| It will go to finance prostitution rings, loansharking and all kinds of criminal activities. |
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| These gangs regularly share personnel and expertise and are involved in heroin trafficking and loansharking. |
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| Asian criminals have used legal casinos in Calgary for cheating at play, loansharking, and drug trafficking. |
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| It used to be in this country that those types of rates could not be charged, that it would be loansharking. |
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| To varying degrees, additional TOC criminal activities comprise money laundering, loansharking, extortion, fraud and large-scale thefts. |
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| Secondary activity includes murder, extortion, assault, contraband smuggling, gambling, loansharking and arson. |
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| It has developed since those provisions in the Criminal Code were made to combat loansharking. |
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| It was a chance to clean up these companies, especially those involved in loansharking, and they disappeared. |
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| In fact, Bulger's lawyers conceded he ran a criminal enterprise that raked in millions through drugs, gambling and loansharking. |
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| The indictment, unsealed in New York City, accuses the defendants of a litany of classic mafia crimes, including extortion, loansharking, casino-style gambling, sports gambling, credit card fraud and health care fraud. |
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| These folks are then forced to turn to the loansharking industry and, in this instance, the payday loan operators that exist in all of our communities. |
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| While these provisions were enacted to combat the practice of loansharking, the reality is that they also apply to most lending arrangements in Canada, including payday lending. |
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| We feel that section 347, while appropriate to deal with loansharking, those type of serious underworld activities, as the member references, is not the best tool to regulate the payday lending industry as it has developed. |
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| The criminal enterprises, such as loansharking and money laundering, that support illegal gambling will continue to provide significant profits for organized crime to finance other criminal activities. |
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| Law enforcement officials said that Mr. Bonanno reached the summit of his power in the early 60's, reaping huge profits mainly from illicit gambling, loansharking rackets and heroin trafficking. |
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| It is becoming worse with the growth of pawnbroking, loansharking, child poverty and the widespread use of food banks. |
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| According to the letter, casinos attract corruption, money laundering, loansharking and other criminal activities. |
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| The risk from payday lenders has been highlighted by the Mirror's End Legal Loansharking campaign. |
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