TE SAT 2013 TERRORISM SITUATION AND TREND REPORT
Europol terrorism report
Europol terrorism report
More news from the front line in my home city: Liverpool. Judges comment: “In this case drug dealing was not used as an end in itself but funding the gang’s principal activity of feuding.”
New UNODC Report
Cannabis farms grow smaller, but police claim greater success.
Lulzsec trial in Southwark. Apparently former leader of group has turned State’s Evidence in the USA
Members of a gang from the North West of the UK arrested in Essex under operation Titan
It has long struck me that everything else in the UK on which duty is ridiculously high is already smuggled, so oil must be…but how? We know about agricultural red diesel fraud, but biodiesel theft is a new one on me. Somewhere there is an organisation smuggling petrol…or at least evading duty on it. So … COOKING OIL THEFT ‘COSTS TREASURY £25M A YEAR IN LOST DUTY’
Now hang on here…”Tor”…”Bitcoin”…we need to know about these. Anonimisation software disguising identity and place together with an accepted international currency. Cybercrime moving on, but partially facilitated by US attempts to undermine a variety of governments…unanticpated consequences indeed.
Rowan’s blog. Always worth a read, but fine use of criminological theory to explain banker behaviour in the UK in this particular post.
Link at foot of press release to full document.