From 1997 through 2001, FBI Offices in Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Newark along with the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Customs Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States Secret Service, United States Postal Inspectors, the British Customs Service, as well as state and local authorities combined the resources of three separate investigations to jointly target a major international heroin trafficking organization primarily made up of individuals of Nigerian descent. These investigations identified subjects from West Africa involved in the importation of Southeast Asian heroin from Bangkok, Thailand through West Africa and Europe and then on to the United States. The members of the organization were also involved in money laundering and various financial fraud schemes including bank fraud, credit card fraud, passport fraud, and welfare fraud. Court authorized wiretaps conducted in each of the FBI Offices involved in the case provided a large degree of the evidence needed to charge the members of the organization
THAILAND ORGANIZE CRIME AND THE TAIWAN TRIADS
CRIME: Although the crime threat in Bangkok remains lower than that in many American cities, crimes of opportunity such as pick-pocketing, purse-snatching, and burglary have become more common in recent years. Travelers should be especially wary when walking in crowded markets, tourist sites and bus or train stations. Many American citizens have reported having passports, wallets, and other valuables stolen in Bangkok’s Chatuchak Weekend Market, usually by thieves who cut into purses or bags with a razor and remove items surreptitiously. Police at the Market usually refuse to issue police reports for foreign victims of theft, requiring them instead to travel several miles to the central Tourist Police office. Violent crimes against foreigners are relatively rare. However, there has been a recent upsurge in violent crime against tourists, including the murder of several independent travelers, on the southern islands of Phuket and Koh Samui. Independent travelers should exercise caution and stay in the vicinity of other travelers, especially in the beach areas of these islands.
Mafia War! (Asian Edition)
It's supposed to be the work of INTERPOL
and UNODC....
Better that the Singaporean government react
frimly against Triad businesses.
This is not a military topic