Financial Crime Online

How about that? That certainly is a first time we heard that (or even thought of that). Members of a meth ring got busted this week, nothing new there. The proceeds of the drug sales were invested into 100 boxes of first-edition collectible comic books. Investigators say one title alone is worth $3,500 and the [...]

What better way to understand how criminals work than to have a honest chat with them? Small problem; not a lot of people with that shady profession will share intimate details on how they run their businesses. Every now and then we hear it from the horse’s mouth, whether it is through an interview, confession, [...]

The Daily Telegraph (DT) cited from a British confidential report on the situation in Afghanistan. The growing opium will prolong the Taliban insurgency and therefor the deployment of troops. Although publically he is widely supported, doubts are growing whether president Karzai really is in control. DT reported that Karzai does not take up arms against [...]

Another high profile murder in Mexico. Politicians, police chiefs and officers; drug gangs kill whoever threats them in Mexico. Today a mayor in Western Mexico was shot to death. President Calderon’s crackdown on drug gangs has resulted in massive bloodshed. This year, according to NY Times estimates, more than 1.400 people have been killed in [...]