Gang

A new study by the Open Society Foundation for Albania, presented in Tirana on Friday, reveals how organised crime, business, judiciary, and politics have been tied together for years in a complex relationship based on common interests and exploitation for mutual benefit.

Mexico on Nov. 16 undertook to focus more resources on the search for missing people, the number of which has grown dramatically in recent years as gang violence has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Police in London have expressed concern that the recent murder of a Romanian who was an alleged gangster could spark a turf war between rival Balkan trafficking gangs, battling over the market in sex workers and drugs in the British capital.

The Mediterranean migrant crisis is being fuelled afresh by criminal gangs making £1million a day smuggling over tens of thousands from as far away as Bangladesh, reported The Sun. 

An investigation by MPs found that while the number of war refugees from Syria crossing to Italy is going down, illegal immigrants from the poor Asian country are spiralling.

Twelve members of a criminal gang forcing Syrian children to beg on the streets were detained in an operation by the police on Sept. 11 in Istanbul. 

A “granny gang” of ageing Chinese women who terrorised people into paying debts by cursing, spitting and even stripping off and grabbing their victim’s genitals, have been imprisoned for up to 11 years, reports say.

Hüseyin Gülerce is a witness of the case against journalists working for the daily Cumhuriyet.

Gülerce is also the "informer-witness" who led to the arrest of the journalists of daily Sözcü and an arrest warrant against the newspaper's owner.

He was an important member of the Gülenist gang until the Dec. 17-25, 2013, probes targeting the government.

A money-lending gang masterminded by a 63-year-old and including four bank executives, has been unraveled by Greek police, reports said Thursday.

t least 28 prisoners died and 3 were injured during an uprising in a Mexico prison. The altercations between different groups started in the center for social rehabilitation in the morning, reported by Reuters.

The reason for the conflicts is the constant struggle for power and competition between rival gangs inside the prison.

Criminal Albanian gangs ready to resort to “serious violence” have “considerable control” over the drug trafficking market in the UK, a National Crime Agency (NCA) report has revealed.

The gangs, which use London as their primary hub but are established across the whole of the UK, have been found to have a particular influence on the cocaine market.