Organized crime is involved in extortion, kidnaping, murder, fixing bids for public works, and gunrunning. |
He frankly admitted that Carson made himself liable to be tried for high treason at the time of the Larne gunrunning. |
These connected crimes include corruption of state officials, forgery, use of fraud to obtain false certificates, blackmail, gunrunning, drug trafficking and money laundering. |
Friendship with two of the crew, the brothers César and Dominique Cervoni, led him during 1877-78 to become involved in gunrunning along the Spanish coast for the Carlist cause. |
Peruvian investigators are looking into evidence that he might have been involved with gunrunning to Marxist guerrillas in Colombia. |
Two recent and notorious cases, involving gunrunning operations in Africa and the spread of nuclear weapons technology, illustrate the challenges that illicit brokering poses. |