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
Lulzsec members admit cyber attacks on CIA and Serious Organised Crime Agency
Lulzsec trial in Southwark. Apparently former leader of group has turned State's Evidence in the USA
Green green grass of home: police crack down on cottage industry of cannabis
Cannabis farms grow smaller, but police claim greater success.
23 March 2013
Cooking oil theft 'costs Treasury £25m a year in lost duty'
It has long struck me that everything else in the UK on which duty is ridiculously high is already smuggled, so oil must be...but how? We know about agricultural red diesel fraud, but biodiesel theft is a new one on me. Somewhere there is an organisation smuggling petrol...or at least evading duty on it. So how is it being done?
22 March 2013
Calling him a liar to his face - How Sir John Pease of Standard Chartered has been forced to eat his words about sanctions busting!
Rowan's blog. Always worth a read, but fine use of criminological theory to explain banker behaviour in the UK in this particular post.
Silk Road: the online drug marketplace that officials seem powerless to stop
Now hang on here..."Tor"..."Bitcoin"...we need to know about these. Anonimisation software disguising identity and place together with an accepted international currency. Cybercrime moving on, but partially facilitated by US attempts to undermine a variety of governments...unanticpated consequences indeed.
19 March 2013
UNODC Transnational organised Crime in West Africa; Threat assessment
Link at foot of press release to full document.
17 March 2013
Are Russian killers on the streets of Britain?
Update on the Hermitage Capital fraud in Russia. Mysterious deaths and dark hints. Good stuff for a dismal Sunday!
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