Cut and paste piece from the BBC magazine. 3 part documentary to be broadcast on BBC World Service and then available on iplayer. Probably worth downloading, especially f they get a debate going between those who could be accused of exaggerating the threat for business purposes and those who are more balanced and analytical. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17868789
A new committee of MEPs has been given one year to investigate organised crime, corruption and money laundering in the European Union, and to come up with fresh proposals to tackle the issue. Anti Mafia Committee Set Up by European Parliament Europol Welcomes anti-mafia committee Sonia Alfano (ALDE, IT) was elected chair of the recently … EU ANTI MAFIA COMMITTEE
Useful update on narcotics production in Burma. Warlords, militias, ethnic groups, corrupt Army commanders, changing markets. A reminder that not so long ago, Burma was the world’s biggest opium producer. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/ND27Ae01.html
Italian police – together with Interpol, the Serious Organized Crime Agency and Scotland Yard – arrested a Camorra (the Naples-based crime syndicate) member yesterday. Gianfranco Techegnè had been on the run for 30 years. http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/2012042636730/mafia-eventi-campania/camorra-latitante-da-circa-30-anni-arrestato-a-londra.html
and about time too! But they will just defect to the Dark or deep web. Particularly idiotic remark from SOCA cybercrime head: “I’d rather arrest 10 code writers than 1,000 front-end fraudsters,” It’s the organisers, stupid! Code writers are tools just like the front-enders http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17851257
Blogger has changed its format and at the moment none of your bloggers can work out how to link the post title to the URL, so here it is: https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publications/europoltsat.pdf If anyomne knows how to reinstate the previous system, please let us know
Rocco Trimboli, who was on the run since 2010, was arrested today near Reggio Calabria. He had been convicted for drug trafficking and mafia association. Trimboli is also considered a key person in the increasing role of the ‘Ndrangheta in northern Italy. http://www.corriere.it/cronache/12_aprile_24/arrestato-latitante-tromboli-macri_6be59aec-8dde-11e1-839c-11a4cf6ed581.shtml
Coast Guard stops 30th drug submarine
Former senior figure in MI6 calls for a different approach to illegal drugs.
Last week Riina Jr, the son of Cosa Nostra boss Toto’ Riina, has been tranferred from special surveillance in Corleone – where he lived after imprisonment for assication with organized crime – to Padua, where he started to work as a volunteer for a NPO. The arrival of Riina Jr had been delayed due to … THE ARRIVAL OF RIINA JR IN PADUA IS CAUSING PROTESTS
