Thursday, August 28, 2008
[IWS] EU ORGANISED CRIME THREAT ASSESSMENT (OCTA 2008) [28 August 2008]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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EUROPOL
Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA)
OCTA 2008: EU ORGANISED CRIME THREAT ASSESSMENT
http://www.europol.europa.eu/publications/European_Organised_Crime_Threat_Assessment_(OCTA)/OCTA2008.pdf
[full-text, 56 pages]
See PRESS RELEASE
The Hague, 28 August 2008
Top criminals wish to be seen as successful entrepreneurs
http://www.europol.europa.eu/index.asp?page=news&news=pr080828.htm
The Hague - The Netherlands.
Organised crime groups are making increased use of legal business structures to facilitate criminal activities and to launder criminal proceeds but also to get established in legal business.
"The ultimate goal of many top-level criminals is to be considered as successful entrepreneurs. These people leave the violent and aggressive crime to more primitive and less structured groups," says Max-Peter Ratzel, Director of Europol, referring to the findings of the 2008 Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA).
In general, the main organised crime groups are transnational, multi-ethnic and engaged in diverse criminal activities. This wider dimension gives them the possibility to run the production and distribution processes of entire criminal markets, optimising their profits and cutting out local and minor organised crime groups.
AND MORE....
See also http://www.europol.europa.eu/index.asp?page=news&news=pr080826.htm
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
EUROPOL
Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA)
OCTA 2008: EU ORGANISED CRIME THREAT ASSESSMENT
http://www.europol.europa.eu/publications/European_Organised_Crime_Threat_Assessment_(OCTA)/OCTA2008.pdf
[full-text, 56 pages]
See PRESS RELEASE
The Hague, 28 August 2008
Top criminals wish to be seen as successful entrepreneurs
http://www.europol.europa.eu/index.asp?page=news&news=pr080828.htm
The Hague - The Netherlands.
Organised crime groups are making increased use of legal business structures to facilitate criminal activities and to launder criminal proceeds but also to get established in legal business.
"The ultimate goal of many top-level criminals is to be considered as successful entrepreneurs. These people leave the violent and aggressive crime to more primitive and less structured groups," says Max-Peter Ratzel, Director of Europol, referring to the findings of the 2008 Organised Crime Threat Assessment (OCTA).
In general, the main organised crime groups are transnational, multi-ethnic and engaged in diverse criminal activities. This wider dimension gives them the possibility to run the production and distribution processes of entire criminal markets, optimising their profits and cutting out local and minor organised crime groups.
AND MORE....
See also http://www.europol.europa.eu/index.asp?page=news&news=pr080826.htm
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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