Global Organized Crime: Hearing Before the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, January 31, 1996, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996 - 148 pages |
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Page 92 - Brookings, he served as dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh...
Page 42 - AND DISCUSS SOME ISSUES RELATED TO RUSSIAN, EASTERN EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE GROUPS THAT ARE A CONCERN TO THE FBI, AS WELL AS THIS COMMITTEE. IT IS THE FBI'S BELIEF THAT THE EMERGENCE IN THE UNITED STATES OF THESE VERY DANGEROUS, CRIMINALLY DIVERSE AND WELL ORGANIZED GROUPS...
Page 74 - The deterioration of central controls since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has led to the hair-raising possibility of unauthorized sales of nuclear components and materiel to terrorists and other criminals. By 1993. Germany had arrested over 100 people Involved in smuggling nuclear components from the former Soviet Union. Ukraine, with its diverse nuclear establishment, was a major source of nuclear-related dual-use materials, including heavy water, zirconium, and hafnium from its Dneprodzerzhinsk...
Page 76 - Russian criminal code is sufficient to prosecute the "fat cats" if the police, the prosecutor's office, and the judiciary are adequately paid and protected. The Duma and other legislative bodies in the NIS should introduce the doctrine of conflict of interest into administrative law and pass an ethics code that applies to all public servants. The Prosecutor-General's office and regional prosecutors should be allowed to proceed against mob leaders, whose names as a rule are well known. This can be...
Page 67 - Kholodov published a series of startling exposes of military corruption and was about to testify before a Duma committee when he was assassinated in October 1994 ' According to reports in the Russian media. Central Bank officials in Moscow have been involved in fraud and forgery that have cost the Russian taxpayer over $350 million dollars. Although charges were filed, no convictions have been made. Today, the American media ii reporting on a largescale scam in which mafia-controlled Russian banks...
Page 9 - Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I have a prepared statement that I would like to read.
Page 105 - In 1960, this figure rose to ninety, and with the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the number grew to 192.
Page 70 - Turks play an important role by manning the bridge between drug manufacturers in Asia and markets in Western Europe. Russia is also becoming a transit point for heroin coming from the Golden Triangle of the Far East (the Burma-Thailand-China border region). The Russian mob has established...
Page 5 - ... when he has a large organization that is a very big threat to us. I have probably talked too long and there are a lot of questions about international organized crime, so I would like to open it up for any questions that you may have. [The prepared statement of Mr. Moody follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF JIM E. MOODY, DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ON BEHALF OF FBI DIRECTOR LOUIS J. FREEH, I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TESTIFY BEFORE...
Page 75 - Italian mafiosi were reselling them to Libyans. Transshipments of nuclear materials were made to Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Sweden, but the direct route is even easier. Former PLO official Shaaban boasted in a May 1994 newspaper interview that be had purchased two neutron bombs, hiding one in a desert in Southern Jordan and another in Southern Lebanon. Shaaban declared that his people are going to attack Tel Aviv and West Jerusalem with these u William C. Potter, 'Nuclear Exporti From the Former...