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
The 30th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime will take place at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK, from Sunday 2nd September through Sunday 9th September 2012. The title of The Symposium is Economic Crime – Surviving the Fall – Myths and Realities. the programme is available from the website linked from the title of this post.
Despite strenuous efforts from local, national, and international law enforcement, organized crime continues to thrive and prosper—even centuries-old crime outfits are surviving the global forces of mass migration and multinational business and finance. From traditional gangland enterprises such as narcotics, gambling, and prostitution, the world’s mafias have moved into new sources of illegal income, including … TRADITIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE MODERN WORLD
In an interview with Oilprice.com, Dr. Panos Kostakos, a Greek political analyst and expert in organized crime and terrorism, reminds us that “Greece is the birthplace of democracy, but the tragedy is that the current political system is a Parliamentary Mafiocracy. We should always keep that in mind when discussing issues of law and order and … GREECE: OIL SMUGGLING HELPS DEFINE THE ‘PARLIAMENTARY MAFIOCRACY’
