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Hell’s Angels/biker gangs
Heavily tipped to be the up and coming organized crime group, these originate in the United States and have approximately 2,000 members worldwide. They are heavily into drugs and extortion. It is a subject of keen debate as to whether groups in various countries are just biker gangs or organized criminals. The country that appears to have the biggest problem – and has done the most work in this area – is Canada. In that country Hell’s Angels are involved in narcotics trafficking, tobacco and alcohol smuggling, prostitution, theft and extortion. The 1999 Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada’s Organized Crime Report commented that ‘The Hell’s Angels are one of the most powerful and well structured criminal organizations in Canada.’
Balkan gangs
The UK National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) highlighted gangs originating from the Balkans as being growing players in organized crime activity in the United Kingdom. Involved in drug trafficking, their specialization is human trafficking for prostitution. Official estimates are that such groups now control about seventy per cent of the vice trade in Soho and other parts of London, using ‘kidnapped’ women.
Your tour here comes to an end. As you hand in your visitor badge you can't help feeling overwhelmed by the sheer scale and extent of Organized Crime Inc.'s involvement and investment in worldwide business. From football clubs to casinos, from fruit machines to sports equipment, from car dealers to launderettes. You also feel astonished by the army of bankers, professional advisors and consultants they employ. As you walk away, you almost feel you worked for them yourself.
To find out more, take a look at Peter Lilley’s insightful exposé, Dirty Dealing, The untold Truth about Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism.
This article is adapted from "Dirty Dealing" and appeared in "Business Solutions" magazine August/September 2003
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White Paper 10: Money Laundering & Organized Crime, an Overview
White Paper 8: An Overview of the Global Level of Fraud & Financial Crime
White Paper 14: An Overview of Organized Criminal Activity in Russia
White Paper 15: Organized Crime in Russia & The CIS: Capital Flight or Money Laundering?
White Paper 16:
Russian Organized Crime across the World
Money Laundering Progress & Problems
Dirty Dealing: The untold Truth about Global Money Laundering, International Crime and Terrorism
External Links
"The Observer" newspaper: Drug Gangs go to London's Diamond Dealers for Cash
The Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime & Corruption
The Wikipedia entry on Organized Crime
The Canadian Criminal Intelligence Service
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