Organized Crime

Russians fear mafia war for top gangster's empire after his death

6 Feb 2013

Rival clans are said to be eagerly eyeing property and businesses once overseen by Aslan Usoyan, better known by his mob name "Grandpa Hassan". Usoyan oversaw a vast empire that was particularly...

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Violence erupts in Montreal as mafia boss Vito Rizzuto returns

27 Jan 2013

The killings of two close associates of a jailed mobster 11 weeks apart confirmed Montreal's fears that the return of a reputed mafia don has unleashed an underworld power struggle and settling of...

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Tough laws force Japan's yakuza to change their ways

22 Jan 2013

It's tough being a hood in Japan these days as laws that went into effect in late 2011 begin to bite gangsters hard.

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Yuen Long crackdown on triads leads to 93 arrests

8 Dec 2012

Ninety-three people have been rounded up in a crackdown on two triad factions during which an unlicensed pub in a Yuen Long factory was busted.

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Macau ex-gang boss arrested over alleged plot to kill

25 Nov 2012

Macau police have arrested a former right-hand man of "Broken Tooth" Wan Kuok-koi a week before the gangster's release from prison.

Chan Yuet-bo, who had been a senior detective with the...

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Spanish police raid Chinese money-laundering mob

17 Oct 2012

Spanish police arrested 60 people in raids on Chinese mobsters and accomplices, including a Spanish porn star, suspected of laundering money from prostitution and extortion, authorities said.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Briefs, September 19, 2012

Ashraf vows to pursue Zardari corruption case

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Macau casino 'crime watchdog' is shut down

A US-based website which pledged to lift the lid on organised crime in Macau's casinos has been shut down after just seven months. Casinoleaks-Macau.com said it would expose "dangerously weak"...

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'Godmother of cocaine' dies in ride-by shooting, a tactic she invented

She lived as the "godmother of cocaine", ruthlessly ordering scores of bloody murders and violent revenge attacks as she plotted the course of Miami's infamous drug wars.

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Casino chiefs fearful after run of attacks

Casino executives in Macau have boosted their personal security after one of the city's most colourful gaming bosses was maimed in a vicious gang attack and three casino customers were murdered in...

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Sun Yee On crackdown was six years in the making

A Shenzhen police crackdown last week on a gang linked to Hong Kong's Sun Yee On triad was six years in the making. And it has cost some officials their jobs because of their suspected ties to...

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HK$300,000 on offer in hunt for murderer

Police are offering a HK$300,000 reward in a hunt for a mainlander accused of killing his former girlfriend and her boyfriend in front of her eight-year-old son and elderly mother in Hong Kong six...

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