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TORONTO - The discovery of a series of suspicious packages inside the Amazing Party and Costume Store has now prompted an investigation by the organized-crime unit and raised questions as to why a business as harmless as selling Halloween costumes has become the target of a not-so-harmless act. (Toronto Star) MORE: Owner lashes out Reward offered
The global war on drugs has failed with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world, argues a new report. (AP) REPORT: Global Commission on Drug Policy .pdf Drug war unwinnable White House defends war on drugs War on drugs, on drugs US drug kingpin list Additions to kingpin list |
Michael Chamas, the alleged “banker” for a Mohawk-based marijuana smuggling ring, is a wanted man in Canada, but recent RCMP efforts to nab him internationally haven’t slowed his globe-trotting ways. Chamas travelled from Dubai to Mexico City this week to shore up his bid to buy Mexicana. (APTN) PREVIOUS: APTN - Operation Cancun
MONTREAL - A criminal organization specializing in tobacco smuggling in Quebec had become so efficient that it could reap profits of $ 2.5M in a few months, in addition to depriving the state of $6M in tax revenues. (Cyberpresse) MORE: Arrests in smuggling ring |
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NEW YORK - A New York City crackdown on suspects allegedly involved in forged credit cards and identity theft led authorities to a $13M global crime ring, (CNN) MORE: Fraud ring Crime ring was sweet on Apple
MONTREAL - Ronald Chicoine pleaded guilty in 2008 to laundering millions of dollars for organized crime figures, and saw assets worth nearly $50M seized by authorities. (CTV)
NEW YORK - The feds secretly recorded Armen Kazarian's often-profane threats by tapping his phone while investigating a massive, $163M Medicare fraud scheme that led to charges against him and more than 70 others last year. (NY Post) PREVIOUS: OC members charged Vor = Thief in law
WINNIPEG - If you wanted to buy a car, Nello Chiapetta was the man who ironed out your financing. Court documents made public allege the former Eastwood Truck and Toy Centre finance manager was also the go-to guy for city gangsters looking to launder their ill-gotten gains. (QMI) MORE: Associate pleads guilty
CALGARY - His business card dubs Dung Kien Luong “manager” of Leung Ky Meat and Seafood, but authorities allege he is much more than an employee of the Forest Lawn butcher shop. (Calgary Herald)
VANCOUVER - Officials in Vancouver have seized more than 6 tonnes of a chemical suspected to be a precursor to methamphetamine after an investigation that began with a container ship full of counterfeit running shoes. (CTV)
Human trafficking report OTTAWA - The RCMP, in its first expansive assessment of trafficking in humans, revealed that there are currently 36 cases before the criminal courts in Canada and that most victims are Canadian citizens or permanent residents who are not necessarily recruited from overseas. REPORT: Human trafficking in Canada Majority of trafficking for sex trade Teen prostitution ring
No surprise CALGARY - Don't be shocked Calgary police are investigating an apparent attempt by organized crime to infiltrate the justice system. MORE: Shock to the system Top cop warns of corruption Bad fellas have edge
LONDON - Colin Gunn, an underworld godfather who ordered the execution of two grandparents, has been able to correspond freely with up to 565 “friends” on the social networking site for the past two months. (Times online) PREVIOUS: Jailed for life |
TRINIDAD - PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar said that the alleged plot to assassinate her and other cabinet ministers was linked to the fight against criminals. (Trinidad Guardian) MORE: Act of treason Assassination plot
CALGARY - Potentially thousands of Canadian online poker players have been cheated by troubled gaming site Full Tilt Poker out of their holdings, alleges a class-action lawsuit. (QMI) MORE: Gambling Commission applies brakes Full Tilt Poker Full Tilt Poker founders
Recession driving truckers into OC In these hard economic times, more honest truck drivers are being lured into carrying illegal goods, and then gradually trapped in the lifestyle. (Tyee) REPORT: Assessment of OC in the trucking industry .pdf OC hijacking trucking industry
LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement officials unsealed indictments naming nearly 100 people who they allege are gangsters and members of the notorious Mexican Mafia, who through violence and control of Orange County jails exerted their influence over Latino gangs on the streets. (Orange County Register)
TORONTO - Police have arrested 39 people and laid 192 charges, including attempted murder and firearm trafficking, as part of an organized crime investigation. (Toronto Star)
BANGKOK - Political instability in military-ruled Myanmar (Burma) has helped make it the region’s prime source of methamphetamine pills, according to a UNs’ report on the illicit drug trade. (AP) REPORT: Asia and the Pacific drugs .pdf UNODC
ROME - Chinese gangs have exploited a gap in Italy's crime world, expanding into northern and central cities while the traditional mafia concentrates on the country's south. (Telegraph UK)
MONTREAL - Police say they've dismantled a Canadian money-laundering ring that used dummy international companies to recycle illicit cash. Four people were arrested as officers swooped down on a number of targets in the Montreal area - including Ronald Chicoine, 57, the owner of Speedo Financial Corporation and the scheme's alleged mastermind. (CTV) MORE: Fraud ring
It was 1994 - the Year of the Dog - and Frank Ma was in a quandary. Mr. Ma, a 40-year-old crime boss, had just arranged the murder of his longtime heroin supplier, who, on his orders, had been gunned down in a Los Angeles parking lot. He had recently found a new supplier: Golo Keung, a member of the Big Circle Boys, one of Hong Kong’s largest criminal triads. (NY Times) |
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HAGUE - Organized crime is changing and becoming increasingly diverse in its methods, group structures, and impact on society, reveals Europol’s 2011 Organized Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA). (Europol) |
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LONDON - 4 jockeys and 2 licensed owners face lengthy bans from racing after being convicted of corruption offences in a landmark prosecution by the British Horseracing Authority. (Telegraph UK) |
Pakistan cricket fixing controversy World of cash-stuffed envelopes Qatar accused of buying 2022 Cup |
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Host country voting system changed 'FIFA not likely to purge itself Only candidate left re-elected |
Convicted match-fixer ran empire FIFA corruption in bidding process Executive members of FIFA accused FIFA pledges match-fixing crackdown |
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LOS ANGELES - James “Whitey” Bulger’s image seemed set in stone. He was a Boston “Southie,” a street punk who climbed out of the projects on a ladder of crime. (Toronto Star) |
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Ex FBI agent says witness was killed Lawsuits vs. FBI to open in Boston The search for 'Whitey' Bulger |
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KINGSTON - The capture of Coke, who is wanted by US authorities to answer drug-trafficking and gun-running charges, comes just short of a month after he escaped from his former stronghold of Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston. (Jamaica Observer) |
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Legislation targets criminal groups WINNIPEG - Attorney General Andrew Swan introduced legislation that will create a process to put "key criminal organizations" on a list so that Crown prosecutors don't have to repeatedly prove to a judge a gang like the Hells Angels is a criminal organization. (Winnipeg Free Press) |
SINGAPORE - Deputy US Atty. Gen. David Ogden, speaking at the 78th general assembly of the global police agency Interpol, told delegates that they needed to act more forcefully to combat transnational organized crime groups whose proceeds now comprise up to 15% of the global gross domestic product. (LA Times) |
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BUENOS AIRES - Colombian beauty queen has been arrested in Argentina on charges of leading a drug trafficking ring. Angie Sanclemente Valencia, 31, is accused of persuading young women to smuggle cocaine from Argentina to Europe via Mexico. (BBC) PREVIOUS: Drug gang Angie Sanclemente Valencia |
THUNDER BAY - Police searching a home in northern Ontario have literally uncovered a whopping $1.2M in cash buried outside. The enormous sum of money in denominations of $20 and higher was found buried 20 to 25 centimetres underground in a large Tupperware-like container. (CP) MORE: Police seize cash |
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TORONTO - California resident Van Thu Tran, 45, pleaded guilty in an American court to scamming millions of dollars from Casino Rama near Orillia, Ont., and 28 other gaming resorts across Canada and the US. (QMI) PREVIOUS: Tran Organization cheating scam |
Criminal gangs in the USA have swelled to an estimated 1M members responsible for up to 80% of crimes in communities across the nation, according to a gang threat assessment compiled by federal officials. (USA Today) REPORT: National gang threat assessment 2009 .pdf |
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Vehicles stolen in GTA shipped around the world TORONTO - Two factors have exacerbated the problem: Canadian border officials don't routinely check shipping containers to see if the cars inside are stolen, and police auto theft squads have weakened over time. (Toronto Star) MORE: Top 10 stolen vehicles Motor vehicle theft in Canada |
TORONTO - A Brampton man who's considered a modern-day Robin Hood has been convicted in the US of leading a drug smuggling ring that trucked at least 36,000 kilos of cocaine from California to Toronto. (Sun Media) MORE: Convictions in drug case 'Biggest there is' Bakersfield drug bust Drug dealers with a big heart |
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WASHINGTON - Organized crime gangs are exploiting a new target for illegal profit: Medicare and Medicaid. Experienced in running drug, prostitution and gambling rings, crime groups of various ethnicities and nationalities are learning it's safer and potentially more profitable to file fraudulent claims with the federal Medicare program and state-run Medicaid plans. (CNN) |
Security crackdown OTTAWA - The government is launching a security crackdown on more than 100,000 workers at Canada's airports and marine ports. The initiative comes through a new deal signed by the federal Transport Department and the RCMP to weed out organized-crime operatives from restricted areas. (CanWest) MORE: RCMP study reveals OC web Project Spawn .pdf |
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LONDON - Seven people have been arrested and 27 addresses raided over a suspected Ł38M fraud involving the trade of carbon credits to avoid paying value-added tax (VAT). (Telegraph UK) |
Breaking up Government and Corporate 'Organized Crime' As noted in the "Godfather" movie, one man with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. (Hernando Today) |
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WASHINGTON - The 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report highlights the growth of methamphetamine “superlabs” throughout the country, particularly in BC and Ontario. The report says Canada has become the No. 1 source of ecstasy south of the border. (CP) REPORT: 2009 INCSR report |
NEW YORK - Nicholas Cosmo, founder of Agape World Inc in Hauppauge, New York, swindled investors out of more than $370 million and used the money to pay for limousines, fund a baseball league and pay off a restitution order from an earlier fraud. (Bloomberg) MORE: Cosmo owed money to the Mob Cosmo gambled it away |
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UN debates drug policy's impact VIENNA - The UN's Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) is meeting in Vienna to review the effectiveness of drug control over the past decade. Critics say the policies are flawed, contributing to organized crime, violence and instability in the developing world. But the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says there has been progress. It says the number of drug users, about 5% of the world's population, has stabilized over the past few years. (BBC) |
OTTAWA - Provincial governments were spared the prospect of returning millions of dollars in seized property when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Crown has the power to confiscate the proceeds of crime. (CanWest) JUDGMENT: 2009 SCC 19 Feds seize $281.4M in assets from crooks Seized property directorate grows Ontario criminals pay hefty price BC hits criminals in the wallet Grower forfeits home |
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$1M ransom paid in kidnap case VANCOUVER - Three people were abducted and held for four weeks in 2006 and ransom payments totalling more than $1 million were made in Vancouver, Toronto and China in a case going to a pretrial hearing. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Rescue ended month in captivity |
ATHENS - Kidnappers released an ailing Greek shipping magnate eight days after abducting him at gunpoint near his home, police said. The 74-year-old tycoon, Pericles Panagopoulos, was freed hours after his family paid the kidnappers a multi-million dollar ransom, police said. (CNN) |
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OTTAWA - Parliamentarians are considering whether the Conservative government should create a list of banned criminal organizations - starting with the Hells Angels - just as terrorist organizations are officially blacklisted. (CanWest) |
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VICTORIA - CBC News has obtained documents that show 33 cases of suspected loan sharking were reported around BC's casinos in a two-and-a-half-year period from 2002 to 2004. The documents show that out of 33 cases of suspected loan sharking, police were called only three times. (CBC) Loan sharks feeding at River Rock |
Life & death of 'Big Sister' Betty Suspected money laundering at casinos Money launderers suspected of using casino slots Legacy of husband's casino debts Casino loophole lets criminals launder cash Richmond casino is a crime magnet |
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HONG KONG - Police have charged nine men over the killing of a Hong Kong triad boss who was hacked to death by suspected rival gang members. (AFP) |
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ST HELIER - Drugs baron Curtis Warren who is believed to have amassed a fortune of Ł300M was convicted of trying to smuggle Ł1M worth of cannabis. (Daily Mail) Plan to target organized crime SOCA annual report 2008/09 .pdf Getting Organized .pdf |
Comprehensive approach to tackling serious OC Police create map of criminal gangs Britain's 'Godfather' behind bars Nottingham's 'godfather of crime' |
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CONAKRY - Guinea's military leaders have uncovered a plot to overthrow the government in the poor, unstable West African nation, state radio reported. It said in a report Saturday night that military ruler Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara put the army on high alert after learning of a planned attack from fighters in neighboring Guinea-Bissau and Liberia. It said the coup plot appears to be backlash from drug traffickers deposed by Camara when he seized power in December. (AP) |
Guinea on alert for 'attack plot' by cartels Crime lords 'ruining West Africa' Organized crime plundering West Africa W Africa transit for $1B in cocaine |
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HOUSTON - Thi Phoung Mai Le, 43, of Ottawa, Ontario, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for her role in an international narcotics money laundering scheme. (BackgroundNow) PREVIOUS: Convicted of money laundering |
Why gangs took over shoplifting Shoplifting and retail losses represent a growing crime and one where sophisticated and organized criminal rings have joined the smaller players in targeting everything from Oil of Olay to baby formula to widescreen TVs. (Vancouver Sun) MORE: The war on retail crime |
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TORONTO - A drug dealer wounded in a botched Harbourfront transaction once masterminded America's largest Ecstasy smuggling ring, which employed naive Hasidic Jews as couriers. (Toronto Star) PREVIOUS: Dealer's reduced term Man shot at Harbour Castle former drug dealer 3 arrested in hotel shooting Holy Rollers |
TORONTO - Sataya Vongkosy, 32, faces 180 charges after the massive police bust, which targeted an illicit drugs-for-guns operation that spanned much of Southern Ontario and reached into the US. (Toronto Star) MORE: Project Blackhawk results in more than 440 charges Charges after guns, drugs blitz 'This is a big deal' |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE - A Canadian woman abducted last week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been released and is in good condition, United Nations Police have confirmed. (CTV) |
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Yakuza swaps charity for reconstruction TOKYO - In the aftermath of the devastating March tsunami, Japan's underworld made a rare display of philanthropy, handing out emergency supplies to survivors, sometimes days before aid agencies arrived. Three months later, however, the yakuza appears to have dispensed with largesse and is instead hoping to cash in on the daunting clean-up effort in dozens of ruined towns and villages. (Guardian UK) |
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Police raid two currency exchanges VANCOUVER - Two Langley downtown currency exchanges were raided by heavily armed police resulting in four arrests and the seizure of large amounts of cash. Police raided the Capital Forex storefront at 5560 204 St. and also the Global Tourist Centre Currency Exchange located at unit 106, 20505 Fraser Hwy. Both businesses are apparently owned or managed by Robin Rathor, who could not be reached for comment. (Langley Advance) MORE: Mounties accuse 4 of money laundering Cash houses under fire |
VANCOUVER - Growing evidence suggests that Canada’s Pacific fishing fleet is also being used to facilitate other criminal activities, including the transport of drugs and illegal firearms by outlawed biker gangs and former Soviet Union crime syndicates, according to the National Study of Crime in the Australian Fishing Industry. (Asian Pacific Press) PREVIOUS: Australian Institute of Criminology Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing |
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Police seize arsenal in traffic stop AJAX - A Montreal man who police say was caught driving an SUV loaded with guns, drugs, lab equipment and a grenade is facing 64 charges after being pulled over in Ajax, Ont. Police say Hanna Anastas, 34, was driving a vehicle matching the description of one wanted by police. (CanWest) |
SEATTLE - A Chilliwack trucker faces at least five years - and possibly 40 years - in jail for conspiracy to smuggle marijuana into the US. A jury in US federal court in Seattle deliberated for a day-and-a-half following a week-long trial before convicting Corey Wirsz, 26. (Vancouver Province) MORE: Trucker guilty of smuggling pot |
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The Conservatives are denying a report that Canadian journalist Mellissa Fung was released by her Afghan captors in a swap for two Taliban leaders. She was released after a month of negotiations between CBC staff, Canadian and Afghan officials and her captors. (CTV) |
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ISRAEL - This is the fifth and final installment in a five-part series about organized crime in Israel. (Tablet) |
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MONTREAL - Pierre Boivin, 59, a specialist in financial law, found himself on the opposite side of the prisoner's dock when Quebec Court Judge Paul Chevalier ruled in a case that had been stalled for years by an attempt by the lawyer to withdraw the guilty plea he entered in September 2005, along with two co-accused. (Montreal Gazette) |
VANCOUVER - Zhen Ai Xu, otherwise known as Pinky, gets to keep her silver BMW SUV. But she has had to give up to the BC government one of her houses,. (Vancouver Province) PREVIOUS: Warrant reveals pimp's life Top madam earned millions Police bust Pinky's places |
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Government and organized crime: History of co-existence MOSCOW - A government is the organization which is the governing authority of a political unit, also the ruling power in a political society, and the apparatus through which a governing body functions and exercises authority. Government have the authority to make laws, to arbitrate disputes, to issue administrative decisions, and a monopoly in authorizing force. (Pravda) |
WASHINGTON - Launching a campaign against such international criminals, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said they were more adaptable and sophisticated than La Cosa Nostra and other syndicates the US government set out to defeat half a century ago. (Reuters) MORE: Criminals target energy, financial markets AG targeting international organized crime Center for Strategic and International Studies |
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The National Intelligence Council released its latest study on the world’s future last week, Global Trends 2025. Buried on page 33 was this tantalizing tidbit: “Crime could be the gravest threat inside Europe as Eurasian transnational organizations become more powerful and broaden their scope. One or more governments in Eastern or Central Europe could fall prey to their domination.” (Center for Public Integrity) |
EU strips millions from Bulgaria EU reports on Bulgaria & Romania EU subsidies 'looted' by Bulgarian mafia The morphing of organized crime Crime groups 'buy' politicians |
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DUBLIN - A luxury yacht packed with cocaine worth more than half a billion pounds was towed ashore under armed guard today after it was seized off the Irish coast (Guardian UK) |
How drug ship was tailed from Caribbean to Cork British criminals believed to be behind cocaine |
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The image of former Toronto resident has been splashed throughout the Italian media over the past 24 hours as American authorities announced one of the largest international drug busts in history. (Toronto Star) |
175 arrested in crackdown on Mexico's Gulf Cartel Scores held in global drug bust |
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LOS ANGELES - When the coroner put Jack Whalen's body on a slab, it measured 72 inches, just 6 feet. For years, people had described him as 6-foot-2 or 6-4. But "the Enforcer" was smaller in death than life. (Los Angeles Times) |
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Ex-Soviet crime ring in Toronto TORONTO - Crime rings of former Eastern European mobsters use Toronto as a base for local and international law-breaking, including kidnapping, extortion and identity theft, say organized crime experts. . (Toronto Star) |
Crime boss killed by drug gang DUBLIN - Murdered gangland figure Paddy Doyle was shot dead in Spain after falling foul of an international drugs gang. (Independent) PREVIOUS: Gang chief shot dead in Costa ambush |
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MONTREAL - Organized criminals in Canada are going green, turning to environmental crime as an increasingly lucrative way to raise money. A report released yesterday by Criminal Intelligence Service Canada says crime networks have developed underground markets for electronic waste and scarce natural resources. (CP) |
CSIS 2008 report on Organized Crime Police 'not on top of organized crime' BC gangs control meth sales, crime report says Information is crime's new opiate |
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VANCOUVER - Drug labs are becoming factories, according to RCMP Inspector Brian Cantera who says they're now being defined as "super labs". . (News 1130) |
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WASHINGTON - The US has placed a $100,000 bounty on the head of suspected Russian crime boss Semion Mogilevich, the alleged mastermind of the YBM Magnex scandal that defrauded investors in the Canadian company out of an estimated $650M and undermined confidence in Canadian stock markets. (National Post) Only criminals with any code of conduct are the Russian mafia |
Russian Mafia The Russian Mafia Russian banker's killer 'found' Putin to rescue Deripaska over $2.5B loan Russian Central Banker assassinated Dozens 'sickened' in Russian gas attack |
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There are ghosts among us, slaves who are invisible to most of us, including police. They are people who have been trafficked either into Canada or from some other part of Canada. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Human trafficking Rise in human trafficking RCMP's human trafficking unit |
JOHANNESBURG - South African police are investigating an audacious raid on the Johannesburg High Court. An armed gang stole documents related to a number of high-profile organized crime cases. (BBC) PREVIOUS: Brickbats & bouquets for Shabangu Susan Shabangu 'Kill the bastards' |
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ST-JEROME - One day after 55 people were arrested in a massive drug raid that involved more than 500 officers from four police forces in Kanesatake, Akwesasne, Oka and Montreal, 45 of them were released on bail. (CTV) |
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WINNIPEG - RCMP in Manitoba have arrested 16 people from British Columbia after raiding more than a dozen rural properties investigators said housed marijuana grow operations. RCMP executed search warrants on 13 properties Tuesday in rural areas around the province's capital region. (CBC) |
NY grand rabbi pleads not guilty LOS ANGELES - Naftali Tzi Weisz, 59, the Grand Rabbi of Spinka, and the others were arrested after an indictment was returned Dec. 18 accusing the group of 37 counts including conspiracy, mail fraud and money-laundering. (AP) PREVIOUS: Rabbi and associates charged Spinka financial controversy |
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VANCOUVER - An Air Canada employee is at the centre of an international investigation after authorities at Vancouver International Airport seized a large quantity of cocaine before Christmas. . (Vancouver Province) |
VANCOUVER - The head of the RCMP's national drug branch is debunking claims by the United States' drug czar. (CP) PREVIOUS: Altered ecstasy from Canada flooding US Canadian made, meth-laced ecstasy being dumped into US |
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LONDON - The gold 'grains' - carefully wrapped in plastic and wedged inside travel luggage - were hidden inside a deposit box raided by the Metropolitan Police last week as part of a huge two-year investigation into the proceeds of organized crime. (Guardian UK) PREVIOUS: Brinks Mat robbery Police safety deposit box raids |
'Aladdin's cave of criminality' Serious Organized Crime Agency Battle to break Britain's crime lords Police chiefs 'rewarded for failure' |
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BERLIN - Once the work of South Americans and Africans, Germans are now serving as human couriers to smuggle cocaine into Europe inside their bodies.. (Spiegel) |
VANCOUVER - Inter Maritime looked just like any other nondescript company with an office on Howe St. in Vancouver's financial district in 2003. (Toronto Star) |
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100 MILE HOUSE - Police said they executed a search warrant on a rural home near Abel Lake and found "a large outbuilding built to grow marijuana on the property." (QMI) |
Another grow-op fire in Mission Grow-op bust leads to more arrests Case closed on brewery grow-op Major pot bust in abandoned brewery |
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Gang targeted corrections officer TORONTO - A correctional services officer was the target of an alleged murder plot uncovered as Toronto police try to stop a notorious street gang in its tracks. (Toronto Star) |
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VANCOUVER - Jose Francisco Cardoza Quinteros, the self-admitted killer who said he was once a member of the notoriously brutal Mara Salvatrucha gang, has been deported from Canada. (Surrey Leader) |
Japanese, American gangsters latest deported Anti-gang head says progress is being made El Salvador too dangerous for admitted killer Refugee will await claim behind bars |
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ICBC sues 95 accused in car thefts VANCOUVER - Ninety-five BC residents, including two young men awaiting trial for a gangland kidnapping, were sued by ICBC Friday in a massive fraud case involving more than $1.2 million worth of stolen vehicles. (Vancouver Sun) |
Stolen designer clothing found BASSANO, AB - Mounties aren't ruling out that organized crime may be behind the bust of a Bassano shop caught selling $1-million worth of designer clothing stolen from Calgary. (Calgary Herald) |
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Hundreds mourn Taiwan gang boss TAIPEI - The body of one of Taiwan's most infamous crime bosses, Chen Chi-li, has been flown back to Taipei, where hundreds attended a memorial service. Chen, a leading figure in the Bamboo Union, Taiwan's largest gang, died of cancer in Hong Kong earlier this month. (BBC) PREVIOUS: Triad society |
TORONTO - Answers to a crime that shocked and mystified Toronto for almost 15 years - when bold, professional killers literally shot their way into a suburban warehouse and executed two workers - have finally been revealed in New York, as two Chinese crime bosses now face life in prison for arranging the massacre. (National Post) |
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Conditional sentences after plea WINNIPEG - Two accomplices of criminal mastermind Gerald Daniel Blanchard have been sentenced after pleading guilty. Dale Fedoruk, 36, of Winnipeg, and Angela James, 22, of Edmonton, both got two-year conditional sentences on Monday after pleading guilty to fraud charges. (Winnipeg Free Post) |
Crime ring boss to plead guilty to theft Accused mastermind's lair raided |
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BC holds a prominent place in the organized crime world, according to a recent report that says the number of gangs in Canada is on the rise. The report identifies BC as a "hub" for organized crime group activity, such as drug production and distribution. (Vancouver Province) Police sought to freeze suspect's property 'We've chopped the head off the snake' Police 'chop head off' alleged drug ring Cops crack global drug-trade ring |
Illegal drug production thriving Credit card fraud charges follow raid Major credit fraud ring busted Police reveal extent of OC's long reach RCMP can't dent organized crime OC gangs aiding terrorists: RCMP Dong v. Liu 2008 BCSC 1795 .pdf
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TORONTO - Canada's top organized crime groups are recruiting workers at Pearson and other major airports to help them smuggle drugs and contraband into the country. (QMI) |
Dealers using truckers to smuggle US feared by Canadian criminals Guilty plea for drug smuggling |
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Proceeds hidden in horse trailer Abbotsford a hotbed of trafficking Olympian charged in conspiracy |
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Heroin haul likely Vancouver bound X-ray of shoe leads to record heroin Border guards' image takes blow Customs officer in drug ring bust 4 years for marijuana trafficking |
Cocaine found in commercial truck Abductees tied to missing cash Police sniff out major pot ring |
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Store firebombed after extortion bid Police bust drug smuggling ring Pot probe targets Harrison Hot Springs Largest cocaine bust in AB history Quebec man boss of drug operation |
Cocaine smuggled via 'torpedo' More than 130 arrested in Quebec Alleged fraud ring busted in Montreal Border guard charged in drug bust Drug rings becoming sophisticated |
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VANCOUVER - Purloined porn, a pop star and paparazzi made for pandemonium Monday at BC Supreme Court. Photographers, cameramen and reporters staked out both entrances to the downtown Vancouver facility to get a shot of Edison Chen, the Vancouver-born singer and fashion designer who is a sensation in Hong Kong. (Vancouver Province) |
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VANCOUVER - The deportation of Lai Changxing counts as a big victory for Chinese officialdom, which has been trying to get him back for a solid decade. (Economist) 72 Chinese tycoons died unnaturally Deportation will test 'honour & face' Lai tired by long legal battle Beijing slams Canada over work permit
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Chinese smuggling kingpin wins Chinese fugitive ordered freed Chinese fugitive loses bid for appeal Chinese fugitive fights to stay |
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BANGKOK - Surrounded by a team of Thai officials, financial fugitive Rakesh Saxena arrived back in Thailand from Vancouver and was handed over to police. (Vancouver Sun) |
BC Appeals orders another hearing China eyes its cards in murder case Canada 'slow' in giving up fugitives Somalia too deadly for violent inmate Subhash Agrawal Gloria & Faustino Chingkoe Raul Ortega Rodolfo Pacificador |
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LISBON - A renewed popularity in cocaine use among young adults over the past year has put the UK at the top of the European "league table" for cocaine abuse and now even outstrips the levels seen in the US, according to the annual report of the EU's drug agency (EMCDDA). (Guardian UK) |
It's a bird, it's a plane, No it's cocaine New York blows away the competition Steep rise in Europe cocaine use The Thames: awash with cocaine Italian river 'full of cocaine' Cocaine in surface waters: a new evidence based tool to monitor community drug abuse |
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Cross-border human smugglers nabbed PEACE ARCH - Two parallel investigations north and south of the U.S. border have resulted in indictments against 14 men accused of smuggling people into the U.S. (National Post) Authorities bust cross-border smuggling ring Ring smuggling illegals from South Asia halted |
15 days in a metal box, only to be locked up 22 stowaways nabbed at Port of Seattle Golden venture big sails off to jail New route for Chinese to get fake UK visas 'Crime network' targeted by simultaneous raids Seattle labelled 'hot spot' for human cargo Alleged 'snakehead' boss on trial Alleged Golden Venture mastermind pleads |
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