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crime, organized| Illegal operations run like a large business. The best-known such organization is the Mafia. For the history of US organized crime, see gangsterism. Japanese gangsters are called yakuza. |
| In 1991 the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) entered into an arrangement for cooperation with Italian authorities, which resulted in the imprisonment of hundreds of Mafia-related gangsters in both countries over the next 12 years. In 1994 the FBI set up an office in Moscow to combat the international spread of organized crime. |
| The Italian Mafia (Sicily), Camorra (Naples), 'Ndragheta (Calabria), and Santa Corona Unita (Apulia) had combined annual sales 1995 of more than £10 billion, and about 25,000 full-time and 250,000 part-time employees (plus some 4,000 in prison). |
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| The ministers also discussed sentencing, wrongful convictions, legal aid, Aboriginal justice, the criminal use of guns, proceeds of crime, organized crime and drugs. Patrol officers and those who concentrate on other types of crime - whether violent crime, organized crime, or drug-related offenses - can help financial crimes investigators by remaining alert for check fraud paraphernalia, stolen or counterfeit identification documents, and other indicators of fraud activity during their routine arrest, search, and investigative activities. D'Amuro joined the FBI in 1979, and has worked on a wide array of criminal investigations, including white collar crimes, major property crimes, violent crime, organized crime, and terrorism. |