18 May 2013
Gangsters and politics shake hands in Taiwan
Amazing allegations out of Taiwan. I dont know enough about the source to know what axe is being ground, but the argument fits with Lutetia Paoli's. It's politics stupid! Attempt to manipulate a leadership election in a Taiwanese political party by "organised crime"...but was there a mainland Chinese angle?
11 May 2013
Dutch media owner reveals youthful dalliance with IRA
If I can find the full interview, I will post it.
10 May 2013
From Chinese factory to UK households – realities of the trade in legal highs
Extract from a new book: Drugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How The World Gets High, by Mike Power is published by Portobello Books (
07 May 2013
UN Details How Cheap Cocaine Base Plagues South America
Piece from In Sight Crime on new UNODC report
03 May 2013
Cocaine flows through Sahara as al-Qaida cashes in on lawlessness
There's not a lot of evidence in the article for the al Qaeda assertion, but plenty of evidence that there are many who will take part for the money.
02 May 2013
Murder victim was the leader of a criminal gang
Brief insight into a Lithuanian gang operating in Ireland and possibly elsewhere in Europe.
30 April 2013
Seven Croxteth Crew gang members jailed for total of 113 years
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.”
16 April 2013
12 April 2013
Police seize £12m worth of cocaine in Essex
Members of a gang from the North West of the UK arrested in Essex under operation Titan
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