Transcript Organized Crime - Open Scenario Repository

Organized Crime
S-1
MAFIA STRENGTHENS
• Expanded drug traffic
• Better organized (Cartels)
• Increasingly powerful (violence and
corruption)
• Wealth/influence
• Yawning national acceptance
S-2
NATION’S ABILITY TO
COMBAT MAFIA WEAKENS
• Law enforcement
– Lacks resources
– Disorganized
– Discouraged
• National ambivalence
– “Good Bandit” syndrome
– Trade is a profitable industry
• Legal system vulnerable
• Wide-spread corruption
S-3
EXTERNAL PRESSURE ON LATVIA
TO GAIN CONTROL FROM:
• EU and Nordic States
• U.S.
• Russia
• International Organizations
S-4
SITUATION
Government confronts crime by doing the
following:
• State of national emergency
• New draconian laws
• Broad foreign assistance
• Round-up and jail without bond for Mafia
leadership “53”
S-5
SITUATION (Continued)
Mafia responds:
• Publicized “Black Book” naming alleged corrupt
officials
• Assassination attempt on Interior Minister
• Kidnapping of Russian Police official and U.S. Drug
Advisor
• Attempts to foment ethnic turmoil
• Series of bomb threats to Swedish and Finnish ferry
service
S-6