Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks

Project Information

FALCON

Grant agreement ID: 101121281

DOI

10.3030/101121281

Project closed

EC signature date 25 July 2023

Start date 1 September 2023

End date 31 August 2026

Funded under

• Civil Security for Society

Total cost

€ 5 080 455,00

EU contribution

€ 4 720 938,00

Coordinated by

EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLOGISTON
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Comprehensive report on the cost of corruption in the EU

Report on methodologies for measuring the impact of corruption, and on costs estimates in specific areas (e.g., public procurement)

Anti-corruption legislative measures and international policy landscape

Maps the practices, mechanisms, norms, and factors of the complexity of the anti-corruption legislative and policy processes at international level

Communication and dissemination plan and report

Communication and dissemination plan for the remaining duration of the project (updated yearly: M3, M14, M26)

FALCON framework architecture

Specifies the architecture of the overall technical framework of FALCON

Corruption data acquisition and analysis toolset (R1.0)

Report on the FALCON tools (1st release) for extraction of indicators from underlying data, anomaly detection, and trends analysis

Exploitation and business plan (v1)

Exploitation strategy and business opportunities (v1)

Risk assessment, investigation and decision support toolset (R1.0)

Report on the FALCON tools (1st release) for corruption risk assessment, investigation support, predictive analytics, visualization, decision support and intelligence update

Comprehensive list and definitions of corruption risk indicators

Reports state-of-the-art and innovative corruption risk indicators, containing a description of the corresponding measurable variables, to be implemented as S/W in WP4 and WP5

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

FALCON prototype R1.0

1st integrated prototype of FALCON’s S/W components and tools

Publications

Conference proceedings (5)

From Data to Evidence: The FALCON Dashboard for Digital Forensics in Border Corruption Cases

Author(s): Marco San Biagio, Jacopo Costa, Ernesto La Mattina
Published in: International Conference on the AI Revolution: Research, Ethics, and Society (AIR-RES), Las Vegas, April 13-15, 2026
Publisher: International Conference on the AI Revolution

Unveiling Dynamics and Patterns: A Comprehensive Analysis of Spreading Patterns and Similarities in Low-Labelled Ransomware Families

Author(s): Francesco Zola, Mikel Gorricho, Jon Ander Medina, Lander Segurola, Raul Orduna-Urrutia
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BLOCKCHAIN62396.2024.00041

Defending Network Intrusion Detection Systems Based on Graph Neural Networks Against Structural Adversarial Attacks

Author(s): Dimitri Galli, Andrea Venturi, Dario Stabili, Mauro Andreolini, Mirco Marchetti
Published in: 2025 23rd International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NCA67271.2025.00043

FALCON: A Data-driven Risk Assessment Tool for Enhancing Anti-Corruption Measures through Real-time Predictive Analytics

Author(s): Nikolaos Peppes, Theodoros Alexakis, Emmanouil Daskalakis, Konstantinos Demestichas, Evgenia Adamopoulou
Published in: RISE-SD 2024 Conference Proceedings Book (Online edition)
Publisher: Research and Innovation Symposium for European Security (RISE-SD)

Assessing the Impact of Sanctions in the Crypto Ecosystem: Effective Measures or Ineffective Deterrents?

Author(s): Francesco Zola, Jon Ander Medina, Raúl Orduna
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Computer Security. ESORICS 2024 International Workshops, 2025
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82349-7_20

Book chapters (3)

Approaches to AI Accountability and AI Compliance-by-Design for R&I Projects in Policing and Security: Lessons Learned from STARLIGHT

Author(s): Christopher Guiver, Helen Gibson
Published in: Security Informatics and Law Enforcement, Accountability for Artificial Intelligence in Policing and Security, 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-41284-3_11

ACRA: A Cutting-Edge Analytics Platform for Advanced Real-Time Corruption Risk Assessment and Investigation Prioritization

Author(s): Nikolaos Peppes, Emmanouil Daskalakis, Theodoros Alexakis, Evgenia Adamopoulou
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation, 2025
Publisher: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78380-7_15

A Data-driven Risk Assessment Tool for Enhancing Anti-Corruption Measures through Real-time Predictive Analytics

Author(s): Nikolaos Peppes, Emmanouil Daskalakis, Theodoros Alexakis and Evgenia Adamopoulou
Published in: Security Informatics and Law Enforcement
Publisher: Springer

Peer reviewed articles (6)

<b>The Evolution of Corruption and Crimes at Kapitan Andreevo Border Checkpoint: The Impact of EU Accession</b>

Author(s): Jacopo Costa, Claudia Baez Camargo, Noemi Jäger, Saba Kassa
Published in: Journal of Illicit Trade, Financial Crime, and Compliance, Issue 2, 2026, ISSN 3070-6122
Publisher: United Scholars Publishing
DOI: 10.65879/3070-6122.2026.2.03

AI-Driven Corruption Risk Indicator Detection: A Comparative Evaluation of Transformer-Based NLP Models in Unstructured Procurement Data

Author(s): Nikolaos Peppes, Theodoros Alexakis, Emmanouil Daskalakis, Evgenia Adamopoulou
Published in: Information, Issue 17, 2026, ISSN 2078-2489
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/INFO17040329

Conceptualizing the evolution of corruption: an empirical analysis from Italy

Author(s): Jacopo Costa, Claudia Baez Camargo
Published in: Trends in Organized Crime, 2026, ISSN 1084-4791
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S12117-025-09586-0

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Corruption Risk Detection in Public Procurement

Author(s): Nikolaos Peppes, Theodoros Alexakis, Emmanouil Daskalakis, Evgenia Adamopoulou
Published in: Electronics, Issue 15, 2026, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS15173890

A data-driven approach to measure money laundering risk and its relationship with corruption

Author(s): Michele Riccardi
Published in: Journal of Economic Criminology, Issue 10, 2025, ISSN 2949-7914
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JECONC.2025.100184

A Network‐Enhanced Supervised Learning Framework for Early Prediction of Corruption Risk Indicators in Public Procurement Data

Author(s): Kostas Loumponias, Andreas Kosmatopoulos, Foivos Katsetsiadis, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
Published in: Expert Systems, Issue 43, 2026, ISSN 0266-4720
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/EXSY.70465