Global Mafia

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GLOBAL MAîlA
An exposé of today's worldwide megacrime.
Praise for Global Mafia
A lot has changed on the organized crime scene in Canada — and around the world — over the past decade: today there is a vast tapestry of organized crime gangs operating in Canada, of which the old mafia is but one small part. Global Mafia admirably brings together the intricate strands which make up organized crime in the 1990s: the Sicilian, Calabrian, and American mafias, the Russian mob, the Vietnamese and Chinese gangs, bikers, the Colombian cartels, and others. The various mobs often work together and while their reach is worldwide, Canada is stage center in this fascinating exploration of these international syndicates.
— JAMES DUBRO, author of Mob Rule, Dragons of Crime, and three other books on organized crime.
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GLOBAL MAîlA
An exposé of today's worldwide megacrime.
Praise for Global Mafia
A lot has changed on the organized crime scene in Canada — and around the world — over the past decade: today there is a vast tapestry of organized crime gangs operating in Canada, of which the old mafia is but one small part. Global Mafia admirably brings together the intricate strands which make up organized crime in the 1990s: the Sicilian, Calabrian, and American mafias, the Russian mob, the Vietnamese and Chinese gangs, bikers, the Colombian cartels, and others. The various mobs often work together and while their reach is worldwide, Canada is stage center in this fascinating exploration of these international syndicates.
— JAMES DUBRO, author of Mob Rule, Dragons of Crime, and three other books on organized crime.
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A $750 billion-a-year business
The "global village" concept takes on a whole new meaning when considered in light of recent worldwide criminal activity. Organized crime has no country. Be they Italian mafia, Japanese Yakuza, Russian Thieves, Colombian cartels, or Chinese triads, organized crime groups work in concert across language barriers, datelines, and borders to manage a vast underworld empire. Their business is drugs, money laundering, fraud, and the arms trade. And it's worth $750 bUiion a year.
Global Mafia looks at each major group, considering both its history and recent cases illustrating its role in the larger criminal networks. Organized crime experts Antonio Nicaso and Lee Lamothe investigate all of the familiar mafias—La Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia, Triads, Colombian cartels—plus the less well-known groups—the 'ndrangheta. Tongs, Yakuza, White and Black Russian mafias—and uncover shocking anecdotal evidence of their cross-poUinating activities. New, never-before-published information on police stings and criminal operations and up-to-the-minute facts about some of the world's most appalling crimes are exposed in stark detail.

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Most extraordinary for Canadian readers wiU be revelations about Canada's role in the international business of crime. Canada's borders, so easily penetrated, and Canada's money restrictions, so lax, make this country a haven for organized crime. Canada is central to the international crime wave, as Global Mafia proves time and time again.
Explosive and informative. Global Mafia reveals the frightening, worldwide context of organized mega-crime. Vissza