A European syndicate of the sadistic Sinaloa cartel, notorious for mass decapitations and brutal torture, is working with a Romanian gang running heavy goods vehicles in an effort to seize a share of Britain's lucrative cocaine market.
He flags testimony to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China that indicates that China is perhaps less concerned about Eastern European spam syndicates abusing its domain names than it is the activities of its own nationals.
The key is to find an open proxy server that everybody else, or even worse, Eastern European crime syndicates, are also not using.
The EU's law enforcement agency, Europol, has blamed South Asian and Eastern European crime syndicates, which are thriving due to the lack of government action in their own countries.
In 1996 the firm won exclusive rights to set up shell firms on the island, and within four years, 6,000 shell firms were registered there, some reportedly controlled by Eastern European crime syndicates and international drug cartels, according to international investigations and news accounts.
A source close to Team New Zealand's inner circle says that the Kiwi skipper Russell Coutts has received substantial offers from multiple European-based syndicates.
They are taken to the offices of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse, the biggest European crime syndicate.
SCMagazine reports "An Eastern European criminal syndicate has hacked into a small Australian business and stolen details of half a million credit cards from the company's network.
"There is still a challenging market environment even though there is a lot more going on," said Adam Welham, head of European equities syndicate at Barclays.
"It seems like it was a European-based syndicate - we don't exactly where - but Interpol and Europol are making good progress in trying to apprehend these particular perpetrators".
