Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized CrimeSimon & Shuster, 1994 - 304 pagine No one has benefited more from the political changes of the 1990s than international organized come. Within the space of just three or four years, the world's great crime syndicates have joined in a planet-wide criminal consortium unlike any in history. A Pax Mafiosa has emerged - an agreement to avoid conflict, devise common strategy, and exploit the planet peaceably together - linking the American and Sicilian mafias, Russian organized crime, the Chinese Triads, the Japanese Yakuza, and Colombia's cocaine cartels. It threatens the liberty, security, and political integrity of the U.S., Europe, and all free societies. For these giants of the underworld, the creation of the European Community in Western Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Empire in the east have erased borders and made the commerce of crime easier than ever. In Thieves' World, outstanding international investigative reporter Claire Sterling traces the stunning advance of this global criminal enterprise since 1990: the proliferation of its criminal interests and growth of its investment capital to a quarter of a trillion dollars, its deepening penetration of worldwide money markets, its spreading powers of blackmail and corruption, and its alarming colonization of Western Europe and America. Above all, Claire Sterling describes the great shift of worldwide criminal attention to eastern Europe and Russia, showing how a country covering a sixth of the earth's land mass has been taken captive by the mafias of the world in partnership with Russian criminals, looting the nation systematically, crippling its economic capacity, contaminating its body politic, and suffocating its political will - all at enormous peril to theWest. |
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... investing in government bonds , real estate , building societies , hotels and casinos , finance and leasing companies ... investment , for instance , but they did find " clear structures of organized criminality " emerging in the eastern ...
... investing in government bonds , real estate , building societies , hotels and casinos , finance and leasing companies ... investment , for instance , but they did find " clear structures of organized criminality " emerging in the eastern ...
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... investing as much or more in several similar projects at the time . In 1991 , for instance , the Yamaguchi - Gumi showed up on the tiny Pacific island of Tinian , off Saipan . Through a Tokyo - based company , ASA Development and Investment ...
... investing as much or more in several similar projects at the time . In 1991 , for instance , the Yamaguchi - Gumi showed up on the tiny Pacific island of Tinian , off Saipan . Through a Tokyo - based company , ASA Development and Investment ...
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... investment capital , no questions asked - even the brother of the President of the United States . In 1991 the Kyodo News Service reported that Prescott Bush had received a quarter of a million dollars as a con- sultant for a Japanese ...
... investment capital , no questions asked - even the brother of the President of the United States . In 1991 the Kyodo News Service reported that Prescott Bush had received a quarter of a million dollars as a con- sultant for a Japanese ...
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Prologue | 13 |
Happy Families on Treasure Island | 21 |
After the Wall | 35 |
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