38,000 working in 6,000 groups. New government strategy about to be published to go with establishment of NCA.

hmm…A couple of Romanian based individuals charged with trying to sell heroin for missiles for Hezbollah. Informants may have been used to mount a sting. Another guy supposed to be trying to buy stuff for the Taliban. Lets see how the trials pan out.

this is the Bureau on Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Some of “their” guns ended up at crime scenes. Controversial within the ATF.

National Security Council Strategy. I havent read it yet, so no comments to make at this pointt.

Summer School organised by UNICRI

“Me too!” Shouts the UK government. “I’ve got an organised crime strategy, too. Just like Big Brother in the US”.

Today the DIA (Direzione Investigativa Antimafia) of Padova (northern Italy) has seized assets equivalent to 3 million euro linked to a dangerous member of the ‘Ndrangheta living in Verona. In the last years ‘Ndrangheta seems to be heavily investing in real estate in the north-east of Italy.

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