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NY trial starts for Mexico escape-artist drug lord 'El Chapo' under tight security
The New York trial began Monday under razor tight security for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, accused of running the world's biggest drug cartel and spending a quarter of a century smuggling more than 155 tons of cocaine into the United States. Guzman, one of the ...
Fukuoka enlists artificial intelligence in fight against organized crime
Advances in artificial intelligence have come along in leaps and bounds in recent years, prompting police in Fukuoka and Kyoto to look into ways of using the technology to tackle organized crime. The Fukuoka Prefectural Police in Kyushu face a particularly daunting task, with some ...
Japan Amateur Boxing Federation President Akira Yamane has quit following numerous allegations of misconduct, including pressuring referees to fix matches and misuse of grant money.
An incoming member of Mexico's Congress was kidnapped at gunpoint Tuesday, an official said, the latest violent episode surrounding the July 1 elections, the bloodiest in the country's history. Azucena Rodriguez Zamora, who was elected to the lower house of Congress for the eastern state ...
Italy's Salvini declares war on Mafia after migrant worker deaths
Italy's hard-line Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Tuesday declared war on Mafia networks exploiting foreign agricultural workers after 16 died in two crashes in the country's south. The two nearly identical crashes, which came within 48 hours of each other outside the city of Foggia ...
Japanese-style plea bargaining debuts but authorities fear spread of false testimony
Japan on Friday introduced a bargaining system as part of an overhaul of its criminal investigation and trial systems, while battling concerns the new practice could encourage suspects or defendants to make false statements that lead to miscarriages of justice. The new bargaining system, which ...
In Japan, a high-profile former gangster struggles to go straight
Everyone loves a tale of redemption. Unfortunately, this isn't going to be one of them. In a previous column, I introduced a man who had gone from being a greedy, violent, self-centered boss of an organized crime syndicate to become a compassionate male nurse. It's ...
The number of crime syndicate members in Japan fell to a record low of 34,500 in 2017, down for the 13th straight year, amid stronger police crackdowns, National Police Agency data showed Thursday. The figure dropped by about 4,600 from a year earlier to its ...
Russian billionaire Magomedov arrested on embezzlement charges
Russian authorities on Saturday arrested billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov on charges of embezzling more than $35 million, in one of the highest-profile prosecutions of a Russian tycoon in years. Magomedov denied the charges at a pre-trial hearing, where a judge ordered that he be held in ...
'The Outsider' scores a few hits among the misses
Netflix last month released a yakuza film starring Jared Leto titled "The Outsider" to critical disdain. And as much as I expected to hate the movie, I didn't. It's portrayal of the world of organized crime in Japan after World War II is not ...
Japan to allow plea bargaining from June amid overhaul of criminal justice system
The government on Friday decided to introduce the right to plea bargain on June 1 by putting into force a revised law on criminal proceedings. A decree approved by the Cabinet will allow plea bargaining in a variety of cases, including crimes related to drugs, ...
Japan looks to curb company establishment by organized crime groups
The Justice Ministry unveils measures to restrict the establishment of joint stock companies by organized crime syndicates in a move aimed at preventing fraud and money laundering.
