Antonio Maria Costa: Executive Director, UN office on drugs and crime

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Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime discusses about the growing convergence at many levels between the wars on narcotics trafficking and terrorism, a convergence that could be seen across a range of issues of UK troops in Afghanistan. He states that even a modest charge of a few percentage points on drug cargoes valued in the aggregate at billions of dollars, generates an annual income to terrorists that is much greater than the money frozen worldwide by means of the Financial Action Task Force and other money laundering controls.

United Kingdom, Police Protection, Terrorist Control, Security Mgmt-Kidnapping & Terrorism, Interview, Terrorism, Drug traffic, Drug dealing, Costa, Antonio Maria

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Crossbroder Balkan crime

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Bulgaria has appointed a conference, eThe Economy of Crime: Grey Sector, Trafficking, CorruptionE, to examine the growth of crossborder crime and related corruption in southeast Europe in Sofia in November 2002. This conference has assessed the ways in which the Yugoslav wars throughout the 1990s promoted the development of regional criminal networks and are taking efforts for curbing crossborder crime.

Commodity & service prices, Bulgaria, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Prices and rates, Criminal investigation, Company pricing policy

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Crime groups turn to terrorism in Rio de Janeiro

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The major factors such as a change in the statee's government and the growing power of the drug traffickers have contributed to the increase in violence in Rio de Janeiro over the past year. The violence in the city demonstrates the willingness of local criminal groups to engage in terrorist activities to intimidate the state when faced by a threat to their unlawful operations.

Brazil, Military aspects, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (City), Government, Resistance to, Government resistance

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