Sentences with phrase «organised crime groups»

An apparent clash between Azerbaijani organised crime groups in southern France raises questions around EU immigration fraud and security procedures.

The Serious Crime Bill tackles female genital mutilation, makes provision about involvement in organised crime groups and creates an offence of possession of guidance about committing sexual offences against children.

Along with it, comes the inevitability of increased smuggling activity by Organised Crime Groups (OCGs).

The fraud, which could involve organised crime groups, was carried out via the avoidance or falsification of the Bluefin Catch Documents (BCD) that are obligatory according to EU law concerning the fishing and trading of bluefin tuna - an endangered species.

It is also vulnerable to fake invoices, there are organised crime groups which are specialized in taking money from government because of fake invoices - because VAT works so, that if you have paid to you contrahents more as you are about to pay, the government pays you back the difference.

«This is just one example of how Border Force officers keep restricted and prohibited items out of the country and prevent them getting into the hands of organised crime groups».

The judge, Maria Sizintseva, said they acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

«In collaboration with international partners [we] identified a Romanian OCG [organised crime group] with the capability to import large amounts of cocaine into the UK on a weekly basis using HGV transport,» a NCA spokeswoman told The Times.

At a hearing in Moscow's Tverskoy District Court to decide whether Magomedov and his associates should be detained before their trial, Judge Maria Sizintseva said they had acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

«As we dismantle one organised crime group there's another one ready to come and take its place but what you do find is the levels of violence and organisation tends to increase incrementally as we go forward.

«Border Force, Airport authorities and the airline community were vital in helping us to stop this organised crime group in its tracks and pull together the evidence which lead to them being sentenced to significant jail time today.»

Not exact matches

If they knew the group were involved in organised crime then they can face charges, even if they don't know that a specific crime is being committed.

Her work focuses on the links between conflict, transnational organised crime and security, and the role that violent non-state groups play in these dynamics.

And these campaigns were not just fought by religious groups — the campaign against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill in 2004 united Rowan Williams, the NSS and evangelicals like the Barnabas Fund in its opposition.

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.

The five protesters, all from campaign group Plane Stupid, have already been arrested under the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act and will return to a central London police station for further questioning in April.

The group hit the headlines in 2011 after attacking a string of high - profile targets, including Nintendo, Sony, Bethesda, 20th Century Fox, the NHS and SOCA - the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.

In its judgment in Tsakouridis, the Court held that Article 28 (3) of Directive 2004/38 is to be interpreted as meaning that the fight against crime in connection with dealing in narcotics as part of an organised group is capable of being covered by the concept of «imperative grounds of public security» which may justify a measure expelling a Union citizen who has resided in the host Member State for the preceding 10 years.

As we have seen in point 26 of this opinion, the Court considered that dealing in narcotics as part of an organised group was a diffuse form of crime and could reach a level of intensity that might directly threaten the calm and physical security of the population as a whole or a large part of it.