To everyone's knowledge, this illegal "ring-fencing" of Greece will not lay the matter to rest as there will always be other migrant routes, such as the one to Italy through Albania or via the Ionian Sea.
Though that headline may read like it was ripped from the script of a premium cable drama about the entertainment industry's seedy underbelly, Bryan Zuriff, an executive producer on Showtime's Hollywood fixer drama "Ray Donovan," really did plead guilty to running an illegal gambling ring with connections to the Russian mob.
The case involved an illegal gambling ring in Nevada.
Martin made the money through an illegal gambling ring he ran at local auto plants.
He also named his son, Dino Bouterse, 38, convicted here in 2005 of leading a cocaine and illegal weapons ring, as part of the command of a new Counter-Terrorism Unit. Counter-Terrorism Unit
On Monday, a federal grand jury indicted five people from Virginia and one from Ohio on charges of running an illegal OxyContin ring.
The state commissioner of agriculture was arrested on federal charges of taking money from an illegal cockfighting ring to protect it from law enforcement.
Three months after violent race riots shook the Southern Italian city of Rosarno, Italian authorities on Monday broke up an illegal immigration ring in the area, arresting 31 people from Italy and North Africa and seizing 20 businesses and farmland valued at $13.3 million.
The arrests were not directly tied to the riots, in which about 50 people were wounded, but authorities said the illegal immigration ring contributed to the tensions in the area.
Acting on a tip-off about an illegal gambling ring, about 50 officials, police and even soldiers raided the Jomtien and Pattaya Bridge Club, founded in 1994, on 3 February.
The husband of one Mr. Banzer's nieces faces charges of cloning cellular phones and running an illegal gambling ring, and three trial judges who acquitted him on drug charges last year are themselves now being investigated on corruption charges.
