Jarred West recently joined Waal de Waal in a BusinessTech interview with Michael Avery, discussing how organised economic crime has expanded beyond counterfeit goods and smuggling. The interview explains that the illicit economy increasingly operates like organised business, with sophisticated supply chains, financing, and logistics.

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Examining systemic failures across intelligence, border control, and prosecution, the conversation highlights how disjointed efforts allow criminal syndicates to keep adapting. De Waal and West argue that closing these gaps requires an integrated defense; bringing together corporate leadership, law enforcement, SARS, regulatory bodies, and forensic specialists.