The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/organized-crime/)
Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate close to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, had been sanctioned in 2018 and accused of extortion, racketeering, bribery, and links to organized crime.
The majority of people worldwide live in countries with high levels of organized crime, a crisis made worse by COVID-19, according to an index released Tuesday by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
The massive bust ensnared a total of 14 defendants who threatened bodily harm to force union decisions that channeled kickbacks to the Colombo organized crime family.
On Wednesday, the FBI announced the global takedown of hundreds of criminals involved in drug trafficking and organized crime, thanks to an encrypted social messaging platform the FBI was secretly peddling to criminals. Authorities around the world say this saved lives, and transforms the way investigators will fight organized crime in the future.
Experts say that traffickers have been able to exploit economic anxieties fueled by COVID, while using the Internet to advertise, recruit and exploit their victims. A new report tracks trafficking “hot spots” across the U.S.
Belgian, Dutch and French police said they hacked into the Sky ECC network, allowing them to look “over the shoulders” of crime bosses as they communicated with customized devices to plot drug deals and murders. Over 80 people have been arrested.
The future of a state law enacted to keep the mafia from operating legal gambling in California is in doubt after a judge upheld a claim by Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt that it is unconstitutional.
Rising youth unemployment will provide a “fertile field” for the expansion of Mexico’s crime cartels in the aftermath of COVID-19 — and is likely to pose a new threat to national security in America’s southern neighbor, three researchers predict.
“The mafia becomes almost like a benefactor–they behave like the Red Cross–for which a certain portion of society is grateful,” a roundtable of experts on Italian organized crime was told.
In Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-biggest city, Alejandrina Guzman, a daughter of jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was among those seen by reporters handing out the packages stamped with her own company’s ‘El Chapo 701’ logo.