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Zora Hauser

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Leverhulme Fellow, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge. DPhil in Sociology. Organised crime, mafias & more 🇨🇭🇮🇹

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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Wir sehen heute Probleme, die wir vor zehn Jahren noch nicht wahrgenommen haben – was aber nicht heißt, dass sie damals nicht bereits bestanden" Zusammen mit P. Neumann habe ich für @internationalepolitik.de über org. Kriminalität in Europa gesprochen 👇 internationalepolitik.de/de/deutschla...
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„Deutschland war lange ein Paradies für Geldwäsche“
Zora Hauser und Peter R. Neumann im Gespräch
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I don't know why The Economist has suddenly turned on Daron but I will say I recently enjoyed looking over this working paper from him which does not seem entirely unrelated. www.nber.org/papers/w35336
Automation and Repression
Daron Acemoglu, A. Arda Gitmez & Mehdi Shadmehr
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Working Paper 35336
DOI 10.3386/w35336
Issue Date June 2026
We consider a model of automation embedded in a political environment where workers can undertake a revolt (modeled as a global game), and greater inequality between capital and labor increases the likelihood of a revolt. Decentralized automation decisions raise the share of capital in national income and increase the likelihood of a successful revolt. A capitalist state (representing capital-owners) prefers to regulate the level of automation to lessen the threat of a successful revolt. The capitalist state can also redistribute to workers via the tax system or repress political action, thus creating greater room for further automation. We characterize the trade-off between the regulation of automation, redistribution and repression.
Our main result is a complementarity between automation and repression. Unless the threat of revolt is quite weak or the capital stock is very low, the capitalist state prefers repression. A higher capital stock in turn encourages more automation and thus more repression. In our full dynamic model with capital accumulation, in the long run the economy tends to repression (again unless the threat of revolt is very weak). We also prove that the same conclusions apply when firms can additionally invest in new labor-intensive tasks. Finally, we show that, starting in a democracy, capital accumulation and thus greater automation encourages the capitalists to support a coup against democracy and set up a repressive system.
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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
Really great paper by @carlobarone.bsky.social following up to the position statement by @aksoyundan.bsky.social, Manzo, Birkelund, and Raub on the occasion of the 25th EAS anniversary journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Turning the tide, or treading water? On the politics of sociological standards
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This commentary questions why progress toward more rigorous standards has been so slow 25 years after the creation of the EAS. It argues the problem is structural rather than cognitive: critical and expressive sociology dominate hiring, publishing, and editorial gatekeeping, and their success criteria are largely orthogonal to methodological rigor. It contends that more rapid progress will require not just moral suasion but a more aggressive capture of evaluation infrastructure — journals, funding panels, and editorial boards — alongside greater public visibility for cognitive sociology, since legitimacy in public debate is itself a resource in the competition for academic power.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So North Korea helps Russia, Russia helps Iran, Iran fights the USA, and the USA now hates South Korea and loves North Korea. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Russia is shipping explosives to Iran to bolster its missile and drone arsenal in U.S. war
The Russian shipments, which haven’t been previously reported, underscore the deepening strategic alliance between Moscow and Tehran.
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Beau Kilmer @beaukilmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🔥 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (@pnas.org) just published a Special Feature on illegal markets 9️⃣ papers examining human smuggling, money laundering, commercial sex, firearms, counterfeit goods, wildlife trafficking, fishing, tobacco & drugs www.pnas.org/topic/581
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The @economist.com slam on Daron Acemoglu chooses to cite Noah Smith and Tyler Cowen and Larry Summers as critics of his work and well, that tells me quite a lot of what I need to know about the merits of the piece. A very odd choice of article and weakly argued and written. Ah well...
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David Klaubert @davidklaubert.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Ein Drogenhändler macht kriminelle Geschäfte mit einem Anwalt und verpfeift seine Konkurrenz. Dann wird er erschossen – und sein Kontaktmann bei der Polizei löscht alle Chats. Unsere Recherche über die Untiefen des internationalen Rauschgifthandels www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...
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Über den Tod eines V-Manns der Frankfurter Polizei
Ein Drogenhändler macht Geschäfte mit einem Anwalt und verpfeift seine Konkurrenz. Dann wird er erschossen – und sein Kontaktmann bei der Polizei löscht alle Chats.
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Crime & (outlaw) motorcycle gangs: new research suggests different profiles depending on rank - particularly interesting is the split into violent and entrepreneurial profiles in nominees close to obtaining membership. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Revealing patterns of crime committed by affiliates of outlaw motorcycle gangs: A latent class analysis by rank and crime type
Over the past two decades, increasing scholarly attention has been paid to better understanding the range of criminal activities committed by affiliat…
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 17/07/2026
Breaking the Bloodline: Italy Enacts Landmark Law to Help Children Flee the Mafia www.occrp.org/en/news/brea...
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Breaking the Bloodline: Italy Enacts Landmark Law to Help Children Flee the Mafia
Italy's parliament has codified the "Free to Choose" program nationwide, offering permanent identity changes, safe houses, and comprehensive state support to mothers and minors escaping the grip of the...
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 26/06/2026
We think of them in separate categories, but police officers and soldiers share something essential with cartel members: 'They are all specialists in violence,' the sociologist @rgzepeda writes. In this incisive Essay, Gil explores what drives young men to pursue a career in violence
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Organised violence is a trade, whether legal or illegal | Aeon Essays
Every society depends on violence workers, but what makes young men take a job that risks their lives and harms others?
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
looks like a scene from a mafia movie
the steely countenance of Murat Yakin
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
💡🚨 We’re seeking a Postdoc for a project on the socio-economic factors driving youth hacking & cybercrime! We’re looking for someone with a strong mixed-methods background in cybercrime, criminology, sociology, education or related fields. Apply ➡️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Deadline: 1 September 2026
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Charles C. Lanfear @clanfear.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Interesting criminologically relevant work theorizing and empirically examining state vs. crime group control of territory in Latin American cities. Politics work like this (and work on social order broadly) is underappreciated in modern criminology's social ecology and control subfield.
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Great to see good work recognised! Daniel Barker Flores wins the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Gabriel Almond Award for the best dissertation in the field of comparative politics! 👇👇 www.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/dpir-al...
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DPIR alumnus Dr Daniel Barker Flores wins top APSA Award for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In the latest RUSI Commentary Cathy Haenlein discusses the factors behind the erosion of the geopolitical context in the early 2000s which enabled widespread consensus on the fight against organised crime and what the landscape looks today. Read the RUSI Commentary: bit.ly/4yiZqC3
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The Changing Face of Organised Crime
Organised crime is changing fundamentally in scope, nature, scale and sophistication. Our collective responses are failing to keep pace.
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 05/06/2026
The Leverhulme Library – showcasing recently published books from researchers the Trust has funded. This month we have Saffron O’Neill, Callum G. Brown, @zorahauser.bsky.social, @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelan.
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Lyrics should not be used as a confession, often they are bravado, exaggeration, complete fantasy, but often killers boast about murders in tunes.
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We often think #mafias belong only to weak states. In my book "Mafia Expansion" I show this isn't true - and discuss what it means for our democracies. If you want to know more, join me for the Cambridge Criminology Series on 16 Oct, 5pm (also online) ➡️ www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/mafia...
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I wrote a long read for @unherd.com about how the mafia has infiltrated Germany - via the pizza restaurant. Based on a book by the excellent criminologist @zorahauser.bsky.social unherd.com/2025/08/how-...
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How the mafia infiltrated Germany
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Germany has a problem with organised crime and @maxdaly.bsky.social picked it up. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Cocaine, corruption and bribes: the German port under siege by Europe’s criminal drug gangs
After seizure in Hamburg of 16 tonnes of high-purity powder, state attorney is accused of being on payroll of gang he was supposed to be prosecuting
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New arrests for #mafia extortion in Germany shed light on an old story: the Farao clan has operated there for decades. Never dismantled, a new generation embedded itself in local life—sliding under the radar. I trace their history in my book, and this case is far from unique.
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ludwigkendzia.bsky.social @ludwigkendzia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
EXKLUSIV Razzia LKA @Polizei_Thuer u. Zoll. Verdacht auf Drogenhandel u. Geldwäsche. Ermittlungen im Umfeld der #Mafia #Ndrangheta . Zusammenhang mit Festnahmen vor 2 Wochen in #Leipzig u. #Duesseldorf. Recherche mit @ahemmerling.bsky.social f. #MDR app.mdr.de/mdr-thuering...
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Verdacht auf Drogenhandel und Geldwäsche: Razzien in Thüringen und Sachsen-Anhalt | MDR.DE
Seit Donnerstagvormittag durchsucht das Thüringer Landeskriminalamt Wohn- und Geschäftsräume in Thüringen und Sachsen-Anhalt. Die Razzien stehen im Zusammenhang mit Ermittlungen im Umfeld der italieni...
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ludwigkendzia.bsky.social @ludwigkendzia.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Das LKA @Polizei_Thuer hat zwei Männer festgenommen. Beide sollen mit Kokain gehandelt und eine Verbindung zur #MAFIA #Ndrangheta haben. Für die Thüringer Fahnder könnte es ein Schlüsselverfahren werden. Die Recherche m. @ahemmerling.bsky.social www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
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LKA Thüringen ermittelt im 'Ndrangheta-Umfeld: Festnahmen in Leipzig und Düsseldorf | MDR.DE
Dem Thüringer Landeskriminalamt ist nach 30 Jahren das erste Mal ein Schlag gegen die italienischen Mafia gelungen. Am Montag wurden zwei Männer festgenommen.
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Elizabeth Pearson @lizzypearson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Honoured to get a sneak preview of Dr. @zorahauser.bsky.social 's new book 'Mafia Expansion: The 'Ndrangheta in Established Democracies'. Zora talked about her fieldwork&findings to rapt @royalholloway.bsky.social students of MSc Terrorism Studies in Bloomsbury! 📚👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 19/02/2025
A Libyan migrant smuggling network “beat, tortured, and abused” victims — and buried those it killed in the desert, local authorities say. Officers arrested an unknown number of suspected smugglers in a crackdown following the discovery of two mass graves.
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Libyan Smuggling Ring Busted: Migrants Tortured, Killed; Bodies Found in Mass Graves
Arrested members of a migrant trafficking group admit to killing migrants and burying them in the desert.
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
📢 Are you an Oxford academic working on sociological research? 📢 Join the Oxford Sociology Network - a community for researchers to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas across disciplines. ✍️ Sign up now ➡️ forms.office.com/e/TViD46Kdxz @socsci.ox.ac.uk
Image of people attending a lecture, alongside logo for the Oxford Sociology Network
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CrimeWatch @crimewatch.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ein katholischer Priester hinterlässt ein Haus mit Aufzeichnungen von sexualisierter Gewalt. Sein Neffe erbt den Tatort – und versucht herauszufinden, was geschehen ist. Wichtige @zeit.de Recherche zu sexualisiertem Missbrauch, #Kirche & die Lücken bei der Aufarbeitung www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...
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Sexueller Missbrauch in der Kirche: Er erbt ein Haus. Und findet die Missbrauchsbilder seines Onkels
Ein katholischer Priester hinterlässt ein Haus voll mit Aufzeichnungen sexualisierter Gewalt. Sein Neffe erbt den Tatort und versucht herauszufinden, was passiert ist.
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
26 January 1979, Cosa Nostra kills investigative journalist Mario Francese (photo, left) in Palermo. The murder is witnessed by his then 12-year-old son Giuseppe (photo, right), who later helps to bring those responsible to justice, before taking his own life in 2002 [Thread] >>1
Mario Francese.Giuseppe Francese.
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🔎 A Nigerian cybercrime ring ran a hotel review scam that duped UK residents into costly bookings with false promises of crypto payouts. 105 arrests later—4 Chinese nationals and 101 Nigerians—authorities have dismantled the operation. #cybercrime
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Nigeria Arrests 105 in Crackdown on Hotel Review Scam
Nigerian authorities bust a sophisticated internet fraud scheme targeting mostly UK residents through fake hotel bookings.
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
20+ senior mafiosi released in Sicily after decades in prison. Their return to the neighbourhoods they once controlled sends a message of relative impunity to the community and the Sicilian mafia is now more likely to reorganise 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Families of Sicilian mafia victims fear return of freed mobsters
Most of the bosses, released from prison on furlough or for good behaviour, have never disavowed Cosa Nostra
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Stashes of #captagon, off-brand Viagra and forged $100 bills found in government buildings in #Syria. Who will take on the business after Assad? www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Syrian rebels seize vast haul of banned drug captagon, country’s largest export
Drug dwarfed all legal exports put together, with Assad’s brother widely believed to be power behind lucrative trade
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Two British church officials stole $1.9 million from a children’s charity through fraudulent gift aid claims. a London court has ruled. Kwabena Duodu used stolen funds to buy a $697,665 home. Moses Asare, a head pastor, used his share for loansharking. www.occrp.org/en/news/evan...
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Evangelical Pastors Caught in a Charity Fraud Scheme
Several evangelical pastors in East and North-East London exploited children’s charity funds to steal over 1 million British pounds, betraying the trust of their communities.
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
One of Britan's most wanted drug traffickers got caught. He commented: "It’s all part of the journey helping me grow into a better person.” - here the incredible story of his last years on the run 👇
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New from 404 Media: the cryptocurrency Tether has become a *massive* money laundering tool for Mexican drug cartels, according to multiple court cases we dug through. The currency so heavily linked to drugs that the price of Tether in Mexico has gone down www.404media.co/tether-has-b...
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Tether Has Become a Massive Money Laundering Tool for Mexican Drug Traffickers, Feds Say
Tether is being used on a massive scale by large scale drug traffickers, to the point where Tether is sold cheaper in Mexico due to its links to drugs, according to court records reviewed by 404 Media...
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
NEW: Even while wanted in the EU, Naples-born drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale thrived in Dubai. A signed contract shows that the son of Dubai’s ruler took a 51% stake in a real estate firm Imperiale once chaired —and the Italian was there to sign the papers.
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Real Estate Deal With Royal Raises Questions About Drug Trafficker Raffaele Imperiale’s Business in Dubai
Imperiale, who lived freely in Dubai for years despite being wanted for drug trafficking in Italy and Spain, was a shareholder in a real estate company that built luxury villas in the Emirati city-sta...
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Benedikt Strunz @bstrunz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In Hannover ist ein Staatsanwalt beschuldigt mit der Kokainmafia zusammengearbeitet zu haben. Er leitete ein 16t-Kokain-Verfahren. Hier ist die Timeline des Falles: @ndrrecherche.bsky.social www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...
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Staatsanwalt im größten Kokain-Fund der Geschichte unter Korruptionsverdacht: Der Fall des Yashar G.
Es gilt die Unschuldsvermutung, doch die Vorwürfe wiegen schwer. Ein Staatsanwalt aus Hannover soll über Jahre hinweg gemeinsame Sache mit Drogenschmugglern gemacht haben. Das ist der Fall Yashar G.
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
✍️ Dr Emilia Ziosi's new research shows that illicit drug flows often integrate into the political & territorial landscapes of the countries they traverse - rather than remaining a transient activity detached from local social structures. Read more ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/rese...
Image of Emilia Ziosi with quote: "As drug traffickers need access to transit points like airstrips, security checkpoints, and road networks to move drug shipments, they build relationships with the legal and extra-legal actors controlling these infrastructures and points of passage. This process embeds drug flows within the local social fabric, even in so-called 'transit' countries like Honduras, where drugs are primarily thought to be passing through."
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Drew Sullivan - OCCRP @drewoccrp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
NEW: An international money-laundering ring run from Moscow & Dubai has been moving billions in crypto and cash for criminal operations, the UK National Crime Agency says. 84 people have been arrested as part of “Operation Destabilise,” involving police from the U.K., Ireland, the U.S. & France.
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Crypto ‘Laundromat’ Tied to Russian Financial Sector and Cocaine Trade - Police
Britain's National Crime Agency said the money laundering bust was its biggest in a decade.
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Let's extend that to most social sciences: the worrying trend of forgetting something was better in the past when it objectively was. Coupled with an anxiety to always reinvent the wheel. 👇
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Gerry Hutch, “arguably Ireland’s most romanticized criminal with a reputation as a modern Robin Hood,” acquitted last year of murder and currently out on bail on money laundering charges, may be about to win a seat “after running a ramshackle campaign waged mostly from his popular TikTok account” 🇮🇪🤷
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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
How many people receive a risk score? Confidential. How many people has the system flagged? Confidential. How much did the system cost to build? Confidential. How do you define fraud? Confidential
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Zora Hauser @zorahauser.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Interested in war and peace in the underworld? A great line-up for this conference on conflict resolution organised by @universityofoxford.bsky.social - I'll be speaking about the Calabrian mafia - info here www.ticketsource.co.uk/sociologynis...
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Alternative Dispute Resolution at Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building
Tickets are now available for Alternative Dispute Resolution at Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony’s College on Fri 29 Nov 2024. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!
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Sociology at Oxford @sociologyoxford.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
👋 We're excited to join BlueSky! 🚀 Oxford Sociology is known for its strong analytical, empirical and comparative focus, tackling real-world issues across diverse areas such as #demography, #criminology, #gender, #politicalsociology and more ⭐ Follow us for updates!
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Reiko Pinkert @reikopinkert.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Alicante ist eigentlich als Urlaubsparadies bekannt. Aber dort sind auch Mafiabanden am Werk, die nicht zimperlich vorgehen. Nun ist den spanischen Ermittlern ein Schlag gegen die organisierte Kriminalität gelungen. www.faz.net/aktuell/gese...
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Minderjährige Auftragsmörder ‒ Schwedische Mafia-Bande in Spanien zerschlagen
Alicante ist eigentlich als Urlaubsparadies bekannt. Aber dort sind auch Mafiabanden am Werk, die nicht zimperlich vorgehen. Nun ist den spanischen Ermittlern ein Schlag gegen die organisierte Krimin...
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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I wrote a piece for the Guardian on Russia’s mad drug world www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Dead drops, PR stunts and punishment beatings: the rapid rise of Russia’s powerful darknet drug industry
Tech-savvy organised crime groups profiting from billion-dollar enterprise that is spreading beyond Russian borders
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Sandro Mattioli @sandromattioli.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
DIE Antimafia-Konferenz am 18.11.2023 in Köln: interessante Gäste, spannende Infos, nette Menschen. Meldet Euch jetzt an! Mehr dazu unter www.mafianeindanke.de
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