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Apr 29, 2011

TRUCKING & MAFIA * Italy - Takes Over Mafia-Run TNT Subcontractors

Justice Ministry to run six firms infiltrated by crime syndicate

Rome,Italy -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Apr 22, 2011: -- Italy's Justice Ministry took over the operation of six TNT Global Express subcontractors that have been infiltrated by a mafia organization...  The ministry said it will run the delivery companies in the Lombardy region surrounding Milan for an initial six months as it attempts to dismantle the crime network within TNT...  The Justice Ministry launched an investigation into TNT subcontractors after Italian and German police arrested 35 alleged member of the 'Ndrangheta, a crime syndicate based in southern Italy, in March...  TNT believed the subcontractors were independent companies, but they were a cover for organized crime. The couriers wore TNT uniforms and drove TNT badged vehicles...  The 'Ndrangheta, which is based in the province of Calabria, is estimated to have an income in excess of $50 billion and has spread into northern Italy in recent years...  The syndicate controls Gioia Tauro, the southern Italian transshipment port that handles over 3.5 million containers a year, according to a parliamentary report in 2008...

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Mar 18, 2011

MAILS & MAFIA * Italy - Investigates Mafia Links to TNT Express

Dutch mail and express group fully co-operating with authorities in Milan


Milan,Italy -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bruce Barnard -Mar 16, 2011: -- TNT Global Express confirmed reports its Italian parcel delivery unit has been targeted by a mafia organization... The Dutch mail and express group said it is fully co-operating with authorities in an investigation into possible links between the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate and one of its subcontractors in the Milan area... TNT said it works with 20 subcontractors around Milan and each has been subjected to a strict vetting process... There was nothing to lead TNT to suspect any irregularities, the company said in a statement... An Italian court claimed the 'Ndrangheta controls TNT's parcel delivery operations in the Lombardy region surrounding Milan... Police in Italy and Germany arrested 35 alleged 'Ndrangheta members a week ago on multiple charges of extortion, money laundering and drug trafficking... The 'Ndrangheta, which is based in the southern province of Calabria, is estimated to have an annual income in excess of $50 billion... The syndicate controls Gioia Tauro, the southern Italian transshipment port that handles over 3.5 million containers a year, according to a parliamentary report in 2008... Organized crime has infiltrated a wide range of waterfront activities from customs and container storage to cargo distribution and freight forwarding, according to parliamentary investigators... (Photo from 5.calshop: Porto Gioia Tauro)

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Feb 11, 2008

Endless Task * USA - Keeping Unions Clean

New York,NY,USA -The New York Times, by STEVEN GREENHOUSE -February 10, 2008: -- ... On Thursday, federal, state and local authorities announced one of the most expansive organized crime indictments in years, involving 87 defendants, including much of the leadership of the Gambino crime family... In the 170-page indictment, which was filled with nicknames like “Jackie the Nose” and “Fat Richie” and accusations of extortion and murder, was evidence that cleanup efforts of the Teamsters and the Laborers have fallen short... Gordon S. Heddell, the inspector general for the United States Labor Department, said the indictments did not allege any corruption involving officials at Local 282’s funds, but he said he might pursue a further investigation of those funds... The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has been under federal supervision since 1989, when a federal racketeering lawsuit named 27 Mafia leaders and all 18 of the union’s board members as defendants. The lawsuit asserted that the mob had controlled four Teamster presidents, including Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975... (Photograph by Raymond on Flick: Of arrested mobsters being led by the FBI on Thursday)

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Sand mafia * Argelie - Looses 88 and 78 trucks in Boumerdés

Crack down on sea shore sand stealers

Boudouaou Marine,Boumerdés,Algiers -Elk Habar/HoodaThunk?, by Ric James (translation by A. Ahmed) -10 Feb 2008: -- National Gendarmerie brigades in Boumerdès, centre costal province, have arrested 88 people pertaining to sand stealing networks, while seizing 88 trucks during inspection visits targeting the paths these networks’ trucks take... The National Gendarmerie campaign is still underway, at the same time the sand mafia still stealing the shore sand under the protection of the terrorist groups; in Boudouaou Marine municipality, Boumerdès, the mafia networks are exploiting tens of young people for the sand stealing, starting at midnight transporting these sand quantities to secure places on the back of donkeys... During our visit to the region, we discovered that these networks use agriculture lands to stock the sand quantities, to hence transport it onboard of trucks in view of skipping the security services ambushes. The network bosses pay enormous sums for young people, as like Boudouaou Marine and Corso municipalities beaches which have been disfigured by this mafia bosses who pay big amounts exploiting these people, a truck full of sand is amounting 15 thousand AD (U$S 223.547)... National Gendarmerie has stepped up its activities at many places, 88 people involved with sand mafia have been put behind bars during the last few months, including 73, which have been brought into justice, in this regard 78 trucks have been seized, according to the National Gendarmerie Group in Boumerdés, who are facing difficulties in the roads taken by the sand stealers, due to the lack of lighting along these rural paths. This situation could help them, also the existing of some workshops producing concrete blocks and other construction materials using these stolen sand quantities...

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Feb 9, 2008

MAFFIA's TRUCKING * USA - In Big Mob Sweep, Gambino Leaders Are Indicted

In the largest sweep in recent memory, federal and New York State authorities on Thursday rounded up scores of accused organized crime figures who were indicted on charges including murder, racketeering, construction extortions and the looting of union benefit funds...

New York,NY,USA -Reuters/The New York Times, by WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM -February 7, 2008: -- More than 80 people — among them the entire Gambino family hierarchy and reputed figures from the Genovese and Bonanno families — are named in two indictments, along with union and construction industry officials... The construction extortion aspects of the investigation, which began more than three years ago, focused on the trucking industry, which hauls away dirt excavated from major construction projects in and around the city, said Gordon S. Heddell, inspector general of the United States Labor Department... “This involved the trucks that move construction material and debris throughout the entire New York City region — the cement that is poured to build house foundations out in Staten Island, the general contractors who are responsible for building condominiums over in New Jersey and even a proposed Nascar raceway”... Among those charged was Anthony Delvescovo, a project manager and director of tunnel operations for the Schiavone Construction Company, a heavy construction firm that has worked on major public works projects in the New York area, according to the indictment... Four trucking company executives, from companies including SRD Contracting, Firehawk Enterprises, Jo-Tap Industries, Andrews Trucking and Dump Masters of NY Inc., were also charged... The New York City’s Business Integrity Commission, which also had a role in the investigation, was expected to move to revoke the companies’ licenses today... The case was based in large part on the hundreds of hours of secretly recorded conversations made by the informant, a construction executive... The leadership of the family — Mr. D’Amico, Mr. Cefalu and Mr. Corozzo — were all charged in federal court with racketeering conspiracy and extortion and, if convicted, face up to 20 years in prison on multiple counts... (Photo by Robert Stolarik/The New York Times - F.B.I. agents with Domenico Cefalu, an alleged member of the Gambino crime family, in New York on Thursday)

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