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Crime in Moldova, as everywhere in the Post-Soviet states, has risen in the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, although in recent years there has been an improvement. Corruption in Moldova, economic and drug-related crimes are the most visible and predictable results of the deteriorating economic situation. Racketeering and the mafia ...
According to Germany's 2010 crime statistics, 5.93 million criminal acts were committed, which was 2% lower than in 2009. [4] According to the Interior Ministry, this was the first time the figure had fallen below six million offenses since 1991 (the year after reunification ), and is the lowest crime level since records began. [4]
Crime statistics. In Switzerland, police registered a total of 432,000 offenses under the Criminal Code in 2019 (−0.2% compared with previous year), of which 110,140 or 25.5 percent were cases of thefts (excluding vehicles, −2.0%), and 41,944 or 9.7 percent were thefts of vehicles (including bicycles, −10.1%), 46 were killings and 161 were attempted murders.
Organised crime and drug trafficking in the city is now largely controlled by a secretive cartel known as the “Huyton Firm” or “Cantril Farm Cartel”, formed in the 1990s and run by two brothers from the Huyton area of Liverpool. The gang has flooded the UK with cocaine and has been responsible for serious violence across Liverpool.
Murder. In 2020, Estonia had a murder rate of 2.8 per 100,000 population. [2] This was the third highest rate among European Union countries, behind Latvia (4.9) and Lithuania (3.5); [3] nevertheless lower than the global average of 6.1 victims per 100,000 people (in 2017). [4] In 2022 there were a total of 18 murders which was the lowest ...
The history of organized crime in France can be traced to the French Revolution (1789 to 1799). It is however with the turn of the 20th century that local mobsters became highly organized and created crime families. During the 1910s and 1920s, Pigalle and Rue Saint-Denis (in Paris) served as a hub for prostitution. [2]
Overview. Although South Korea has a lower crime rate than other industrialized countries, [1] the crime rate in 2007 was around 2.9 times higher than in 1978, with the total number of crimes committed rising from 513,165 to 1,965,577. [2] On occasion, sudden changes in circumstance have led to cause short-term fluctuations in the crime rate ...
Crime in Thailand has been a defining issue in the country for decades, inspiring years of policy and international criticism. [1] Drug use and corruption make up the majority of the crime in Thailand [2] and due to this, many Thai administrations attempted to curtail the drug trade, most notably Thaksin Shinawatra with the 2003 War on Drugs. [3]