Organised crime

'Coal Mafia' stokes India’s power crisis

14 May 2013

Seven shots rang out at a wedding reception in this sooty city in eastern India, and Suresh Singh, India’s “Coal King”, fell fatally wounded.

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Daniele Lo Presti: tale of sleaze, blackmail and organised crime

10 May 2013

It is more than two months since Italian paparazzo Daniele Lo Presti was murdered under Testaccio bridge in Rome. Lo Presti had been due to meet friends for a run on February 27 at 5.30pm, and had...

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Customs seize HK$24 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco

1 May 2013

The 9.3 million cigarettes and 90kg of tobacco were found in a container that arrived in Hong Kong from Port Kelang in Malaysia via Singapore.

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Six injured in Tsim Sha Tsui gang violence

22 Apr 2013

Five men were arrested, aged 25 to 43, after a brawl broke out involving at least two dozen people in Tsim Sha Tsui’s Minden Avenue.

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French robber takes hostages and blasts way out of jail

14 Apr 2013

A robber with links to organised crime blasted his way out of jail with explosives yesterday as he took prison wardens hostage in northern France, officials said.

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Smugglers cash in big on 'British' tobacco trafficked through Hong Kong

8 Apr 2013

Criminal syndicates are reaping huge profits by smuggling mainland tobacco through Hong Kong into Britain, where it is sold at a 5,000 per cent mark-up, a government source says.

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Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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Fleeced with the promise of sex

A gang of mainland women are using the promise of sex to trap and rob their victims in Yau Ma Tei, police warn.

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Hand of organised crime in ivory trade

Hong Kong is on the frontline in the fight against illegal ivory trafficking, and has a growing role as a transit point of the illicit trade, according to reports by the UN and a wildlife agency...

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Greater China second to India in seizure of tiger parts

A report on the illegal wildlife trade of tigers across Asia shows that between 2000 and 2012, greater China had the most seizures of tiger parts after India. There were a total of 654 seizures...

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SOCIETY

Bitter power struggle as election looms for Wo On Lok triad

In an eerie echo of the storyline of director Johnnie To Kei-fung 's hit 2005 movie Election, about a power struggle at the top of a triad gang, one of the city's most active triad groups - the Wo...

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MATCH FIXING

Interpol chief urges Singapore to arrest match-fixing suspect Dan Tan

The International police agency's secretary general, Ronald Noble, said in the Malaysian capital that Singapore needed to move on Tan Seet Eng, also known as Dan Tan, who has emerged as a central...

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AUSTRALIA

Doping widespread in Australian sport, says probe

The Australian Crime Commission released the findings of "Project Aperio" on Thursday, saying there was evidence of at least one potential case of match-fixing, widespread use of prohibited...

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