The involvement of international criminal syndicates in trafficking likely continued to challenge Macau's law enforcement efforts.

He created the further planning conditions starting from 2012, in order to create an international financial syndicate including the local supporters and an international expert team.

Another has it that the more than 200 banks in the international syndicate underwriting the project will cut their losses and foreclose.

Most trafficking offenders in the Gambia are probably individuals who operate independently of international syndicates.

But it's an international syndicate of criminals that we re up against.

What worries law enforcement officials most is that international criminal syndicates are increasingly getting involved in illegal immigration.

There's an international syndicate called the Trust, and von Brinkerhoff is a member.

That leaves 11 other international syndicates still building new boats, or planning on them.

Koch makes it clear that his team is worried about the 12 international syndicates that are challenging for the cup.

But heroin became a new problem after local drug gangs, linked to international syndicates, decided in the early 1980's to create a domestic market for it.