Membership of Japan’s yakuza crime gangs falls to all-time low Agence France-Presse in Tokyo theguardian.com, Thursday 6 March 2014 07.25 EST Members of the largest yakuza group, the Yamaguchi-gumi, at a funeral in the 1980s. Photograph: AP The… Read More ›
Organized crime
Shadowy world of Britain’s discount hitmen revealed in new study
Contract killing is one of the least studied, but most intriguing areas of organized crime; and new research into British hitmen has found that in some cases victims were murdered for as little as £200. The first typological study of… Read More ›
Europe Has 880,000 Slave Laborers
A report by the European Parliament says there are 3,600 international criminal organizations in the European Union and that some 880,000 slave laborers live in the 27-nation bloc, including 270,000 victims of sexual exploitation. A European Parliament report seen by… Read More ›
Colombia: The virgin auctions in Pablo Escobar’s home town
Behind Medellin’s cosmopolitan façade, the town’s street gangs entrap girls as young as 10 then sell them to the highest bidder James Bargent Tuesday, 8 October 2013 It is a phrase now commonly heard in the hillside slums of Medellin,… Read More ›
Italian Mafia corrupts green energy sector, sting operations show
3:34 AM 01/25/2013 The Italian Mafia has heavily infiltrated the country’s renewable energy sector, according to reports of sting operations there. Since the early 2000s, when governments started flooding global energy markets with cheap loans, organized crime elements have taken… Read More ›
It’s not easy being a Yakuza boss
By Jake Adelstein — Oct 15 These days the price of a standard civilian hit-job can run as high as $2 million. That’s not the price to get the job done — that’s the price if one of your underlings… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 