Word: crimes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fate. It is hard to imagine a family less likely to be involved in a political mafia killing from the former Soviet Union than Karen and Alison's. But as one of the officers involved in the case pointed out at the time, "We were suddenly dealing with crime and politics from a part of the world that, to be honest, none of us in the Metropolitan or Surrey police had ever heard of. We knew nothing about the wars or about the politics - we were frankly...
...world of global crime had arrived in Britain...
...Mumbai to Odessa and from South Africa to Canada, cities and countries that were never associated with the "classical" mafia in the postwar period have been swamped by syndicates shifting huge quantities of illicit goods and services around the world. "We have an exponential growth in serious and organized crime," said Commander Sharon Kerr, head of the specialist crime directorate of Britain's Metropolitan Police, at a conference in Liverpool earlier this year, "manifesting itself in all kinds of ways; from Chinese DVD sellers - which can involve murders, trafficking and kidnap - to Romanian gangs of bag snatchers using young children...
Kerr's examples of organized criminal activity in Britain represent the final retail link in a vast chain of production, distribution and sale of criminal goods that is every bit as entrepreneurial and growth-oriented as the most dynamic global corporations. There are now few major crimes which do not involve syndicates in several countries, usually in more than one continent. Israeli crime groups, for example, have for some time controlled the export of ecstasy tablets into the U.S. In a perfect example of globalization, a gang headquartered in Tel Aviv was able to mastermind the export of drugs manufactured...
...established in drugs, caviar, trafficked women and counterfeit cigarettes; the networks would bring to market anything that would sell. By the mid-1990s, the U.S. government had recognized that something pretty ugly was underway in the postcommunist world. Jon Winer, the architect of the Clinton Administration's anti-organized-crime strategy, traces its development. "In '93-'94 I started working in law enforcement, knowing that globalization was beginning to have an impact on a whole range of issues," he said. "The paradigm was El Salvador. After the war, people decided to use their arms caches to make money in criminal...