The head of the CIS anti-organized crime bureau, Lt.Gen. Alexander Bokov, has been detained in Moscow on embezzlement charges, spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin said on Wednesday. Bokov, whose 2009 registered annual income was one million rubles (about $33,000), has been accused of stealing $46 million. The official is suspected of extorting … THE BOKOV AFFAIR: RUSSIAN HIGH RANKING POLICE OFFICIAL DETAINED, FACES $46 MLN EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGES

Organized crime is now a major threat to all industrial and non-industrial countries. Using an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach this book examines the nature of this threat. By analysing the existing, official institutional discourse on organized crime it examines whether or not it has an impact on perceptions of the threat and on the reality … DEFINING AND DEFYING ORGANISED CRIME

Interdisciplinary contributions are welcome to renew the debate over the Achilles’ heel of studies on transnational crime—the conceptual clarity of the concept. The catchy concept of transnational crime alarms the international community about the dangers of criminal processes that not a single state alone can effectively respond to. However, the term does little to capture … THE INTERDISCIPLINARY POLITICAL STUDIES (IDPS WWW.IDPS.UNISI.IT) INVITES ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ITS SPECIAL ISSUE ON TRANSNATIONAL CRIME TO BE PUB

There are important changes in the drug market. This interesting inquiry offers a good overview of changes in the consumers attitude as well as of the new drugs that have entered the market (some of them are so little known that they are not classified as illegal yet). Struggle against drug trafficking will have to … NEW DRUGS: AN ITALIAN INQUIRY

Smuggling people out of North Korea

As well as more information on the curious supply of guns by a US government agency, there’s a lovely graphic showing the spheres of influence of the drugs cartels

Ive posted this because today’s speaker at the Summer School has just said that the Cyprus government denies that organised crime exists in Cyprus. They appear to have admitted it in 1999

the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Tobacco Underground Project

Its amazing what my googling of Cyprus organised crime is turning up: The comments on the first post here describes a situation where 3 crime families control the Greek areas. the blog appears sadly infrequent, though.

These are shocking allegations. Even more shocking is how little was done at the time.