The fifth annual Towards a More Safe and Secure World leadership program will see international participants from 56 countries meet with their counterparts in 16 U.S. cities to increase efforts to combat transnational crime and counter terrorism. Keep Reading
Two-thirds of countries are not effectively prosecuting terrorist financing, which extends well beyond the banking and financing sectors, to include construction, drug trafficking and even the used car trade. Keep Reading
Authorities in Mexico published Purple Notices warning of two methods for smuggling firearms and ammunition across the US-Mexico border. The first consisted of placing bullets in the hidden compartment of car seats, the second involved dismantling firearms in order to ship them via express courier services. Keep Reading
While money laundering is an offense in its own right, it is also related to other forms of serious and organized crime. Professional money launderers’ core business model is to perform money-laundering services on behalf of other criminal groups. Keep Reading
Bonavolonta has held a variety of leadership, operational, and investigative positions throughout his FBI career. He entered on duty in May 1996. Keep Reading
There are about 160 ’Ndrangheta cells with roughly 6,000 members. They specialize in kidnapping and political corruption, but also engage in drug trafficking, murder, bombings, counterfeiting, gambling, frauds, thefts, labor racketeering, loansharking, and alien smuggling. Keep Reading
The UK Security Minister says the current Brexit deal includes a promise to co-operate on security after leaving the EU and that “a no-deal situation would have a real impact on our ability to work with our European partners to protect the public." Keep Reading
The investigation discovered multiple drug-trafficking organizations in Honduras and elsewhere worked together, and with support from certain prominent public and private individuals. Keep Reading
