Colombia and Peru have agreed upon a plan to combat criminal organizations on their common border, the defense ministers of the two countries announced to the press after a Wednesday meeting in Bogota. “Colombia and Peru have decided to aggressively confront organized crime which respects no borders, such as drug trafficking and illegal logging and [...]
2012 Jan 27 | Posted in
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Brazilian police are investigating possible connections between the organized crime groups controlling illegal gambling in Rio de Janeiro and Russian and Israeli mafias, with casinos in Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay. According to daily newspaper O Globo, the legal casinos play a key role in laundering money for operators of illegal lotteries and slot machines in [...]
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Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
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Amnesty International released a highly critical report on Tuesday, saying the national police force kills and tortures with impunity in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican national police were responsible for 15 percent of violent deaths recorded annually in the Dominican Republic from 2005 to 2010, according to the report. The London-based human rights group said [...]
2011 Oct 27 | Posted in
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Brazilian Federal Police have arrested two men accused of murder in Tokyo under contract to the Yakuza, the feared Japanese mafia. On Tuesday, Interpol agents captured Cristiano Ito (a.k.a. the Boar), age 35, in Mogi das Cruzes, and Cristian Marcelo Gomes Fukuda, 31, in Campinas. According to federal police, Ito’s head and neck [...]
Addressing the press after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón this week, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Director Yury Fedotov stressed the impact that organized crime has on that region as well as other parts of the world. “These criminals are responsible for the death and misery of people across the globe [...]
2011 Oct 01 | Posted in
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During the inauguration in Montevideo, Uruguay of the XI International Conference of the Interpol Working Group on Technology Crime (including cybercrime) , the President of the Interpol Working Group Mr. Miguel Angel Justo (from Argentina) said that “the police of the countries of Latin America must bring their national legislation on tech crime to the conference, [...]
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In the beginning, social networks were just a new way of socializing among friends and business people. In the last few years, some people have begun using these networks for other purposes than family and friends. Using facebook some people started a political movement that ended in the Egyptian revolution against Mubarak. Others organize urban riots like some [...]
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Since he arrived in handcuffs at the Judicial Police (PJ) of Pichincha in the north center of Quito, Myasnikov M. remained silent, just speaking with his translator. The russian was wanted by Interpol accused of murder, illegal storage of firearms and explosives in his home country, Russia. The official website of Interpol has two photographs [...]
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The Internet has become one of the main tools of European organized crime and human trafficking, drugs and money laundering in addition to being a vehicle of cybercrime. According to a new report by the European Police Office, Europol, in the last two years have seen a marked increase of criminal groups who use the [...]
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