European Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA) 2011
May 22, 2011
August 05, 2011 | UNITED STATES – A Mexican drug cartel’s pressing need for ephedrine, the essential ingredient to make methamphetamine, brought a worldly group of businessmen together in Las Vegas in…
August 02, 2011 | MEXICO – A Mexican drug cartel hitman who has admitted to ordering the executions of 1,500 people in a three year reign or terror could be extradited to…
August 02, 2011 | UNITED STATES – MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard says its crews helped stop a semi-submersible craft filled with $180 million of cocaine in the western Caribbean. According…
July 30, 2011 | UNITED STATES – He lives with his mother and works for a baking supply company. But Domenico Cefalu, 64, has now reportedly become the new boss of the…
July 29, 2011 | MEXICO – Why were drug smugglers’ cocaine shipments being seized all over the U.S.? The boss in Mexico was demanding answers. He had no idea he was being…
July 28, 2011 | AUSTRALIA – HELLS Angels bike boss, Samir Jouayde, was arrested today two weeks after walking down the aisle to get married. Today he is behind bars after being…
July 28, 2011 | UNITED STATES – A Brooklyn judge yesterday shot down a cancer-stricken mob hit man’s desperate plea for early release from prison so he can get on a list…
Crossing the line: the consequences of police corruption »
August 05, 2011 | When institutions tasked with protecting our rights and preventing corruption do not act with integrity, it is citizens that ultimately suffer. Allegations of police corruption are central to the recent, high-profile UK phone-hacking…
COMMENT: Women among hashish army, and war criminals »
July 28, 2011 | AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN – Thousands of men, women and children are begging on behalf of underground mafia groups. Organised and professional criminal gangs in big cities collect millions in Afghan currency from across the…
News
Crook Adams is back in prison »
August 12, 2011 | ENGLAND – FEARED crime boss Terry Adams, once dubbed Britain’s Tony Soprano, was back behind bars last night. Adams,…
Standen: The Inside Man »
August 12, 2011 | AUSTRALIA – The story behind the police investigation that brought down Mark Standen, one of Australia’s top crime fighting…
Reputed mob boss is called FBI informant »
August 12, 2011 | UNITED STATES – Mark Rossetti, a reputed Mafia leader who was indicted last year on state charges of running…
Duggan and the mobster »
August 12, 2011 | ENGLAND – A GANGSTER suspect shot dead by police was the nephew of a crime lord who hinted on…
Italy: ‘Most wanted’ Calabrian mafia fugitive arrested at southern hideout »
August 10, 2011 | ITALY – Reggio Calabria, 10 August- (AKI) – One of Italy’s most wanted mafia fugutives has been arrested near…
