Organised Crime
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More than Cartels: Counting Mexico’s Crime Rings
The sheer difficulty of counting the criminal groups underscores the scale of the government’s challenge in protecting the public. Jane…
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In a ruined city on the Italian coast, the Nigerian mafia is muscling in on the old mob
Vincenzo Schiavone stands on the shoreline of Castel Volturno, gesturing over sparkling Mediterranean waters to the resort towns of the…
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El Chapo held ‘as much power as president’
Lopez Obrador, who took office in December 2018, rose to power with pledges to root out corruption in Mexico. The…
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Is the Netherlands becoming a narco-state?
“Sure we’re not Mexico. We don’t have 14,400 murders. But if you look at the infrastructure, the big money earned…
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Frustrated royal commissioner demands ‘please explain’ after Gobbo interview
The former gangland barrister and police informer’s interview with the ABC’s 7.30 program aired on Tuesday night. Tammy Mills The Age…
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Mormon Family Massacre Stuns Mexico, Laying Bare Government’s Helplessness
The women and their children were taking a drive along a familiar rural road in northern Mexico when the gunmen…
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41 men and boys found in refrigerated truck on a motorway in Greece
More than 40 men and boys have been found alive in a refrigerated truck on a motorway in northern Greece.…
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Cocaine use has become ‘almost like having a packet of Tayto with a pint’
“A gram costs about €50-€80. The average purity is 15-20 per cent, which is the highest it has been for…
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Troubled Waters along the Guyana-Venezuela Border
Guerrillas and criminal organisations control much of the flow. Bram Ebus ICG Their turf wars are already spilling over and…
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Why would people from China, the world’s second-biggest economy, risk their lives to enter the UK?
Little has been publicly revealed about who they were, though police said Thursday they believed the victims were all Chinese…
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Detectives focus in on Irish gang after 39 migrants froze to death in lorry
The bodies of the eight women and 31 men were on Thursday being transferred to a mortuary as police began…
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500 shackled children freed from third Islamic boarding school in north Nigeria
Officers leading a raid on the Mal Niga school in the city of Katsina late on Wednesday found more than…
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Alleged family day-care fraud more disciplined than outlaw motorcycle gang: police
“Every part of it from the bottom to the top was a falsehood,” said Acting Assistant Commissioner of State Crime…
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Malaysia’s Border Problems: Human Trafficking, Drugs, Illegal Immigrants, Piracy – Analysis
Terrorism, piracy, smuggling, narcotics trade, human trafficking, and illegal immigrants are all major problems that need to be tackled at…
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Former judge says Mokbel has grounds for release, accuses police of criminal behaviour
A former judge now representing Tony Mokbel pro bono has accused Victoria Police of criminal behaviour and says the drug…
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Mexico’s Hydra-headed Crime War
It may seem that Mexico’s crime war, which has left over 100,000 dead in its wake, could not get any worse.…
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