Friday, February 11, 2005

Trafficking - A Transnational Organised Crime" (10/02/2005) from Mondaq

http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp?articleid=30923
Sally Ramage
"Explores ways in which UK businesses can hide this illegal activity behind a legitimate business. It flags up some methods of discovering the activity, using standard fraud investigative methods. It explains the technical accounting transactions that hide such activity and discusses the UK�s Proceeds of Crimes Act and how it will prosecute any trafficking crime. Recent research in the UK has shown that, despite journalistic reports such as the Economist�s September 2004 article on pornography and trafficking, which stated that there is an extremely small amount of trafficking crime in the UK, academic research reveals that there is a large and growing problem of children, aged 13 to 16, brought to the UK to supply the pornography market, clothing sweatshops and restaurant businesses."