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Fake products are huge business for European organized crime

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Fake products are huge business for European organized crime

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Brian Freeman

For organized crime groups, the business of counterfeiting and pirating legitimate products is booming. Europol, Europe’s top law enforcement agency,…


The Camorra and the garbage racket in the ‘Land of Fires’

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

This is a condensed version of a longer case study, “Organized Crime and Environmental Issues in Naples, Italy,” that will…


FBI director outlines threats from transnational organized crime

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

Editor’s note: On February, 5, 2020, Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, delivered a report to the…


Chinese Triads launder billions through Vancouver, buying luxury real estate, cars

Posted on May 31, 2019June 5, 2019 by Joe Henriod

The laundering scheme is so infamous that investigators call it the “Vancouver model.” The Triads, China’s organized crime syndicate, created…


European Union: Organized crime deemed ‘highest’ security risk, greater than terrorism

Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 by Jackie Apoyan

Many of Europe’s top police officers were in the Netherlands last week attending a high-level conference focused on doing a…


The world’s top five Mob bosses

Posted on November 12, 2018November 19, 2020 by Jackie Apoyan

There was a time when Mob bosses in the United States were household names, but not anymore. Consider the FBI’s…


The rise of cyber-rackets

Posted on March 28, 2017September 11, 2017 by Brenda Hengel

International organized crime groups are using technology in ever-more-sophisticated ways, according to the Serious and Organized Threat Assessment 2017 report…


Major Italian Mafia group churning up political controversy in Australia

Posted on July 23, 2015October 6, 2016 by Brenda Hengel

One of the major Italian Mafia organizations is deeply entrenched in the Australian underworld. Italy’s violent Calabrian Mafia group ‘Ndrangheta…


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