scholarly journals CERTAIN DIRECTIONS OF COUNTERING CRIMES RELATED TO DRUG TRAFFICKING COMMITTED BY CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhii Pavlenko
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Criminal Organizations

scholarly journals Analysis of Drug Trafficking and Corruption Nexus in Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Salawati Mat Basir ◽  
Mohammad Naji Shah Mohammadi ◽  
Elmira Sobatian
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Its Region ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Drug Related Problems ◽  
Control Drug ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Drug Traffickers

<p>The main objective of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is economic development in its region but directly unproductive profit seeking activities such as drug trafficking is the prominent barrier to reach this goal. All members spend lots of money to fight against drug trafficking, as all of them suffer from drug addiction and drug related problems. The first step to cope with this problem is to identify the factors and incentives that make this region vulnerable for drug trafficking activities and to unearth what makes this region a haven for drug traffickers. A bulk of literature supports the concept that organized criminal organizations are not able to operate when there are not any forms of corruption since they are strongly interrelated. In this paper, we analyze the link between drug trafficking and corruption in ECO region in order to develop ECO strategies to hamper and interrupt these transnational crimes. Corruption has posed major challenges to the efforts taken to control drug and also has seriously damaged the ECO members’ image in international community. One of the practical solutions is the responsibility of ECO organization in implementing rule of law in the region. Undoubtedly, fighting against corruption in ECO region is a joint responsibility of international and intercontinental community and this responsibility requires collective action and cooperation among countries in the region.</p>

Transnational Cybercrime

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-128
Author(s):  
Barbara Jane Holland
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Transnational Crime ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Criminal Networks ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Individual Segment ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Organized Crime Groups

Organized crime groups are involved in all kinds of transnational crimes. Lawbreakers can victimize people in other countries through international scams and cyber theft of financial information. Moreover, much of the harm from transnational crimes stems from activities of formal criminal organizations or criminal networks that connect individuals and organizations who undertake specific criminal acts together. According to the United Nations, annual proceeds from transnationally organized crime activities amount to more than $870 billion dollars with drug trafficking producing the largest individual segment of that total amount. One of the most difficult forms of transnational crime to combat is cybercrime. This article will review transnational cybercrime and it's technology.

scholarly journals Esquizoanálisis y necropoder: la representación del (narco) capitalismo y la violencia en la narconarrativa mexicana reciente.

Sincronía ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol XXV (79) ◽  
pp. 282-299
Author(s):  
Gerardo Castillo-Carrillo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Drug Cartels ◽  
Central Purpose

In this writing, under the precepts of schizoanalysis (Deleuze & Guattari) and necropower (Mbembe), it will be reviewed that the drug trafficking novel focuses on reproducing two discursive constants exposed in a customary way by official institutions (government, media, entertainment industry, etc.): (narco) capitalism and violence. As a central purpose, I will analyze in what way in this narrative the systematic terrorism exercised by the drug cartels through their economic power, who, acting as large transnational corporations, can corrupt all social strata, thus establishing themselves as the supreme socius; thus evidencing that these criminal organizations fragment, control and transgress public space.

scholarly journals Architectures, spaces, and territories of illicit drug trafficking in Colombia and Mexico

2020 ◽  
pp. 174165902091021
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Aschner ◽  
Juan Carlos Montero
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Crop Fields ◽  
Drug Trafficking Organizations ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Bidirectional Relationship ◽  
Drug Economy ◽  
Illicit Drug Trafficking

This research applies an interdisciplinary approach to the bidirectional relationship between illicit drug trafficking activities (specifically, cocaine and opioid trafficking in Colombia and Mexico) and the architectures, spaces, and territories in which they are located. Certain spaces that determine or are determined by the actions of drug trafficking organizations are described, analyzed, and classified based on various methodologies and the use of academic, official, and press information. In addition, case studies are reconstructed using architectural and geographic representation mechanisms to exemplify and illustrate the main arguments. The paper examines the three stages of activity that constitute the illegal drug economy: production (involving the placement of crop fields and laboratories), distribution (which entails exploitation of mobility infrastructure), and cross-cutting activities in relation to drug trafficking support spaces. The research provides an articulated interpretation of the various drug trafficking activities from a spatial perspective, the characterization of spaces that are important to criminal organizations and to the performance of their activities, and insights into the spatial thinking strategies and tactics associated with drug trafficking.

scholarly journals The Role of Organized Crime in Financing of Terrorism and Extremism

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu G Naumov ◽  
Yu V Latov
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Money Transfer ◽  
Financing Of Terrorism ◽  
Financial Transactions

In the modern world there is an active financial interaction of organized crime and terrorism (extremism). In some cases, transnational criminal organizations specializing in common crimes are becoming sponsors of terrorist and extremist organizations. More often, however, transnational terrorist and extremist organizations in search of income begin to actively participate in transnational criminal activities of a common criminal nature (drug trafficking, illegal money transfer). The article outlines the main regularities of the intertwining of criminal crafts and terrorist (extremist) activities, connected mainly with the ideas of radical Islam (Islamism). Specific examples of the activities of Russian law enforcement agencies in suppressing the financing of terrorism in the 2010s are given. It is concluded that in the coming years, Russia will be bringing closer and intertwining such institutions as Islamist terrorism, legal and illegal migration from Central Asia, smuggling of drug trafficking and criminal financial transactions (hawala).

scholarly journals Transnational Drug Trafficking: Studi Kasus Peningkatan Peredaran Narkotika di Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-291
Author(s):  
Bayu Arif Ramadhan ◽  
Muhammad Zulhair Achsin
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Drug Law ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Narcotics Control ◽  
Transnational Criminal Organizations

Drug trafficking is one of the numerous acts of transnational criminal organizations (TOC). Bangladesh upon the course of 2015- 2017, had suffered from the intense drug flow, especially from the type of Yaba/amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) in which peaked itself in 2015 by 211,2% percentage comparing to the previous years according to Drug Narcotics Control (DNC) reports and various media outlets. These flows were suspiciously running from the neighborhood country from Bangladesh, Myanmar, due to the unavailability of domestic yaba/ATS producers within Bangladesh. Contradict to the prevailing course of domestic anti-drug law in Bangladesh as embodied within the Drug Narcotics Act 2002, which tries to curb and prohibit whole activities regarding drug trafficking or flow. Therefore the writer was curious to conduct further research to examine the factors available to influence the intensity of drug trafficking and flow in Bangladesh upon 2015-2017.

scholarly journals Conectividade e territórios em rede do narcotráfico na Amazônia Brasileira

GeoTextos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aiala Colares Couto
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Result ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
National State ◽  
Traffic Area ◽  
Criminal Organizations

A presença de organizações criminosas que utilizam a região como uma área de trânsito ou rota de distribuição/abastecimento de cocaína de origem Andina demonstra esta relação fronteiriça do crime organizado. Trata-se da construção de territórios, ou mais ainda, representam relações de poder que se manifestam a partir das redes. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a conectividade do narcotráfico na região amazônica a partir da construção de territórios-rede. A metodologia adotada pauta-se em pesquisas bibliográficas e análise de documentos como os relatórios da Delegacia de Repressão ao Crime Organizado (DRCO-PA) e os relatórios de apreensão de entorpecentes da Polícia Federal; ambos os documentos se referem ao período de 2013 a 2015. O resultado da pesquisa aponta para o fato de que o narcotráfico em redes atende ao funcionamento de outras atividades criminosas ao mesmo tempo em que torna vulneráveis as fronteiras do Estado nacional. Abstract CONNECTIVITY AND TERRITORIES IN NETWORKS DRUG TRAFFICKING IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON The presence of criminal organizations that use the region as a traffic area or as a distribution/supply route of Andina origin cocaine, demonstrate this border-ish relation of organized crime. It is about the construction of territories, moreover, represent power relations, which manifest from the networks. This work has as objective to analyze the connectivity of narcotraffic in the amazon region from the construction of territories-network. The adopted methodology bases on bibliographic research and documents analysis such as; reports from the Delegacy of Repression to Organized Crime (DRCO-PA), narcotics apprehension reports from the Federal Police, both documents refer to the period from 2013 to 2015. The research result points to the fact that narcotraffic in networks attends to the functioning of other criminal activities at the same time where they make vulnerable the frontiers of the national state.

scholarly journals La captura del Estado peruano por el narcotráfico: el caso de los “cuello blanco del puerto”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Laura Zúñiga Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
The Government ◽  
Drug Traffickers

Since the 1980s, Peru has been a key player in the international drug trafficking scenario. The second largest producer of cocaine in the world and one of the countries where the main input, the coca leaf, is grown, the port of El Callao, being one of the main ports in Latin America due to its volume, is presumed to be where important cargoes of this drug leave from. The interception of communications in 2018 to investigate the violent organized crime that was taking place in that province revealed a network of judges, prosecutors, congressmen, and businessmen who were collaborating with drug traffickers, favoring them with impunity. This is not the first attempt to capture the Peruvian State for drug trafficking. In the 1990s, the government of Fujimori-Montesinos used drug trafficking money -among others- to bribe the country's highest authorities: military chiefs, the Supreme Court, the Attorney General, the media, and businessmen, all of whom were close to the government. The "narco-indulgence" of Alan García's second administration is another symptom of the seriousness of the collaboration of authorities from the highest spheres of the State with the powerful drug traffickers. The "double standard" of the Peruvian Criminal Policy against international drug trafficking is made evident, strong for the weak and weak for the strong: high penalties for small-scale traffickers and impunity for those at the apex of the criminal organizations. In addition, the enormous corrupting capacity of money from drug trafficking (money laundering) to capture members of the powers of the State: Executive, Legislative and Judicial, is of concern. The "case of the white collars of the port" is an empirical example of the intersection of judicial corruption -and its minions- within the Peruvian State and the organized crime criminal organizations. In order to conjure up these alliances, it is necessary to emphasize the punishment against the white-collar criminals of drug trafficking and their collaborators: lawyers, judges, prosecutors, etc., who use their profession as a cover to enrich themselves personally to the detriment of the common good.

scholarly journals De la fragmentación de las estructuras criminales a una proto-mafia: un análisis del Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) en Sudamérica

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-115
Author(s):  
Carolina Sampó ◽  
Marcos Alan Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Criminal Organization ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Small Organizations ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Opposite Process ◽  
Transnational Companies ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
New Generation

This article examines how the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) is structured as a particular model of criminal organization in South America, between what could be labelled as a third generation cartel and a proto-mafia. After the end of Colombian cartels, criminal organizations had to change the way they were structured. These changes resulted in a marked fragmentation that generated a multiplicity of small organizations in South America that managed to enter the drug trafficking market, driven by the “democratization” of cocaine. However, in the last decade Brazil has seen the opposite process. While in Latin America there was a shift from concentration to fragmentation - from the existence of cartels to the proliferation of a large number of small criminal structures - in Brazil, the PCC has ceased to be fragmented to concentrate and multiply its power, based on its presence and strength throughout the national territory, but also thanks to its transnationalization towards drug-producing countries such as Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. The article examines if we are facing the emergence of a new generation of criminal structures, which perceive themselves as transnational companies and which adopt a different form than traditional cartels, much more flexible and capable of adapting to change, which makes them similar to a mafia, although they have not yet established themselves as such.

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