Singapore argues that its use of capital punishment - applied mostly for drugs trafficking offences - has stopped the growth of narcotics syndicates.
The syndicates that control narcotics production and distribution reap the profits from an annual turnover of $400 billion to $500 billion.
But the counterfeiting rackets are run by crime syndicates that also deal in narcotics, weapons, child prostitution, human trafficking and terrorism.
Cathy LaScola Nutley, N.J., Aug. 30, 2007 To the Editor: Dana Thomas says "counterfeiting rackets are run by crime syndicates that also deal in narcotics, weapons, child prostitution, human trafficking and terrorism".
However, those threats inherent in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems, and emanating from terrorists, ethno-cultural conflicts within and among states, from traffickers in narcotics and human beings, international organized crime syndicates, environmental degradation and natural disasters, and pandemics are numerous and dispersed.
Interpol, the international intelligence agency, which will also be present at the meeting, says most of this being driven by organised crime syndicates, who have moved from narcotics and guns onto wildlife.
Colvin said that at the time of that tip-off, the AFP had already begun investigating what it believed to be a syndicate that was recruiting couriers to import narcotics to Australia.
The Department of Justice handed down its largest ever RICO indictment in Puerto Rico on Wednesday, bringing charges against 105 members of a drug dealing syndicate that it claims controlled much of the narcotics trade in San Juan's public housing projects and nearby areas on the island.
The show premiered in the US 30 years ago and was ultimately syndicated in 77 countries, introducing viewers to two dapper undercover narcotics officers played by too-cool-for-school Don Johnson and hot-as-hell Philip Michael Thomas.
