Transnational Organized Crime (Catch All)

[Jedburgh]

NIJ, Jan 07: Asian Transnational Organized Crime and its Impact on the US (http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/214186.pdf)

...The first chapter of this monograph describes the divergent perceptions of Asian transnational organized crime held by the Asian versus the U.S. interview participants and also offers a researcher’s perspective. The second chapter explains the scope and patterns of Asian organized crime. The final chapter offers an initial assessment of the impact of Asian transnational organized crime on the United States....

[Jedburgh]

The Western Association of Eastern European Organized Crime Investigators is proud to announce its 2007 WAEI Workshop "Eastern European Organized Crime - Hiding in Plain Sight"

This opportunity to receive 2 full days of training designed to benefit all Eastern European investigators and analysts will increase your knowledge and provide valuable networking opportunities with others in the field.

Our keynote speaker is one of Canada's finest documentary filmmakers, Ric Esther Bienstock, producer / director of Sex Slaves (http://www.apltd.ca/sexslaves/index.htm), a gripping exposé on the global sex slave trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc.

Seating is limited to the first 250 registered on a first come / first served basis. You must pre-register by April 20, 2007.

When: Monday & Tuesday, April 30th & May 1st, 2007
Where: Auditorium - 911 Federal Building
911 NE 11th Ave Portland, Oregon 97232
Cost: $100.00 USD pre-paid 1 November, 2006 - 28 February, 2007
$125.00 USD pre-paid 1 March, 2007 - 30 April, 2007
Register by e-mail: dorothy.teel@calgarypolice.ca
Accommodation: Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center Portland - Lloyd Center (http://www.portlandlloydcenter.doubletree.com)
1000 NE Multnomah, Portland, Oregon 97232
Tel: (503) 281-6111 Fax: (503) 284-8553

[Stan]

Jed,
Thanks for the interesting posting !
I work with most of Estonia's various LE agencies and we often attend conferences and seminars together, due in part to Estonia's unique structure. EOD and post blast falls under Rescue, not LE and demining falls under Rescue, not the military.

We used to do several Marcus Evans' seminars/conferences. Not that they were bad (contacts are also considered a good thing), but not relative to our cultural problems and not cheap either.

Estonia is among the few success stories. Most of our OC are in hiding or returned to the 'mutha land'. Going from an IED or military ordnance-related explosion a day in 95 to less than 2 a year in 2006. Latvia and Lithuania are dealing with this 10-fold as we type.

We really never had the sex slave problems; most of those were volunteers from due east.

I will gladly pass on this info to our LEs if you could send me the link(s).

Regards, Stan

[Jedburgh]

I will gladly pass on this info to our LEs if you could send me the link(s).
Stan - check your PMs.

[Jedburgh]

UNODC, 17 Jun 10: The Globalization of Crime: A Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment (http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/tocta/TOCTA_Report_2010_low_res.pdf)

In the past quarter century (namely, since the end of the Cold War), global governance has failed to keep pace with economic globalization. Therefore, as unprecedented openness in trade, finance, travel and communication has created economic growth and well-being, it has also given rise to massive opportunities for criminals to make their business prosper.

Organized crime has diversified, gone global and reached macro-economic proportions: illicit goods are sourced from one continent, trafficked across another, and marketed in a third. Mafias are today truly a transnational problem: a threat to security, especially in poor and conflict-ridden countries. Crime is fuelling corruption, infiltrating business and politics, and hindering development. And it is undermining governance by empowering those who operate outside the law....

[selil]

Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nsc/transnational-crime)


The Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime applies all elements of national power to protect citizens and U.S. national security interests from the convergence of 21st century transnational criminal threats. This Strategy is organized around a single unifying principle: to build, balance, and integrate the tools of American power to combat transnational organized crime and related threats to national secu- rity—and to urge our foreign partners to do the same. The end-state we seek is to reduce transnational organized crime (TOC) from a national security threat to a manageable public safety problem in the United States and in strategic regions around the world. The Strategy will achieve this end-state by pursuing five key policy objectives:

Protect Americans and our partners from the harm, violence, and exploitation of transnational criminal networks.
Help partner countries strengthen governance and transparency, break the corruptive power of transnational criminal networks, and sever state-crime alliances.
Break the economic power of transnational criminal networks and protect strategic markets and the U.S. financial system from TOC penetration and abuse.
Defeat transnational criminal networks that pose the greatest threat to national security by targeting their infrastructures, depriving them of their enabling means, and preventing the criminal facilitation of terrorist activities.
Build international consensus, multilateral cooperation, and public-private partnerships to defeat transnational organized crime.


It is an interesting read. The cyber element as "just part of the mix" is likely the best way to put it.

[SWJ Blog]

Understanding Informational Features of Transnational Criminal Networks: Cases from Mexico and Guatemala (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/understanding-informational-features-of-transnational-criminal-networks-cases-from-mexico-a)

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Drug Trafficking, Violence, and Instability (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/drug-trafficking-violence-and-instability)

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Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Criminalized States (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/transnational-organized-crime-terrorism-and-criminalized-states)

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Review: Intersections of Crime and Terror (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/review-intersections-of-crime-and-terror)

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Combating Transnational Organized Crime: Is the Department of Defense Doing Enough? (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/combating-transnational-organized-crime-is-the-department-of-defense-doing-enough)

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[Bill Moore]

Some updates that are relevant to old and emergent security challenges, and the nexus between irregular adversaries and organized crime.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100952225

Organized crime: World’s most lucrative criminal activities


Cross-border organized crime is big business, worth about $2.1 trillion per year, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC), equivalent to 3.5 percent of world GDP in 2009. That's more than six times the world's development aid budget for that year, and equivalent to about 7 percent of global exports of merchandise.


Perhaps unsurprisingly, trafficking illegal drugs is the most lucrative form of illicit business, constituting about half of all proceeds from transnational organized crime. However, plenty of money is also being made from less high-profile enterprises, such as smuggling natural resources such as timber, oil, and gold and other precious metals.

To learn more about this, and other highly profitable criminal activities, read on.

Crime gangs cash in on Europe's budget flights


This type of organized crime group flies gang members to a country in the morning to carry out a succession of quick-fire robberies, before flying out in the evening. They hand over their ill-gotten gains to criminal partners in the local area, and regularly take a different flight to a different country the following day. Private homes, businesses, high-value cars, machine parts and increasingly commodities like metal are all targets.


We need to make sure there is a swift exchange of intelligence - so we can get ahead of the game and identify these gangs before they strike, or at least get on the back of them as soon as they have done," he said. And make sure we have the means possible by which we can coordinate multinational arrest operations in the end... not working at a national level, but as a connected community.

http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/terrorism-newest-worry-for-cargo-ships-1.245154

Terrorism newest worry for cargo ships


“A rocket fired by suspected al-Qaida terrorists at a COSCO container ship as it transited the Suez Canal in August apparently hit a container crammed full of smuggled cigarettes,” the JOC article said, citing a report by the Irish Independent.

The illicit cargo, with an estimated street value of nearly $6 million, was headed to a phony furniture company in Dundalk, Ireland, part of a smuggling operation supposedly run by businessmen with links to the former members of the Irish Republican Army.

According to Irish press reports, the cigarettes were believed to have been acquired in Vietnam and were heading for Rotterdam, the Netherlands, when the ship was attacked. A tracking device was placed on the container at the Port of Rotterdam and tracked by satellite through Dublin Port and on to a village near Dundalk in County Louth, where four men were arrested.

This is serious, but on the lighter side it appears AQ exposed an international cigarette smuggling operation. Do they get reward money for this? :rolleyes:

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Call to Create OAS Inter-American Commission against Transnational Organized Crime (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/call-to-create-oas-inter-american-commission-against-transnational-organized-crime)

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Mexican Drug Cartels Bringing Crime, Violence To Oklahoma Streets (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/mexican-drug-cartels-bringing-crime-violence-to-oklahoma-streets)

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Brazil’s Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) and its National Security Implications (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/brazil%E2%80%99s-transnational-organized-crime-toc-and-its-national-security-implications)

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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Issues Comprehensive Report on Transnational Organized Crime in California (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/attorney-general-kamala-d-harris-issues-comprehensive-report-on-transnational-organized-crime-i)

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The Political Capital of Crime Groups in Mexico and the Politics of Anti-crime Measures (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-political-capital-of-crime-groups-in-mexico-and-the-politics-of-anti-crime-measures)

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In Latin America, Lines Between Crime and War Begin to Blur (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/in-latin-america-lines-between-crime-and-war-begin-to-blur)

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Hemispheric Crime, Risks to Mexico and Counterinsurgency Needs (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/hemispheric-crime-risks-to-mexico-and-counterinsurgency-needs)

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Crime Wars and Narco Terrorism in the Americas: A Small Wars Journal-El Centro Anthology (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/crime-wars-and-narco-terrorism-in-the-americas-a-small-wars-journal-el-centro-anthology)

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The Transnational Gang Threat (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-transnational-gang-threat)

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Drug Trafficking, Corruption and States (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/drug-trafficking-corruption-and-states)

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Terrorism and Organized Crime: Exploring the Mexican Situation (http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/terrorism-and-organized-crime-exploring-the-mexican-situation)

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The Norwich Review of International and Transnational Crime (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/the-norwich-review-of-international-and-transnational-crime)

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[davidbfpo]

The full title is 'Transnational Organized Crime (TNOC) and terrorism Part I – Godfathers and bombs: organised crime and terrorist tactics' on the Kings of War blog 'Strife':https://strifeblog.org/2016/02/15/godfathers-and-bombs-organised-crime-and-terrorist-tactics/

Their aim is to look at the issue differently and they explain:
This series will focus on this latter type of the crime/terror nexus. Why should a criminal organisation use dangerous terrorist tactics? Which kind of objective is it pursuing? Is this an entirely new phenomenon? We will deal with these questions all along the three parts of our Series. First, Martin Stein will explore the bombings of 1992-93 in Italy and their role in the struggle between the Sicilian Mafia and the Italian State; then, the Bombay bombings of March 1993 will be covered, and how one of the most famous Indian dons, Dawood Ibrahim, was part of the plot to hit India; finally, Joe Atkins will review the cases of mass killings and ‘disappearances’ in Mexico, exploring how terror is widely used as a tool to assert control on a frightened population. The varied scope of these articles will highlight different aspects of the link between criminal organisations and the use of terror. In Italy, bombings were part of a precise strategy to intimidate the Italian state; in India, the attacks were motivated by religious reasons and by Ibrahim’s intent to appear still as the protector of Bombay Muslims; in Mexico, terror seems to constitute a ‘normal’ part of ‘cartel justice’, thus delivering worrying parallels between ‘narco-warriors’ and fundamentalists.

[davidbfpo]

Organized / organised crime features here and there is a new strategic book out by James Cockayne, 'Hidden Power: The Strategic Logic of Organised Crime' and is available at 40% off by the publisher, with worldwide free P&P.

Need to check if worth a purchase? The author and a UK DFID respondent spoke last month @ IISS, London and there is a podcast:http://www.iiss.org/en/events/events-s-calendar/the-strategic-logic-of-organised-crime-a11a

From their notice:
The struggle for power between states and criminal entities is a real one. New research conducted by Dr James Cockayne using unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs sheds light on political-criminal collaboration, and indicates that those links – once embodied by the activities of the Sicilian mafia in twentieth-century New York – are very much alive and thriving today. From Mexico to Central Asia to Russia to West Africa, states and organised criminals compete in a 'market for government', and not only states, but also some criminal groups, make war.

The publisher's offer:http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/hidden-power/
You do have to register.

There are other books of note for this Forum:http://www.hurstpublishers.com/holiday-sale-full-list/?mc_cid=4599035f20&mc_eid=80d42c7c0a

[AdamG]

reading music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZqNUo6y52Q)


A senior National Security Agency official appeared to confirm that North Korean computer hackers were behind a multi-million dollar heist targeting Bangladesh’s central bank last year.
Computer hackers attempted to steal $951 million, but only got away with $81 million, some of which was later recovered. After the theft, security firms quickly pointed the finger at North Korea. Other experts disputed that finding. But on Tuesday, NSA Deputy Director Rick Ledgett appeared to say North Korea was the culprit during a cryptic exchange at a Washington forum.


Speaking at an Aspen Institute roundtable, Ledgett pointed out that private sector researchers had linked the digital break-in in Bangladesh to the 2014 hack on Sony Pictures, which the U.S. government attributed to Pyongyang.
“If that linkage from the Sony actors to the Bangladeshi bank actors is accurate — that means that a nation state is robbing banks,” Ledgett said. “That’s a big deal.”
The moderator of the event, former Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin, quickly followed up: “Do you believe that there are nation states now robbing banks?”
Ledgett offered a simple answer: “I do.”

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/21/nsa-official-suggests-north-korea-was-culprit-in-bangladesh-bank-heist/


United States federal prosecutors are reportedly building a case implicating North Korea's government of orchestrating an $81 million cyber heist from the Bangladesh central bank's account at the New York Federal Reserve.

The Wall Street Journal, citing officials familiar with the matter, reported on Wednesday that prosecutors also believe Chinese middlemen helped Pyongyang plunder Bangladesh Bank's funds. The case implicates the country of North Korea, rather than any particular North Korean officials, and also includes charges against the Chinese middlemen or businesses allegedly involved.
The US Treasury is reportedly also considering sanctions against the middlemen.

http://www.dw.com/en/fbi-prepares-charges-against-north-korea-over-bangladesh-heist/a-38081602

[davidbfpo]

Eight threads have been merged here and theme includes all types of crime and their consequences.

[davidbfpo]

An IISS meeting on this theme on the 5th April 2017 and explained as:
The IISS and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime warmly invite you to join this discussion on transnational threats. It will be an opportunity to explore some of the findings of a recent US National Defense University project on the emergence, over the past ten years, of a ‘highly adaptive and parasitic’ criminal ecosystem. The panellists will explore its consequences for national security, state fragility and the global order. Specifically, the discussion will address the following questions:what is the role of social media in bolstering the appeal of anti-state actors, allowing them to establish ‘cult-like’ followings? To what extent are jihadist networks increasingly a part of the drug-smuggling business in West African ‘protection economies’? How is the growing grey space between licit and illicit commerce explored by global counterfeit and smuggling networks? And how have technological innovations, which have made our lives and work so much easier, produced disconcerting vulnerabilities in the cyber domain that are increasingly being exploited by criminal groups, terrorists and hostile states alikeThe speaker bios are there too:http://www.iiss.org/en/events/events-s-calendar/forward-thinking-on-transnational-threats-d6fd

There is an IISS podcast via YouTube (87 mins):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS7C03oZMM8

[davidbfpo]

A background study commissioned by the UK, co-author James Cockayne has appeared in this thread before and the report's (47 pgs.) sub-title says:
How organized crime and corruption will impact governance in 2050 and what states can – and should – do about it now.Link:http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6318/UNU-CrookedStates_Final.pdf