Another ETS fraud raid reveals piles of cash, firearms

This is a carousel fraud with a difference. Trade in carbon credits and VAT evasion.

Warning over mass marketing scams

Mass marketing frauds worth over £3 billion per year says SOCA. So...Theyre having an international day of action. How about nicking a few people, SOCA?! It must be possible to trace these scams to their source, surely? Didnt we once have a Fraud Squad, tasked to deal with this?

Jamaican Dons like Christopher "Dudus" Coke are considered role models

Same old story. If you live in the area, organised crime keeps petty crime under control. Guardian gives the political background and arguse that the tide is turning. Bless it's fluffy social worker head.

Dudus about turn

Piece about the legal process in the Dudus extradition case

Dudus criminals in Kingston turned slum into "fortress festooned with booby traps"

So easy to turn the country of your choice into another Afghanistan or Iraq...Not so easy to rebuild the state and civil society afterwards. So what do we do when organised crime substitutes itself for both state and civil society? This is increasingly an important question that needs answers.

Jamaica clashes claim more than 70 lives

500 arrested too. Wonder if US Justice Department carried out a cost-benefit analysis...No cost to them. High costs to Jamaica. Benefits?? None for anyone as yet. Bit like Mexico really...The police end up illegitimate and the Army has to come in. So what do we do? Cut demand in the US maybe? Nah. Export your problems. Always the best way

Profile: Christopher "Dudus" Coke

BBC produce a rather thin profile of the man wanted by the US

"Dudus" backlash: US blasts Jamaica over extradition delay

Report from Jamaica at begionning of March that US putting pressure on for Jamaica to extradite "Dudus", who contols Tivoli gardens, an area of Kingston. Subsequent events show that the government had good reason to think twice about going in to arrest him.

Monkey Business by porcelain gangs leaves stately homes counting cost

Report drawing together robberies at stately homes and pleading for a national response

Cocaine Traffickers using Submarines in attempt to supply Europe

Weve heard of the submarines going from South to North America before. Now apparentl;y they are crossing to West Africa. this couldnt possibly be part of special pleading not to cut the Royal Navy, could it?