New Mafia Goes Global. / Frank Viviano.
by Viviano, Frank; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 61Institutions. Publisher: San Francisco Chronicle, 2001ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Illegal aliens -- Smuggling | Mafia | Organized crime -- International aspects | Smugglers | Transnational crimeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "By any standard, the journey of Mohammed Hodrat from Tajikistan to Western Europe is an astonishing testament to international financing, state-of-the-art communications and pinpoint logistics. It is also, say European law authorities, the signature of an unprecedented organized crime network--a worldwide archipelago of 'mafias,' loosely modeled on the Sicilian original, equipped with the latest tools of high technology and linked in powerful underworld alliances that stretch across the Earth. The chief business interests of the Mafia Archipelago are drugs, arms, and increasingly, a multibillion-dollar traffic in human beings that carried Hodrat and three members of his family to Italy." (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) This article focuses on the Mafia Archipelago and examines their growing practice of trafficking human beings.
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Originally Published: New Mafia Goes Global, Jan. 7, 2001; pp. A1+.
"By any standard, the journey of Mohammed Hodrat from Tajikistan to Western Europe is an astonishing testament to international financing, state-of-the-art communications and pinpoint logistics. It is also, say European law authorities, the signature of an unprecedented organized crime network--a worldwide archipelago of 'mafias,' loosely modeled on the Sicilian original, equipped with the latest tools of high technology and linked in powerful underworld alliances that stretch across the Earth. The chief business interests of the Mafia Archipelago are drugs, arms, and increasingly, a multibillion-dollar traffic in human beings that carried Hodrat and three members of his family to Italy." (SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE) This article focuses on the Mafia Archipelago and examines their growing practice of trafficking human beings.
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