Italy is not the only country with an organized crime problem. But movies and TV shows like “Scarface,” “The Godfather” and “Gomorrah” have made the Italian mobs – in both their southern Italian and American incarnations – world-famous. Such pop culture portrayals tend to romanticize a dangerous phenomenon that’s all too real for those whose lives…
Recently, the OCO have been contacted by representatives of UTICO in Massachusetts (USA). The representatives have transmitted to OCO a set of judicial documents referring to their long lasting case in the US. After an accurate review of the documentation and a confrontation with the ones available on the case at the NY courts, we…
The OCO received copies or the rogatory commissions sent by the Argentinian prosecutor in charge of the case to the Swiss Public Prosecutor. This case refers to previous publications in our website. El juez Casanello insiste en solicitar a Suiza la extradicio╠ün de Ne╠üstor Marcelo Ramos, 3_7_2017 El juez Casanello manda a Suiza un complemento…
An Argentino-Italian trustee is accused to help a close associate of the Kirchner couple to whitewash millions. Living in Ticino, the swiss federal authorities did not responded to the extradition requests from Buenos Aires. See the full article here.
OCO and Professor Nikos Passas are delighted to announce the organization of the conference entitled « Corruption and Economic Crisis: Criminal and Forensic Optics » under the auspices of SA. of the President of the Republic Mr Prokopios Pailopoulou and in cooperation with the Athens Bar Association, entitled “Corruption and Economic Crisis: Criminal and Forensic Optics » in…
Given the rapid development of initiatives aimed at helping businesses fight human trafficking, the RESPECT Initiative (comprising Babson College’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)), the Global Business Coalition Against Trafficking (GBCAT), and the United Nations Global Compact through its Action Platform on Decent Work in Global Supply Chains, have…
The UN Security Council (UNSC) is increasingly concerned with the detrimental role that organised crime, illicit flows, markets and criminal actors are playing in zones of conflict. This is the clear finding of a new research tool that the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GIATOC). GIATOC have analysed all UNSC resolutions and presidential statements…
The process of expansion of the ‘Ndrangheta in Eastern Europe continues and consolidates, together with the penetration of crime into the political system and institutions of countries such as Slovakia, reported RAI News. See the full article here.
The following paper was originally produced as a submission of the Organized Crime Observatory, Geneva, to the European Commission. Except: [The European Commission announced a public consultation on the March 1, 2017 with respect to cash payment limitations (CPLs) following the adoption of the action plan of the February 2, 2016 “against the financing of…
Oyu Tolgoi is one of the most important mining asset located in Mongolia. For decades, the company Rio Tinto have operated the mine without paying any royalty to the Mongolian government. This report explores and expose why and how. SOMO and Oyu Tolgoi Watch have published a report about how the mining giant Rio Tinto,…
