Recital 3

(3) Criminal organisations usually reinvest part of their profits from criminal activities to create a financial base enabling them to continue such activities. In addition, criminal organisations often resort to violence, threats, intimidation or corruption in order to acquire control of companies, obtain concessions, authorisations, tenders or grants, achieve illicit profits or advantages, or infiltrate key infrastructures such as logistic hubs. Such organisations therefore adversely affect the freedom of competition, or influence decisions of public authorities, threatening the rule of law and democracy. Criminal organisations have become worldwide economic operators with entrepreneurial objectives. Depriving criminals of illicit profits is essential in order to disrupt their activities and to prevent them from infiltrating legitimate economies.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.