"By establishing a centralized database, this regulatory plan will greatly assist law enforcement in detecting and ferreting out transnational organized crime, multinational drug cartels, terrorist financing and international tax evasion," said James H. Freis Jr., director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which is a bureau of the Treasury and is known as Fincen.
Second, international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF are increasingly linking the aid they offer to poor countries to those countries' willingness to provide "good governance".The multinationals' involuntary cartel has its origin in America's 20-year-old Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which made it a criminal offence for American companies to bribe foreign officials.
The Sinaloa cartel is believed to be Mexico's main producer, partly because it has a reputation for being the world's most multinational and sophisticated cartel.
Museums say they have the best and most important art, but most really represent the taste of the wealthiest art collectors in the world, who are advised by a cartel of multinational art galleries.
He said of the cartels, "They're multinational, savvy, borderless entities.
It challenges our basic concepts of politics, economics and even religion, recounting how criminality mutates into warfare, how drug cartels mutate into multinational corporations, and how gangsters mutate into politicians and even into religious prophets.
Positing that multinational corporations have created a "cartel economy" bent on world domination — and that our major financial and governmental institutions are using military force to further that goal — the film juggles multiple issues with more scare mongering than substance.
Heroin traffickers tend to operate more like highly compartmentalized terrorist cells than multinational corporations or the sprawling Colombian cartels of the Pablo Escobar era.
Would criminal cartels vie with legal multinationals to distribute their wares, creating further armed conflict?
In the 1990s, Colombia's Cali cartel was a massive, multinational drug syndicate with informants and connections in governments around the globe.
