Impact Of Crime Towards Globalization

US unveils sanctions against global organized crime

WASHINGTON — The United States Monday unveiled a series of tough sanctions aimed at cracking down on international organized crime, including gangs from Russia, Japan and Mexico, as well as the Italian Mafia.

The Japanese Yakuza, the Camorra from Naples and Mexico's Los Zetas as well as The Brothers' Circle, based mainly in the former Soviet Union, were among those slapped with economic sanctions, the White House said.

US President Barack Obama signed an executive order setting out 56 priority actions aimed at smashing transnational criminal organizations by breaking their economic power and protecting the financial system.

The order froze all property belonging to those groups designated as transnational criminal organizations, and barred American citizens from engaging in any business with them.

"Organized crime is no longer a local or regional problem; it has become a danger to international stability," Obama wrote in a letter to Congress outlining his new order.

"Significant transnational criminal organizations have become increasingly sophisticated and dangerous to the United States and their activities have reached such scope and gravity that they destabilize the international system."

He warned that such gangs were taking advantage of globalization to spread their activities around the world, deepening their ties to some governments and the international financial system.

"Transnational crime threatens the world economy," John Brennan, Obama's special advisor on counterterrorism and homeland security, told a briefing.

"The sophistication and business aware of these criminals that they can enter markets and undermine legitimate competition and market integrity, which can damage and distort the financial systems and competitiveness legitimate."

Cybercrime, trafficking and drug trafficking were three main activities to be addressed and the theft of intellectual property that can "not only erode the competitiveness of the United States but also endanger public health and safety through the distribution of contaminated or counterfeit.

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