Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Greed drives new breed of Mr Bigs / [Australia] News.com, 5 Oct 2004

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10968966%255E3102,00.html
Natalie Gregg and Paula Doneman
"ORGANISED crime groups are fragmenting and becoming more difficult to investigate as a new landscape of criminal activity emerges in Queensland, a Crime and Misconduct Commission report has found.

It said the lines that identified the organised crime groups had blurred during the past five years in favour of sophisticated criminal networks based on trust and "pragmatic (illicit) business decisions".

CMC chairman Brendan Butler said the state's watchdog had found that traditional group such as Asian gangs and the Mafia no longer held power. Instead, organised crime groups contained people motivated by profit."