Sentences with phrase «organized crime groups»

This email stated that they commend his recent article in reference to the RCMP's strategy to combat illegal marijuana grow operations and the related organized crime groups.

Authorities in the U.K. and the European Union have reportedly become concerned that drug dealers and other organized crime groups are using Bitcoin ATMs to stash away illicit gains.

The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ASIC) has recently stated that, «Virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, are increasingly being used by serious and organized crime groups.»

A newly released report from the European Commission suggests there is relatively little virtual currency use among organized crime groups.

The joint campaign, to be launched later this year, aims to raise awareness among international tourists about the types of illicit goods and services to which they are often exposed during their travels and which directly or indirectly fund organized crime groups.

However, only three months later, on September 27, 2013, the Financial Service Agency («FSA») ordered Mizuho Bank, a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group («Mizuho»), to submit a business improvement report after an FSA investigation revealed that Mizuho Bank conducted business transactions with organized crime groups (which in Japan are referred to as «anti-social» groups).

«The cross-border operation may involve nationals of other countries, but once it gets to I - 10 and comes east toward the southern states and up north on 95... those are American organized crime groups that are helping with the distribution internally.»

«In Guerrero, police, both state and local, pose little obstacle to organized crime groups,» Adam Isacson, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), told The Daily Beast this month.

By the 1980s, organized crime groups controlled nearly all of the ready - mix concrete supplies in the New York area.

Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

Third - party distributors, like gangs and other organized crimes groups, are vital to the operations of Mexican TCOs.

Between him and his campaign advisors, it is more like an organized crime group.

Not exact matches

The region's violence is in large part driven by drug trafficking and organized crime — in Mexico, fragmentation of criminal groups has stoked more bloodshed in recent months.

InSight Crime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized cCrime spoke with Guadalupe Correa - Cabrera, the author of the 2017 book «Los Zetas Inc.,» to discuss the genealogy of the Zetas, how they rose and fell from power, and where the group stands today in the context of Mexican organized crimecrime.

Data breaches like the one Target suffered are typically conducted by organized crime syndicates or similar groups with a sizeable level of cleverness.

Asked in late June about the effect sanctuary - city policies have on efforts to combat transnational organized crime, Flordia Republican Sen. Marco Rubio said he didn't believe getting rid of them would solve the problem such groups posed.

Prosecutors who specialize in terrorism, narcotics trafficking and organized crime, led by the acting head of the Justice Department's criminal division, will bring prosecutions designed to restrict the flow of money to terrorist groups, Sessions said.

In today's environment, there are an abundance of well - funded and sophisticated hacking groups out there, many with nation - state or organized crime affiliations and interests, who are looking for any way possible to defraud or steal information from American business interests.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Organized crimes, whether committed by a state (whether or not they acknowledge it as a crime), religious group, or crime syndicate are just that organized crime.

The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York trCrime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York trcrime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York tracks.

Finding a peace solution that accounts for the interests of these groups — but also breaks up the vicious cycle of state neglect and organized crime that has driven much of the conflict — will be essential tandem goals.

These territories are also home to numerous groups involved the drug trade and other transnational organized crime, including right - wing groups that evolved from paramilitary groups demobilized between 2003 and 2006.

In the past, you would have organized - crime groups sneaking in to steal money, and you would hear about it weeks or months later.

Inspired by a real life heist in London, «Snatch,» centers on a group of twenty - something, up and coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high - stakes world of organized crime.

Informed by a real life gold bullion heist in London, the show centers on a group of twenty - something, up and coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high - stakes world of organized crime.

According to CNN, the crew for «Transformers: Age of Extinction» faced attempted extortion by groups linked to organized crime while filming in Hong Kong in 2013.

The film is set in Boston in the Prohibition Era and centers around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.

To do this, they must pose as hardcore street thugs to enter an organized crime and drug group who they believe knows the whereabouts of Keanu.

Illegal immigration and the racism attendant to it, social groups morphing into organized hate groups, the disintegration of traditional bonds, organized crime, white slavery — all of it is tossed into a loud, anxious bundle and presented as a confused overview of the hell of modern life.

Snatch «will carry the spirit» of the film and feature all new characters; inspired by a real life London heist, it «centers on a group of twenty - something, up - and - coming hustlers who stumble upon a truck load of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high - stakes world of organized crime.

Almost two decades after, destruction of material goods are still visible together with many symptoms of traumatized society: high level of organized crime, drug abuse, domestic violence, violence on streets, suicides, poverty and illnesses, feeling of insecurity, fears, anger and hate; difficulties to reach political solutions, reconcile divided groups, make the progress.

We know that there is not one massive Satanic cult, but many different interrelated groups, including religious, military / political, and organized crime, using mind control on children and adult survivors.

Peter Coffin is one of a group of artists who have been slowly moving into Masten Lake, which was originally a Jewish settlement and then a rumored organized - crime enclave.

A group of prominent scientists have written a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and OSTP Director Holdren asking for this to be investigated under RICO laws, which were originally designed to address organized crime.

RICO is a useful law for handling organized crime on a national level, but it has, in the past, been used as a weapon to strangle public debate, bankrupt or eradicate companies whose products or ideology run counter to the particular group intent on using the law.

Trick's Dirtiness: 7/10 While paying a company to organize groups of people to appear as though they're merely riled - up opponents of clean energy reform isn't a crime, it's certainly something of a dirty trick.

These efforts have resulted in an increase in stolen vehicle recoveries and criminal prosecutions of hard - core and major organized criminal groups, as well as related crimes.

This innovative design has made Bitcoin popular with a motley group of futurists, libertarians, and some organized crime.

Companions in Crime organizes the extensive literature on peer influence and group delinquency into a coherent form for the first time.

I have heard a pretty good argument that the groups that spend the most money lobbying the government to keep marijuana illegal are actually organized crime syndicates.