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Fighting organized crime with open source : regulatory strategies

A publication from IOS Press was released in 2014, by numerous academics from the Institute of Law and Technology (Autonomous University of

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Africa and organized crime : a cost of 50 billion a year

Africa loses at least $50 billion a year to illicit practices like tax fraud, corruption and organized crime, a worrying situation that is hurting

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How elephants are financing organized crime

Shortly before 11 a.m. on the last Saturday in May, a heavily laden white Mitsubishi truck pulled into the Fuji Motors East Africa car dealership in

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160 arresti contro la N’drangheta in Italia

Maxi operazione dei carabinieri contro la ’ndrangheta in Emilia Romagna. Gli arresti disposti dalla magistratura di Bologna sono 117. Tra quest

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And now, AfriLeaks for new whistleblowers

African whistleblowers have now their platform in order to fight corruption, which is “secure”, announced a strange online video on the Internet

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How European PR firms are used by dictators

How European PR firms are used by dictators

Yesterday, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an international NGO based in Brussels, released a new report exposing companies behind Europe’s

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In Spain, more than 150 ongoing corruption cases in the courts

The idea that the New Year means a chance to start all over again is often little more than a well-meaning fantasy. And nowhere is that more clear

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How to (re)think organized crime in Mexico

How to (re)think organized crime in Mexico

By 2010, the criminal landscape in Mexico differed greatly from that in 1989. Numerous crime groups, some with small but critical niches, controlled

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China’s hunt for corruption : chief of secret service detained

Ma Jian, one of the mainland’s top spy chiefs, has been detained over alleged corruption as part of President Xi Jinping’s ever-widening crackdown on

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Mubarak, possibly free, is facing court for corruption

Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, 86, will face Supreme Court in a case of corruption. The only charge left, after the cancellation Tuesday

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