3 h. ago Crime boss dubbed 'Pablo Escobar' caged alongside Scots lieutenant continued running empire from jail

Christopher Welsh Junior ran an organised crime group which supplied cocaine and heroin worth tens of millions of pounds to Scottish gangster John Reid.

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18 h. ago 'Scouse Escobar' who ran £200m drugs plot with dad was caught out by lavish stag do

Christopher Welsh Jr was the head of an organised crime group with his dad Welsh Sr, supplying cocaine and heroin worth tens of millions of pounds to Glasgow gangs

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2 d. ago Police seize £500k worth of cannabis in operation tackling 'Western Balkan' organised crime

Over 700 plants were seized from six separate farms

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3 d. ago Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state | Jonathan Freedland

The pattern is inescapable – with just one caveat: organised crime bosses occasionally display more honourBehold Donald Corleone, the US president who behaves like a mafia boss – but without the principles. Of course, one hesitates to make the comparison, not least because Donald Trump would like it. And because the Godfather is an archetype of strength and macho glamour while Trump is weak, constantly handing gifts to America’s enemies and getting nothing in return. But when the world is changing so fast – when a nation that has been a friend for more than a century turns into a foe in a matter of weeks – it helps to have a guide. My colleague Luke Harding clarified the nature of Vladimir Putin’s Russia when he branded it the Mafia State. Now we need to attach the same label to the US under Putin’s most devoted admirer.Consider the way Trump’s White House conducts itself, issuing threats and menaces that sound better in the original Sicilian. This week the president said that a dea...

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3 d. ago Crackdown on cannabis cultivation sees £48m worth of drugs seized

Police have seized 48,328 cannabis plants worth an estimated street value of £48,328,000 and arrested 242 people in a major crackdown on organised crime across England and Wales.

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6 d. ago Head of crime gang who ran huge drug network handed £100,000 bill while in prison

Nicholas Gale, 34, was the 'head of the organised crime group' from which a seizure of cocaine worth £1.2m was made

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1 week ago Europe's most wanted woman arrested: 'Cocaine queen' influencer who fronted stray dog charity before going on the run after drug trafficking allegations is caught after four years

Tania Gomez, 32, was apprehended in Lanzarote last week after fleeing Sweden in 2021. Dubbed Europe's 'cocaine queen,' Gomez is thought to be connected to an organised crime group in Stockholm.

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1 week ago Drug gang used flights from France to drop £4m worth of cocaine in English countryside

Police say organised crime group would fly planes from Cherbourg, France, to southern England

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1 week ago Romanian prosecutors allowed Andrew and Tristan Tate to fly to US but say they must return when summoned – live

The brothers, who are dual UK-US nationals, were given a travel ban in December 2023 amid trafficking allegationsRomanian media Adevarul and Antena 3 CNN are both reporting from their sources that the pair are expected to report for a court hearing in Bucharest in late March.The statement from the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism says that “the two defendants of dual British-American citizenship” have been allowed to travel, but have to report when summoned and any violation of this condition could lead to stricter restrictions on their movement. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid

Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cutsEach month Su Myat secretly crosses the border from Thailand into Myanmar to report on her conflict-ridden homeland, covering military airstrikes and illegal scam compounds that have become a haven for organised, transnational crime.The editor of the online news outlet ThanLwinKhet News, Su is part of a community of exiled journalists from Myanmar whose organisations are facing an existential crisis due to US president Donald Trump’s decision to freeze foreign aid. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gang member who hid £300k MDMA haul as bath salts ordered to pay just £1

Abigail Kavanagh, 25, from Cardiff, was arrested as part of an operation by regional organised crime unit Tarian into the importation of class A drugs,

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2 w. ago The organised crime gangs fuelling Britain's flytipping surge: How criminals are using Facebook to dupe homeowners by offering to get rid of their waste on the cheap

The number of incidents where entire tipper lorry loads of waste have been illegally dumped in England has increased by 150 per cent in the last 10 years.

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2 w. ago Huge axe and cannabis farm found crackdown on organised crime in Greater Manchester area

Numerous plants were discovered alongside growing equipment and a hand-axe

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3 w. ago Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Tate brothers

Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime and money laundering

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3 w. ago Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate

Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime and money laundering

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