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NDLEA busts Mexican-Nigerian drug cartel - Punch ...

Taiwo Ojoye — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 22:30:41 -0400

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has discovered a methamphetamine laboratory run by Mexicans and dislodged a major drug trafficking organisation in the country. Officials of the Special Enforcement Team NDLEA ...

Big Pharma Companies Charged With Supplying Drug Cartels

Carol Adl — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 11:03:48 -0400

Executives with pharmaceutical companies in Belgium are to be charged with knowingly supplying drug cartels with prescription drugs that were used to...

Orange Says in Exclusive Talks to Acquire Security Threat ...

Robin Reyes — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:27:57 -0400

Orange Says in Exclusive Talks to Acquire Security Threat Intelligence Services Company Lexsi (NYSE:ORAN). March 11, 2016 by Robin Reyes in Mergers & Acquisitions, Stock -- News · 0 Comment. Orange (NYSE:ORAN) said Friday it is in ...

TASS: Russian Politics & Diplomacy - Official: Litvinenko ...

unknown — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 03:02:44 -0400

MOSCOW, March 11. /TASS/. The court proceedings against Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian intelligence service, FSB, was used in interests of intelligence services; the farce was staged to blackmail the ...

US SANCTIONS TANZANIAN KINGPIN “SHKUBA” | Mtembezi

zuhura simba — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 02:03:01 -0400

Hassan is a major international drug kingpin who smuggles multi-ton shipments of heroin and cocaine to Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America via his East Africa-based drug trafficking organization. As a result of today's ...

ZanziNews : US Treasury sanctions Tanzanian Kingpin and ...

ZanziNews — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:28:00 -0400

UCSC Students Arrested for Drug Trafficking Charges | City ...

Samantha Hamilton — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:08:54 -0400

Six UC Santa Cruz students were arrested on March 4 for drug trafficking charges, including conspiracy and possession of a controlled substance for sale, according to a press release from the Santa Cruz Police Department (SCPD). ... Heer Purewal, president of UCSC's Inter-Greek Council, said she is disappointed with major media outlets' emphasis on the students' fraternity and sorority membership, which imply a link between drugs and Greek letter organizations.

How democratically accountable are the UK's security and ...

Democratic Audit UK — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 04:30:42 -0400

In practice it is Commons-dominated and is the major way in which MPs in the Westminster Parliament (plus a few peers) exercise a degree of control over the UK's intelligence and security services. These consist of.

Mexico forced to militarize schools as drug cartels ... - Fusion

Manuel Rueda — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:35:27 -0400

ACAPULCO Mexico—Violent crime is a familiar problem at CBTIS 14, a public high school in Acapulco's western suburbs.

New Confiscation Laws Ensure Crime Doesn't Pay | Premier ...

Madelaine Sexton — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:00:18 -0400

The proposed law also amends the Criminal Organisations Control Act 2012 to make it easier for police to seek a declaration that an organisation is a criminal organisation. The Bill will consolidate the two current types of ...

US Legalization Forcing Mexican Drug Cartels Out of the ...

Mike Adams — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 14:21:15 -0400

Although there are only a handful of states operating fully legal cannabis markets in the United States, they appear to be chipping away at the financial foundation of the Mexican drug cartels. Indeed, while Uncle Sam has ...

How to Run a Drug Cartel - Reason.com

Ian Vasquez — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:00:00 -0400

Public DomainTo understand how drug cartels work, we should consider the industry as we would any other that has to deal with regular business problems–how to hire the best personnel, how to handle the competition, how ...

Author Tom Wainwright on the drug cartels: What big ...

Michael A. Lindenberger — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 11:48:41 -0400

A warning message to a local police chief, signed allegedly by Zetas cartel, was left next to the bodies. (AP Photo/Victor Fernandez). Could it be that ruthless drug lords succeed largely because they have learned to be ...

Media release: ISC received People's Review of the ...

stopthespies — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:15:28 -0400

ISC received People's Review of the Intelligence Services. Tuesday, 1st March February 2016. Media Release: Stop the Spies. Prime Minister and Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) John Key and fellow ...

What McDonald's and Walmart Can Teach Drug Cartels - Vice

Seth Ferranti — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 10:00:00 -0400

Writer Tom Wainwright's latest book Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel looks at the drug trade as if it were a legal business, finding common ground between the underworld and legitimate corporations.

Putin: Over 400 foreign intelligence services career ...

unknown — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:11:59 -0400

MOSCOW, February 26. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday more than 400 career staff employees of foreign intelligence services were exposed in Russia in 2015. "Foreign intelligence services are ...

Labor buries review into failed Criminal Organisation Act ...

AStitz — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:39:25 -0400

Shadow Attorney-General Ian Walker said the Wilson Review into the Criminal Organisation Act 2009 was handed down on 15 December 2015, but the Attorney-General today admitted she was still considering the report after more than two ...

A Brief History of the Relationship Between Mexican Drug ...

Brian McManus — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:30:00 -0400

Pope Francis used a recent visit to urge Mexicans to steer clear of the temptations of drugs and illicit cash, but when it comes to local cartels, the Catholic Church has its own questionable history to contend with.

Global Intelligence Service: Fancy Fiction or Reality Within ...

unknown — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 08:10:00 -0400

There is not yet a unified global intelligence service, however what are the chances of the one being created? Sputnik Italia sat down with Franco Frattini, President of the Italian Society for International Organizations (SIOI) ...

Our football has been run by a criminal cartel, insist South ...

Keir Radnedge — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:50:36 -0400

GUAYAQUIL: South American tax chiefs have suggested that football in the continent has been governed by a criminal cartel rather than a sports organisation writes KEIR RADNEDGE. Senior officials from Argentina, Bolivia, ...

Organised crime and terrorism Part I: Godfathers and bombs ...

strifeadmin — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:02:52 -0400

This introductory piece is the first in a four-part series exploring the relationship between organised crime and terrorism in a 21st century security environment. By: Andrea Varsori The general understanding of how criminal ...

74 Year Old Woman In Wheelchair Leader Of International ...

Chinsui — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 06:02:06 -0400

Perez and her Central Florida drug network brought in an estimated $300,000 trafficking drugs in from Columbia. “This organization, we're going to conservatively say, was moving about two kilos a month,” said DEA Asst.

DEA pledges to “dismantle and destroy” crime organisations ...

Jomo Paul — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:55:25 -0400

Regional Director for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Matthew Donahue has made it clear that while the small drug traffickers will not be ignored, the DEA is mostly interested in pursuing the huge organizations behind ...

The government just admitted it will use smart home devices ...

Trevor Timm — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 16:29:31 -0400

“In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,” Clapper told a ...

IT Security Mimics Intelligence Services More than You ...

Michael Mimoso — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 15:36:55 -0400

TENERIFE, Spain – Intelligence services may be the security industry's boogeyman right now, but for a long time, IT security has done a good job of following the government's lead when it comes to developing new ...

Hezbollah Reportedly Using Drug Trafficking To Fund Global

Jimmy King — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:59:22 -0400

The terrorist organization has reportedly forged relationships with South American drug traffickers to finance its operations. In an international trade system known as the Black Market Peso Exchange, Hezbollah profits from ...

How Mexico's drug cartels make billions - Business Insider

Eames Yates and Amanda Macias — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:48:04 -0400

Mexican drug cartels are making billions of dollars by flooding America with cocaine and other drugs. Ioan Grillo, author of "Gangster Warlords," breaks down what drug traffickers invest and the kind of profits they make.

DEA Cracks Down on “Massive” Hezbollah Drug Trafficking ...

TheTower.org Staff — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 19:30:43 -0400

An ongoing investigation into a “massive” international drug trafficking and money laundering operation run by the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah has resulted in several arrests, the Drug Enforcement Agency ...

Two dozen Sinaloa drug cartel members arrested at US ...

Reuters — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:01:29 -0400

The joint operation is further evidence of a more cooperative relationship between the US and Mexico in cracking down on drug cartels responsible for taking billions of dollars' worth of narcotics across the border every year.

Derek Loville (Former NFL Player) Reportedly Part of ...

Chris Yuscavage — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:56:27 -0400

But according to reports, Loville, now 47, spent his recent years facilitating large drug deals in Arizona and played a part in a huge international drug trafficking ring that also specialized in sports gambling and money ...

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