(CNN) The UK government is getting tough on dirty money.

The new Serious and Organised Crime, or SOC, strategy is set to be published Thursday and includes a pledge of £48 million ($61.3 million) for 2019/20 designed to target "illicit finance" that drives the networks behind organized crime.

The National Crime Agency, known as NCA and often dubbed Britain's version of the FBI, estimates 4,600 organized crime groups operate in the UK, using violence and intimidation as they prey on vulnerable members of society, "from victims of modern slavery and human trafficking to young people suffering sexual exploitation and abuse."

Ben Wallace, the UK's minister for security and economic crime, will speak in central London on Thursday morning to outline how the government's plan will build upon existing law enforcement capabilities.

"Sharp suits swan around the nation's capital, while all along they head up networks that covertly trade millions of pounds in financial transactions online. They profit from the hidden misery and suffering of others, and it is not just their victims, but all of us who suffer the consequences," Wallace is expected to say.

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