A Malaysian will be extradited by Thai police to the United States where he is wanted in connection with credit card fraud amounting to US$150 million (RM505 million).
Gooi Kok Seng, aka Delpiero, 44, is wanted by US authorities to face charges of illegal possession of a data access device, illegal dealing in a data access [...]

Tags: credit card fraud, crime syndicates, fraud gang, Malaysia, organised crime, United States

Colombia’s fight against the FARC increasingly focuses on cutting off the rebels’ funding from narco-trafficking, as police collect new information on the organisation’s drug trading structure.

Colombian police, in collaboration with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), are now focusing their efforts on the FARC’s seven drug kingpins, El Tiempo reported Monday.

Evidence found on the seized [...]

Tags: Colombia, drug cartels, Drug trafficking, FARC, Mafia, Money laundering

Renewed violence in Mexican cities bordering Texas has ignited fear among nearby residents, some of whom have turned to social media despite cartels’ efforts to limit information. In places such as Reynosa, where gunbattles were a regular occurrence last week, official confirmation of violence came days later.
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But on Twitter, reports of brazen gunbattles [...]

Tags: civil society, CNN, Drug trafficking, Mexico, organised crime, Reynosa, social media, social network, Twitter, YouTube

The OECD is planning to list tax offences as a form of money laundering, a move that could hit Switzerland hard, a Swiss newspaper reported overnight.
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Without citing its sources, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung said that if tax offences were reclassified in money laundering, lawyers, tax advisors, accountants and bankers who are implicated in such offences [...]

Tags: banking secrecy, France, Germany, Money laundering, OECD, Switzerland, tax offences, United States

As many as 40,000 women could enter South Africa to work as prostitutes during this year’s football World Cup, officials have warned. The host nation is tightening border controls ahead of a predicted influx of sex workers hoping to ply their trade with fans during the month-long tournament.
David Bayever, [...]

Tags: prostitution, South Africa, South Africa World Cup 2010, women trafficking

German courts have been dealing with an unusual problem. More than 100,000 tons of Italian trash were shipped to eastern Germany, saving a waste treatment plant from bankruptcy. But what could have been a solution to Naples’ notorious garbage crisis ran afoul of the law.
Plastic bags filled with garbage covered the [...]

Tags: camorra, Germany, illegal waste disposal, italy, Konrad Doruch, Lorenzo Miracle

Lately, Russia has been subjected to a real narcotics invasion. Russia’ law enforcement agencies confiscated 46 tons of drugs in 2009, a 20 percent increased compared to 2008. In fact, 90 percent of the drugs brought into the country illegally are of Afghan origin. The Russia-NATO Council will focus on drug [...]

Tags: Afghanistan, Drug trafficking, heroin, NATO, russia, USA

The Department for the Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has sent to court approx. 2,300 persons in 2009, in 760 cases, Chief Prosecutor of the Department, Codrut Olaru, on Friday announced.
He presented the body’s 2009 activity report, showing that DIICOT solved more than 7,000 cases, in which [...]

Tags: Cocaine, DIICOT, Drug trafficking, heroin, Romania

An increase in arms trafficking by drug smugglers is connected to terrorism and will spur security counter-measures, according to Algerian officials.
Security forces have seized seven machine guns and 12 automatic pistols from drug smugglers in the last three years, the chief of the judiciary police, Colonel Zeghida, said on Algeria’s Radio [...]

Tags: Algeria, Drug trafficking, trafficking of weapons

Corruption is widely regarded as one of the triggers of the Greek debt crisis threatening the euro common currency. A new study by Transparency International suggests that corruption is part of everyday life in Greece, and claims private households paid more than 780 million euros in bribes in 2009.
The Greeks paid [...]

Tags: Corruption, Greece