05/09 – Asia: Sextortion ring dismantled by police. In June 2022, INTERPOL launched a public awareness campaign warning Internet users of a dramatic increase in digital extortion threats. […] A joint investigation supported by INTERPOL has so far linked the syndicate to 34 cases, with 12 arrests.
05/06 – Mexico’s Bold Move Against Gun Companies. Of 193 member states of the United Nations, Mexico has the fifth-largest number of unregistered firearms in civilian hands, behind the United States, India, China, and Pakistan. This availability of firearms and the violence it enables have major destructive consequences. In Mexico, guns are the weapon of choice in 70 percent of total homicides and 60 percent of homicides committed against women. Guns are also the main tool in homicides of young people.
07/09 – Takedown of online investment fraud responsible for losses of several million euros. With the support of Eurojust, authorities in Finland, Germany, Belgium and Latvia have succeeded in striking a blow against the operators of various fraudulent online investment platforms that have defrauded victims from 11 different countries out of several million euros.
08/09 – Raids on black market cannabis farms uncover human trafficking victims. (video). As more states legalize cannabis, law enforcement officials say they are seeing an uptick in black market operators using suspected human trafficking victims to grow and trim marijuana sold in legal dispensaries.
08/09 – Colombia to combat money laundering in anti-drugs fight -police director. Colombia will focus its anti-drug fight on weakening traffickers’ financial power and will continue forced eradication of coca crops, the country’s new national police director said in his first interview with international media.
11/09 – Are our numbers up? Cape Town’s 26, 27 and 28s gangs up the ante by becoming tech-savvy. While the 26s, 27s and 28s gangs have been committing violent crime for decades, they are also evolving and upping the ante in Western Cape, South Africa’s gangsterism capital.
