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Organized Crime's Global Shadow |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Arnaud De Borchgrave |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,194 Words, 15,007 Characters |
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The astonishing proliferation of transnational crime syndicates and the global alliances they have forged now threatens to undermine democratic structures as well as the world's financial infrastructure. European intelligence services now estimate global money laundering at $1.3 trillion per annum, which is up $300 billion in one year.
Transnational crime is the world's fastest-growing business.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the new Russian Federation quickly downsized the KGB's bloated ranks by 100,000 agents. The majority of them drifted into the arms of organized-crime gangs.
Their expertise in foreign operations was much in demand. They brought to the table vast networks of foreign informants, worldwide contacts, even "sleeper" agents who were to be activated in cas...
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...ar ransoms to unidentified cybergangsters rather than run the risk of seeing their global computer network taken down.
The cybercriminals had penetrated triple "fire walls" and logged off weeks before the message--a warning flag not only to the banks but to law enforcement and citizens the world over--appeared on the bank's security chief's monitor: "NOW DO YOU BELIEVE WE CAN SILENCE YOU?"
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