Criminal organization and the person(s)
When you read this week’s module, there are several examples of organized crime and public corruption within the government. For your discussion this week you will need to find a high profile case (specific) that involves a criminal organization and public corruption within the government, within the last twenty years. You need to name the criminal organization and the person(s) within the government. Explain that case, how it came about? What actually occurred? How it was discovered? Write out the results of the investigation and a good description of everything for the profile of this case.
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Criminal organization and the person[s]
It is difficult to keep a continuing criminal enterprise profitable and survive over the long term unless there is a means to protect it from law enforcement, which ultimately learns of its existence. Corruption supports the ongoing existence of organized crime, because corrupt public officials protect organized criminal groups from law enforcement and disruption [Rose-Ackerman and Palikfa, 2016]. For example, Eurasian Transnational Organized Crime Groups are politically and financially motivated organized crime groups influenced by, associated with, or originating from the former Soviet Union or Central Europe. They profit through tax-evasion schemes and using corrupt officials to embezzle government funds and they have also defrauded newly formed government of billions of dollars, as industries and resources formerly owned by the government have been privatized. Corruption prevention and investigations in all sectors are necessary to reduce the ability of organized criminal groups to survive and profit, and for a society to achieve sustainable development.
