organized crime
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Spain’s resort city of Marbella has been a center for international organized crime since the 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
She cited a decision this week by Ecuadorean officials to eliminate judges from a specialized judicial unit focused on anticorruption and organized crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“The real estate system of Albania is broadly connected with organized crime and with money laundering,” Qori said.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
This is "a fairly new phenomenon in Bolivia," a "very safe country until a few years ago," Joaquin Chacin, an investigator specializing in organized crime, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
But over the decade following the riot, gangs and organized crime continued to operate unchecked by the mayor, angering enough citizens that Thompson was voted out in 1931, never to hold office again.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
