Criminal activities that are planned and controlled by powerful groups and carried out on a large scale.
the new leaders are determined to tackle corruption and organized crime
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- We must take concrete steps to combat corruption and organized crime.
- Crucial components of the project include an all-out drive to confront organized crime.
- For example, in the United States organized crime gangs have used pizza parlours to mask proceeds from heroin trafficking.
- This is a clear indication of the growing international concern about organized crime.
- The spread of organized crime has benefited from three recent trends.
- Any serious war on narcotics trafficking and money laundering has to open a war on organized crime.
- Prohibition led to gangland warfare and a permanent plague of organized crime.
- Drug trafficking is responsible for an estimated 30 to 40 percent of organized crime revenues.
- Through his interaction with these men, he began to question his involvement in the drug trade and organized crime.
- Money laundering is run by organized crime and the powers that oversee drug trafficking.
- The columnist exposed leaders of organized crime in Dublin and was shot to death in 1996.