European Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA) 2011
May 22, 2011
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…
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…
August 12, 2011 | ENGLAND – FEARED crime boss Terry Adams, once dubbed Britain’s Tony Soprano, was back behind bars last night. Adams,…
August 12, 2011 | AUSTRALIA – The story behind the police investigation that brought down Mark Standen, one of Australia’s top crime fighting…
August 12, 2011 | UNITED STATES – Mark Rossetti, a reputed Mafia leader who was indicted last year on state charges of running…
August 12, 2011 | ENGLAND – A GANGSTER suspect shot dead by police was the nephew of a crime lord who hinted on…
August 10, 2011 | ITALY – Reggio Calabria, 10 August- (AKI) – One of Italy’s most wanted mafia fugutives has been arrested near…
Louisville man ‘major player’ in nationwide crime syndicate, convicted
Mobster’s hidden treasure up for sale
WTXF’s Dave Schratwieser Breaks Philly Mob Bust
Cartels using Ariz. mountaintops to spy on cops
The FBI’s Lin DeVecchio and “The Grim Reaper”
Homicide Unit Searches For Body At Home Of Alleged Organized Crime Boss
Mob Talk: Inside The Russian Mafia
Drug Lords Celebrate the Drug War at the U.N.
Mexican cartels corrupting more US border officials?
I-Team Report: Mob Mania
Intelligence Report: Mobster who turned on Outfit
‘Baby Shacks’ Manocchio pleads not guilty
60 Minutes Presents: Gotti
Video: Salford fugitive arrested by armed police in Amsterdam
August 12, 2011 | ENGLAND – FEARED crime boss Terry Adams, once dubbed Britain’s Tony Soprano, was back behind bars last night. Adams, 56, was being held at a London police station to appear…
August 12, 2011 | ENGLAND – A GANGSTER suspect shot dead by police was the nephew of a crime lord who hinted on TV that he was responsible for 27 murders. Mark Duggan’s late…
August 12, 2011 | UNITED STATES – Mark Rossetti, a reputed Mafia leader who was indicted last year on state charges of running a sprawling criminal enterprise of drug trafficking, gambling, and loan sharking,…
August 09, 2011 | MEXICO – The U.S. government joined its Mexican counterpart in placing the Zetas at the top of its list of organized crime priorities last month. There are good reasons, however,…
August 10, 2011 | BRAZIL – A LOST tribe photographed for the first time this year has vanished after drug runners stormed their village. Traffickers armed with artillery and machine-guns burst into the settlement…
August 09, 2011 | One of the heralded lessons of Colombia’s fight against drug cartels is that fragmentation reduces violence. The vertical command structures of the famed Medellín and Cali cartels were legendary. Their…
August 12, 2011 | AUSTRALIA – The story behind the police investigation that brought down Mark Standen, one of Australia’s top crime fighting law enforcement officers. He was considered a crime busting untouchable, a…
August 10, 2011 | AUSTRALIA – Gangland widow Judy Moran has been sentenced to 26 years in jail for the public murder of her brother-in-law, Des “Tuppence” Moran. Given her ailing health, it is…
May 25, 2011 | SOMALIA – It’s a surreal sight in a war zone: two young lion cubs on a military base, frolicking like kittens, with the sound of mortar explosions and gunfire in…
May 19, 2011 | Nairobi — Drug lords and money launderers were possible financiers of terrorism activities in East Africa, Attorney-General Amos Wako said on Wednesday. Mr Wako said Kenya was now using anti-money…