Gold from the Amazon is dug by the poor, taxed by armed groups, laundered through a refining chokepoint, and sold into markets that cannot tell where it came from. Once it is refined, no routine assay can establish where it was mined.
Our predictive convergence system turns fragmented intelligence into systemic foresight: how criminal, political, and economic networks reorganize after a disruption.
MIS is a first-of-its-kind virtual museum dedicated to educating global communities on the harms and impacts to international security of crime convergence and illicit economies around the world.
Explore the connections between illicit economies, the communities they affect, and the systems that sustain them.
A Mexican diplomat is assassinated in London. Two museum founders follow the trail into a web of espionage and intrigue, and find The Umbra Circle: a secret network of politicians, financiers, and organized crime groups manipulating world systems for power and profit.
