Underworld Profits: The Rise of Southeast Asia’s Human Trafficking Crisis
Human Trafficking-Fueled Fraud on the Rise in Southeast Asia
By: CNN
Organized crime rings in Southeast Asia are generating nearly $3 trillion in illicit revenue annually through human trafficking-fueled fraud, according to Interpol. This revelation sheds light on the massive profits earned by these criminal cartels.
Interpol secretary-general Jurgen Stock disclosed that one international organized crime group alone makes $50 billion a year, contributing to the estimated $2 trillion to $3 trillion of illicit money flowing through the global financial system annually. To put this into perspective, France’s economy is valued at $3.1 trillion by the International Monetary Fund.
While drug trafficking remains a significant source of income for organized crime, criminal groups are utilizing smuggling networks to traffic humans, arms, and stolen goods, among other illicit activities, as stated by Stock.
Stock emphasized that the rise of online anonymity, new business models, and the impact of Covid have enabled organized crime groups to operate on a scale previously unimaginable. This shift has transformed what was once a regional crime threat in Southeast Asia into a global human trafficking crisis, affecting millions of victims worldwide.
According to Interpol, their operations in Asia have resulted in nearly 3,500 arrests and the seizure of $300 million in illegally obtained assets across 34 countries since 2021.
The Shift to Online Fraud
Over the past three years, survivor testimonies, NGO campaigns, and media reports have exposed a surge in online fraud gangs operating in Southeast Asia. Many of these groups exploit de facto slave labor to target individuals globally, including those in the United States.
Victims fr
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Underworld Profits: The Rise of Southeast Asia’s Human Trafficking Crisis
Judo – National Championship: Confirmation of internationals on the tatami
The members of the national team kept their throne yesterday at the Ankorondrano Gymnasium.
The juniors continue to tease the seniors at the national judo championship. Junior fighters beat several seniors and won the national title yesterday, during the first day of the national championship. Natacha Razafindrakalo, multiple champion in the under 48 kg category, did not do well to keep her title. The judokate from FJCA Antsirabe won in the final against Miangaly Raholiarimalala from Esca. She has justified that she remains the undisputed mistress of her category. She won the bronze medal at the African Games and has her eyes set on
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Judo – National Championship: Confirmation of internationals on the tatami
Abducted by Hamas – testifies to sexual abuse
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full screen Amit Soussana, is hugged by a friend after speaking to journalists in front of his destroyed house in Kibbutz Kfar Azza. Soussana was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7 last year. Photo: Leo Correa/AP/TT
The Hamas man waited until her period was over, forced her to wash – and assaulted her at gunpoint.
Four months after her release from captivity, Israeli Amit Soussana testifies about sexual abuse and torture during her 55 days as a hostage in Gaza.
– I was hoping someone would come and save me, she says to The New York Times.
Over 1,100 were killed and more than 200 taken hostage in the Islamist group Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7. The attack was the starting point for Israel’s bombardment and ground offensive against Gaza, which has s
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Ukraine – Russia war, last minute | Ukraine reveals that some soldiers were captured during the withdrawal from Avdiivka
One week after the second anniversary of the beginning of the war in ukrainekyiv forces have announced the withdrawal of their troops from the city of Avdiivka before the advance of the Russian soldiers.
“Taking into account the operational situation around Avdiivka, to avoid the encirclement and preserve the life
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On Putin’s weak point! Joe Biden’s calls not to attack Russian refineries are complete nonsense ᐉ News from Fakti.bg – World
The White House’s call to stop attacks on refineries on the territory of the Russian Federation due to a possible increase in oil prices is an absurd and doomed political decision of the administration of US President Joe Biden, commented in the editorial team of the American newspaper La Collina.
“During World War II, the Allies began bombing Nazi Germany’s oil refineries in 1942 and continued to do so with equal force until the end of the war in May 1945. This was the key to winning the war because it deprived the Germans to load tanks, bombers, armored vehicles and supply trucks. To win the war, Ukraine must also reduce the Kremlin’s ability to supply ammunition and weapons to front-line troops in Donbass and the Crimean peninsula”, underlines l ‘editorial.
And the Biden administration’s position of “putting the price of gasoline above the lives and sovereignty of Ukrainians” was called “terrible” by the authors of the material. “Biden’s success in the November elections cannot be considered more important than saving the lives of Ukrainians.”
The newspaper also pointed out that the White House did not condemn recent Russian cruise missile and drone attacks on civilian sites and Ukrainian energy infrastructure. And Biden still continues to hold the crucial weapons and ammunition that Ukraine needs to fight and win the war.
“Zelensky is fighting back with what he has: drones. And he’s hitting Russia where it hurts, in the wallet. He’s attacking the Kremlin’s global means of financing Putin’s war,” The Hil
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The date of Al-Ahly’s match against Tanzania’s Simba in the Champions League and the broadcast channel
The Al-Ahly team, led by Swiss Marcel Kohler, will conclude its training today, Thursday, in preparation for facing Tanzania’s Simba in the first leg of the African Champions League quarter-finals, which is scheduled to be held at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam.
The Referees Committee of the Confederation of African Football chose South African Tom Abu Nageel to officiate the first leg of the African Champions League quarter-final between Al-Ahly and Simba of Tanzania, and on video technology, the Mauritanian referee, Dahan Beda, will be present and assisted by Ahmed Imtiaz from Mauritius.
The draw for the African quarter-finals was a confrontation with Simba of Tanzania, with the winner of the two playing against the winner of Congolese Mazembe and Angola’s Petro Atletico in the semi-finals of the continental championship, whose title is held by Al-Ahly.
The date of Al-Ahly’s match against Tanzania’s Simba in the African Champions League
Al-Ahly is preparing to face Tanzania’s Simba in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals at eight in the evening (Cairo time) tomorrow, Friday, at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in
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Climate change is the new challenge for cohesion policy
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By 2027, 1.3 million jobs will be created in the green and digital transition sectors in European Union countries. In the long term, every euro invested through cohesion policy will be tripled by 2043, which equates to an annual rate of return of around 4%. These are two of the main indicators that emerge from the ninth report on cohesion policy published by the European Commission which highlights how climate change exacerbates regional inequalities, hitting the coastal, Mediterranean and south-eastern regions of the EU most heavily.
«Cohesion policy means a stronger and more resilient Union, new opportunities, new prosperity and a better quality of life – underlines Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms -. The recovery experience of Central and Eastern Europe over the l
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PDIP Submits 13 Lawsuits on 2024 Legislative Election Results to the Constitutional Court
– 2024-03-27 11:51:01
PDIP Secretary General Hasto Kristiyanto during a press conference at the PDIP Office, Jakarta, Monday (25/3/2024). (ANTARA/HO-PDIP)
jpnn.com – JAKARTA – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) filed a lawsuit over the dispute over general election results (PHPU) for the 2024 Legislative Election to the Constitutional Court (MK).
According to Member of the PDIP Legal Aid and Advocacy Agency (BBHA) Erna Ratnaningsih, there were 13 lawsuits
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The first lawsuit was filed for the Asimakopoulou leaks
– 2024-03-18 01:11:22
The first lawsuit was filed against the Greek State for the leak of e-mails from the Ministry of the Interior, which were used by MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou to send a newsletter.
The lawsuit is filed by a resident of the Netherlands who had submitted her information to be registered on the electoral roll in order to exercise her constitutional right to vote in the 2023 national elections.
However, “on 1.3.2024 she received in her personal email which she had submitted to the Home Office an email containing an unsolicited political communication from a member of the European Parliament with whom the claimant had absolutely no previous interactio
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The first lawsuit was filed for the Asimakopoulou leaks – 2024-03-18 01:11:22
Navas and Lukebakio, with prominence this international Tuesday
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Jesus Navas and Dodi Lukebakio were involved in Tuesday’s draws against Brazil and England, respectively. On the one hand, the Belgian attacker came off the bench in the draw against the English team at Wembley (2-2). Tielemans put the visito
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Navas and Lukebakio, with prominence this international Tuesday