Overview

This is an advanced committee, it is recommended that delegates with experience compete in this committee.

Criminals, beware! The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is on the case. INTERPOL is an inter-governmental police agency dedicated to helping nations in their efforts to stop large scale international crimes, through facilitating international cooperation. INTERPOL creates the frameworks that will help facilitate international policework, such as sharing data, providing technical support and assisting in operations. INTERPOL’s work has assisted local police catch thousands of criminals and has helped bridge the inherent gap between jurisdiction zones for cases of extreme international crime that operates across borders.

 INTERPOL has a doozy of a case on their hands, as intelligence has learned of a dastardly criminal organization that has been facilitating international crimes for months. The Criminal Association for Burglary, Anarchy and Lawlessness (CABAL) has been acting as an Evil INTERPOL, coordinating strings of crime and selling the spoils on the black market by using the dark web. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to cripple the CABAL and their ability to facilitate crime, either through preventing the string of art thefts they are coordinating or by penetrating their anonymity on the dark web. It will take the combined brainpower of all the INTERPOL member-states to defeat this devious foe once and for all. 

Topic 1: Art Theft

Currently CABAL has overtaken the underground art market, stealing and selling priceless paintings, statues, drawings, and more at alarming rates. The Stolen Works of Art database is INTERPOL's main tool to tackle the traffic in cultural property, but the sheer scale and sophistication of CABAL’s operations have rendered this tool insufficient to stop CABAL’s underground trade roots and international looting. It’s up to INTERPOL to work together and find innovative ways to stop this growing string of thefts. 

Topic 2: The Dark Web

The dark web plays a crucial role in CABAL’s operation, providing a hidden marketplace for the stolen art they traffic. On these encrypted platforms, the criminal organization can sell priceless paintings, sculptures, and cultural artifacts anonymously, away from the prying eyes of traditional law enforcement. While their trade in stolen art continues to flourish, whispers from deep within the underground suggest that CABAL is tied to numerous other illicit activities that are carefully veiled from the public eye. These activities remain largely unnamed, shrouded in mystery, but their reach on the dark web is vast. INTERPOL’s task becomes even more complex as CABAL operates on multiple fronts hiding beneath the surface of the dark web. 

More information will be released in the coming months!