised Crime Index has identified non-profit organisations in Ghana as presenting potential risks for money laundering and terrorist financing, citing gaps in enforcement of financial crime laws and shortages of trained investigators and prosecutors.
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According to the Global Organised Crime Index, the UK is the primary destination for Ghana's illicit cannabis exports, with the country emerging as a prominent cannabis cultivation area in Africa driven by international demand for high-THC cannabis. The report attributes expanding cultivation partly to misunderstanding of Ghana's legal framework for cannabis use in health and industrial purposes.
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The Global Organised Crime Index reports allegations that drug trade actors have financed Ghana's political parties and funded the country's housing boom, with criminal networks exerting influence on democratic processes primarily through financial pressure rather than violence.
30 September 2026 · Joy Online →
Parliament's Speaker Alban Bagbin ruled inadmissible a Minority motion seeking an ad hoc committee to investigate how major cocaine consignments were processed and exported from Ghana. The Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee says the Speaker's decision lends weight to concerns about political protection for drug traffickers, citing the 2025 Global Organised Crime Index report which raises questions about falling seizures and reduced media coverage potentially concealing continued trafficking activity.
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