Sentences with phrase «in organised criminal»

«We are determined to bear down on the people who are engaged in organised criminal activity in the UK, and we believe that today's proposals will help to bring them to justice faster and more effectively,» said home secretary John Reid.

«Equally people who are in the creative industries need to know that they do have rights and if there are pirates around trying to steal them in an organised criminal way that the law will crack down hard on them.»

Commander Chris Greany, City of London Police and National co-ordinator for Economic Crime, said: «The growth in online dating has led to a rise in organised criminals targeting people looking for love.

Not exact matches

The bill will, for example, make organising the 2014 annual TUC Congress or organising a TUC national demonstration in the 12 months before the 2015 general election criminal offences.

«It was not operated by the United States government, but by figures from both Ghanaian and Turkish organised crime rings and a Ghanaian attorney practicing immigration and criminal law,» the State Department said in a statement released late on Friday.

These could come from armed groups such as the ELN, or one of the many right - wing and criminal groups involved in the illicit drug trade and other forms of transnational organised crime that plague the country.

He listed his priorities in the campaign against corruption in 2018 to include, organising African Youth Congresses against Corruption «in order to sensitise and engage our youth in the fight against corruption;» mobilising AU member states to implement the extant legal framework on corruption; and canvassing «for the strengthening of the criminal justice system across Africa through exchange of information and sharing best practices in the enforcement of anti-corruption laws.»

Urges all Member States to promptly and correctly transpose into their national legislation all existing EU and international legal instruments concerning organised crime, corruption and money laundering; urges Member States and the Commission to complete the Roadmap on the rights of suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings, including a directive on pre-trial detention;

According to HM Revenues and Customs, the alcohol smuggling industry costs the treasury # 1.2 billion per year in unpaid duties and much of the business of alcohol trafficking is controlled by organised criminals.

Instead, the rebels adopted a tactic favoured by organised criminals and bought an untraceable pay as you go mobile, encouraging sympathetic colleagues to get in touch that way.

Why would you want to leave supply in the hands of organised criminals?»

The paper also provides evidence that regulatory approaches are being overwhelmed by the drivers of poaching and trade, with enforcement of trade controls, including those agreed through CITES — the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species — attracting organised criminals who have the capacity to operate even under increased enforcement effort.

A huge international bank, the IBBC, is becoming the monopoly in arms - dealing, money laundering and is fast becoming friends with organised criminals and national dictators the world over.

The phrase has come, by extension, to describe a stand - in or body double paid by organised criminals to serve prison time on their behalf.

The UK's tax havens have featured in countless corruption and money laundering cases — ending their corporate secrecy will throw a huge spanner in the works of corrupt dictators, tax evaders and organised criminals.

The applicant in Kvasnica v Slovakia (application no 72094 / 01) is a practising member of the Slovak Bar Association who represented a group of companies under investigation for large scale organised criminal activities.

Just one pound in every # 6,120 netted by organised criminals is recovered by the CPS, according to research by...

Ely Place silk Nicholas Stewart is in The Hague today judging an international moot competition organised by the International Criminal Court and the University of Leiden.

The introduction of wide reaching legislation in the UK (including, the Enterprise Act 2002, Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Serious Organised Crime Act 2005, Fraud Act 2006, Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, Bribery Act 2010 and the Criminal Finances Act 2017) as well as the increasingly global and aggressive approach taken by the regulatory authorities both in the UK and abroad, highlight the need for businesses, their officers and employees to be able to navigate their way effectively through the regulatory minefield facing them in their day - to - day operations.

Criminals rely on the services of legal professionals to assist them — often unknowingly — in laundering the proceeds of serious and organised crime, which is estimated to cost # 24 billion to the UK economy each year.

This is intended to prevent criminals, particularly organised crime, from obtaining liability insurance to cover the costs of defending themselves in criminal actions brought by the state or civil actions brought by their victims.