Bordering on a crisis in global crime

If you’ve been watching BBC drama, McMafia, you know how hard it is for law enforcement to track and convict members of well-funded, cross-border organised-crime syndicates.

Bordering on a crisis in global crime

If you’ve been watching BBC drama, McMafia, you know how hard it is for law enforcement to track and convict members of well-funded, cross-border organised-crime syndicates, writes Rupert Bowen.

You’ll have learned the connections between smuggling drugs and illegal goods, money laundering, corruption, and human-trafficking. In McMafia, a chocolate vending machine is a backdoor into a container port’s freight-movement system. An IT expert has been coerced into helping exploit the system to steal a container of drugs.

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