While the European powers disagree on how best to deal with the refugee crisis, organised crime groups are positioning themselves to continue exploiting displaced and vulnerable people. People smuggling is now a multibillion-dollar business, possibly more profitable than the trade in illicit drugs. Organised crime gangs profit from those fleeing the conflict in Syria by offering services that include falsifying documents and identification papers, bribing border guards and arranging the transportation of refugees out of the country and onwards towards Europe. Although some people smuggling networks are organised criminal structures, many are loosely-linked chains of individual criminals, which makes it difficult for law enforcement agencies to dismantle them.