There's also counterfeiting, extortion, prostitution, gambling, and money laundering.
Although deeply involved in the methamphetamine business, Moreno González's cartel diversified its criminal agenda by controlling numerous "counterfeiting, extortion, kidnapping, armed robbery, prostitution and car dealership" rings in Michoacán and its neighboring states.
Divide students into small groups (or pairs, depending on the size of the class), and assign each one of the following terms to research and define: blackmail, bribery, counterfeiting, embezzlement, extortion, forgery, fraud, insider trading, money laundering, racketeering, securities fraud, and tax evasion.
"It is already engaged in extortion, prostitution, counterfeiting, sly grog, breaking and entering, illegal gambling and the smuggling of aliens, and small arms".
Examples of corrupt practices that facilitated counterfeiting of drugs included extortion of bribes from applicants for drug registration, deliberate over-supply of drug samples for resale, and acceptance of perquisites and material gifts from companies being inspected, to name a few [ 10].
The prosecution eventually turned over documents about von Habsburg, including parts of his F.B.I. informant file, his rap sheet, and a letter noting that, in addition to his arrests, he'd committed assault and extortion, sold counterfeit goods, and collected drug debts.
"Criminals don't contribute to our communities, they live off them and serious organised crime has an impact on everyone in Scotland, harming communities and legitimate businesses through drugs, extortion and counterfeit goods," he said.
And that is to say nothing about their other major sources of income -- from kidnapping to extortion, to counterfeits, to other crimes.
As well as drugs and terrorism, the D company is involved in gold smuggling, gambling, counterfeit currency, diamond trading, contract killing, extortion and film financing.
The crimes described in the indictment included the embezzlement of more than $1 million in pension benefits from a carpenters' union based in Tuckahoe, N.Y., extortion, labor racketeering, loan-sharking, illegal gambling operations, selling counterfeit money and gun trafficking.
Health systems in developing regions and emerging markets that lack transparency, regulatory control, and adequate law enforcement can result in public and private sector extortion and bribes that enable production and sale of counterfeit drugs [ 14, 15].
