Portugal Hells Angels face music - Mário Machado

In March 2018, between 30 and 40 members of the Portugal Hells Angels attacked a rival group of Bandidos at a restaurant in Prior Velho, on the outskirts of Lisbon. Six people were injured, two seriously. The main target was Mário Machado, who escaped unscathed. The restaurant was destroyed.

Mário Machado was leader of the Hammerskins group - a radical and violent wing of the skinhead movement. He was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for extortion. Before that he had been sentenced to ten years in prison. The Hammerskin Nation is the most violent and best-organized neo-Nazi skinhead group in America. Mário Machado said he had "850 militants and supporters." The two groups are at war and have been for years. At stake is control of the drug trade.

'Parasite' with cocaine found attached to ship’s hull in Guatemala

A steel construction was found attached to the hull of general cargo ship UBC SAIKI in Guatemala. The pod, known as a 'parasite' contained 150 kg of cocaine. The ship arrived at Santo Tomas anchorage on Apr 17 from Santa Marta, Colombia.

Fuminho arrested in Mozambique

Gilberto Aparecido dos Santos, aka 'Fuminho,' had been on the run for more than 20 years after escaping from a Brazilian prison until his capture in a luxury hotel in Maputo on April 14. Brazilian media reported that dos Santos left Mozambique in a Brazilian Air Force plane bound for Brazil. Dos Santos was one of the First Capital Command (PCC) gang’s most important cocaine brokers and crucial to its international business. The PCC is the largest criminal organization in Brazil, with a membership of 20,000, 6,000 of whom are in prison.

Samir Chowieri - Canada's been good

Cops and CRA have targeted Samir Chowieri multiple times on suspicion of money laundering.

Samir Chowieri is president of the group that owns the CHSLD Herron (31 have died) along with 6 other retirement homes in Quebec, all of which are embroiled in Covid-19. He was convicted in the 1980s of conspiracy for drug trafficking and fraud. In 2012 Chowieri was implicated by wiretaps recorded by police during Project Colisée, an operation that decimated the Montreal mafia.

Place Vincent-Massey. The federal government leases 98.9% of the building.

A numbered company ended up with Place Vincent-Massey after a complicated deal for $1 in July 2006. The seller was Entreprises Duroc Inc., owned by Guy Marc-Aurèle, a friend and fixer for Vito Rizzuto. Marc-Aurèle acted as a key front man for Rizzuto, his son, and murdered developer Tony Magi.

Tony Magi - murdered in 2019.

37 years after his immigration to Canada "with $2,000 in his pocket" Samir Chowieri and the Katasa Group owns residential properties in Ottawa, Montreal and Sept-Îles, as well as two commercial buildings in Gatineau.

See ----->https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/world/canada/montreal-nursing-homes-coronavirus.html

Oz HA sergeant-at-arms, Meth dealer, Phillip O'Shea can't catch a break

Hells Angels Phillip O'Shea had another appearance in front of a judge and the result is another 6 months in the big house. O'Shea will be 'on ice' until mid-2021.

HA heavyweight Phillip O'Shea has been in jail since January and will be eligible for release in October on trafficking charges. O'Shea unsuccessfully sued Northern Territory police in 2018 over his violent arrest in a separate case.

O'Shea was found guilty on the drug charges, as well as assaulting police.

Gold the Ferrari of money laundering - Peter Ferrari

NTR Metals is the largest money-laundering prosecution involving precious metals in U.S. history. “The scope of the conspiracy is enormous,” prosecutors told a judge during a hearing in Miami in 2017. Federal prosecutors charged 3 NTR traders with money laundering, saying the three men bought $3.6 billion of illegal gold from criminal groups in Latin America. The scandal shut down NTR and cost its Dallas-based parent company, Elemetal, the ability to trade gold on bullion and commodity exchanges.

Prosecutors claimed the gold traders, who eventually pleaded guilty, fueled “illegal gold mining, foreign bribery [and] narcotics trafficking.”

Pedro Pérez Miranda - Peter Ferrari

In 2012, the company did little business in Latin America. But the next year, NTR struck a rich vein, becoming the largest U.S. importer of Peruvian gold with $980m worth of deals. They did it with help from Peruvian businessman Pedro Pérez Miranda, who is suspected of laundering massive amounts of drug money through the gold trade. Over the past two decades, as the U.S. war on drugs undercut the cash flow of narco-traffickers, dealers diversified into Latin America’s gold industry. By using drug profits to mine and sell gold, criminals can launder staggering amounts of money.

In 2013, NTR went on to buy $400 million in gold from Ferrari

NTR’s Peruvian operations collapsed at the end of 2013 when police raided a storage facility outside Lima holding gold that belonged to Ferrari and others. Agents seized $18.8m worth of gold. But the party wasn’t over — it moved. In 2014, NTR was smuggling gold across the border to Ecuador and Bolivia.

Illegal mining has devastated the rainforests of Colombia, Peru, and other gold-producing nations.

When local governments in those countries also began cracking down the party moved again, this time to Colombia. In 2015, NTR’s imports from Colombia soared to $722m. That accounted for more than half of the country’s gold exports to the US. Colombia exported 64 tons of gold in 2016, much of it to the United States. That same year, Colombia’s large-scale, legal mining operations produced only eight tons. A large part of the gap between what Colombia’s big mines produce and what the country exports is unlicensed and untaxed gold — often unearthed at any cost by operations controlled by narcos.

Cartel associates pose as traders to buy and mine gold. Cocaine profits are seed money. They sell the metal through front companies to refineries. Once the deal is made, the cartels have turned their dirty gold into clean cash. To the outside world, they’re not drug dealers; they’re gold traders.

Sinaloa Cartel - Coronavirus bad for business

Last week the Sinaloa cartel’s top boss, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, declared that wholesale prices were going to increase for meth. “Mayo sent this announcement saying, ‘Everyone is going to sell a pound of crystal for 15,000 pesos ($600) from now on because of the shortage. Before that, it was 2,500 pesos ($100),” The stated reason for the price hike is the coronavirus pandemic. The raw chemical ingredients used for manufacturing meth and fentanyl are sourced from China, and supply chains have been disrupted.

Cooks, who usually keep a 30 day supply, are already running low on some of the essential materials they need.

The price of acetone, which is used to manufacture heroin, has more than doubled over the past 15 days, climbing from around $60 for 20 litres to $150. Rumors suggest that a kilo of fentanyl, which used to sell wholesale in Sinaloa for 870,000 pesos ($35k), now costs 1 million pesos ($42k).

UK gangster 'The General' an immovable object

Joland Giwa, 30, arrived in the UK when he was aged 10, and grew up terrorizing the streets of Croydon, south London. He was jailed for 27 months in February 2009 for a string of robberies and thefts. Attempts to deport him to Africa – Giwa is thought to be from either Nigeria or Sierra Leone – were frustrated because no country would take him. He was jailed for seven years in 2015 for a violent robbery. He was released from prison on June 2019. Giwa has again been sentenced to a lengthy prison term after he admitted possessing heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine with intent to supply. Giwa was caught with drugs with a street value of £4,700, £1,300 in cash and three mobile phones.

He was living with his partner and their two children with a third on the way. He pulled 4 years this time.

Kodak Black eats another year

A year is concurrent with a 47-month federal prison term he’s already serving.

Bill K. Kapri, 'Kodak Black' is back in a federal penitentiary in Kentucky after being sentenced in State Supreme Court in Lockport for gun possession.

Hells Angels Anthony Mills sues over speeding ticket, hurtful words

The 90-plus minute stop violated any number of the biker's rights says Mills. He claims he was treated like a criminal and was harassed for his association to Hells Angels.

Full patch Anthony Mills is suing after he was pulled over by cops for speeding the night of April 8, 2018. He was ticketed for driving 20-25 mph over the speed limit.