Posts Tagged ‘ Global ’

French prosecutors say a suspected mafia boss who had been among Italy's top 30 fugitives was handed over to Italian authorities after he failed in his appeal to stay in France. Court officers said  40-year-old Guiseppe Falsone was handed over Wednesday under high security. Falsone was arrested in June on a street in Marseille,...
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Following are two video reports detailing the growing drug problem that exists in Canada. The first created in 2009 and the last created February of this year. "Canada has become a major producer and shipper of methamphetamines and ecstasy," according to a United Nations report. Canada, which traditionally consumes a lot of cannabis and...
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A debate is raging in Spain following a proposal by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero calling for a ban in newspapers for ads for prostitution. Although prostitution is legal in Spain the industry nevertheless is dominated by organized crime which is engaged in coercive international human trafficking to keep its stables stocked:  "Yolanda...
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Following are stories and videos related to efforts made to fight organized crime on a global scale. The Sicilian mafia or Cosa Nostra is one of the strongest organized crime organizations in the world. Over the past two years, more and more people have been fighting back. Tens of thousands of people have marched...
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The Cuntrera and Caruana families originated from Siculiana, a small village on the south coast of Sicily in the province of Agrigento. They are relatives; and they inter-married. The Cuntrera-Caruana clan used to be armed guards for the local baron Agnello, who owned most of the village and the surrounding land. People in the...
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Italian police targeted Chinese gangs on Monday in Prato, a city near Florence in which they claim to have broken up multibillion euro money-laundering operations and seized illegal factories and other assets.With Italy’s Mafia entrenched in Sicily and the south, investigators say it is natural that Chinese criminal gangs move in to exploit niche...
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Italian officials stated one of the country's top 30 most wanted mobsters has been arrested in the south of France. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni in a statement says Giuseppe Falsone was arrested Friday in Marseille, had been a fugitive for over a decade and must serve a life sentence. Falsone is close to Bernardo...
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Following are videos related to Russian Organized Crime in the U.S. and it’s affects on the country, and if the stories contained in the video are to be believed, the security of the world. This will be an open page with video added as they become available.   // Share|
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Francesco Lena, the owner of the Abbazia Sant'Anastasia vineyard near Palermo, Sicily which has produced award-winning wines, has been arrested after investigators heard on wiretaps "mob bosses who described business links dating back to the 1970s with him." "Lena is suspected of investing money from the Madonia clan to nurture hundreds of acres of...
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Legambient, the Italian environmental group has released its annual report on the Mafia for 2009 identifying its rackets which impact the environment. Those include illegal waste dumping and animal exploitation involving "dogfighting, smuggling of endangered species, clandestine butchering and illegal horse races" The mafia's waste disposal and illegal dumping business in Italy continued to...
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