 Yuliyanov J Raychev Serafim | John Macris, 46, was gunned down while getting into his Smart car outside his home in Glyfada, a suburb of Athens, in Oct 2018. Cops believe the murder was a contract hit. |
 | Yuliyanov J Raychev Serafim, 33, was found guilty and received a total sentence of 18 years. His brother, Milen Raychev, 36, was sentenced to 10 years. |  |
 | The head of Guinea-Bissau’s migration agency has been arrested for involvement in cocaine trafficking. Colonel Alassana Diallo was taken into custody. Military officers in Guinea-Bissau have often opposed efforts by the police to crack down on smuggling and have intervened to free traffickers. |  |
 | The loot seized in Guinea-Bissau's largest ever drug bust last September included more than 20 vehicles, $3m, $90k worth of wine and porridge found in a warehouse, and 1.8 tonnes of cocaine hidden in sacks of rice. Operation Navara culminated in 12 men being arrested. They were sentenced to between 4 and 16 years in prison last month. The US, along with the UN, labelled the former Portuguese colony along the Atlantic Ocean a narco-state a decade ago. |
 Braima Seidi Ba has evaded capture. |   |  Ricardo Ariza Monje is thought to have returned to Latin America. |
 | Drug traffickers are entrenched in the country. Newly installed President Embaló replaced the policing chief, but after concerns about the nominee he gave the post to a respected former deputy attorney general, Teresa Alexandrina da Silva.
Drugs remain a "pernicious injection" into Guinea-Bissau's domestic politics. |  |
 | A gangster who shot and killed prominent Hells Angel Bob Green during an all-night, drug fueled party in 2016 has been denied parole. The Parole Board ruled that Jason Francis Wallace’s release from prison would leave the community at risk. Wallace pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2017 and was sentenced to just under seven years in prison. Wallace said he doesn’t think the Hells Angels will come after him because they know the shooting of Green was accidental. |  |
 Green was shot and killed at 11:39 a.m after an all night party. | That may not be wise thinking as Shaun Clary, who brought the gun Wallace fired to the party, was found dismembered in a Surrey ditch 10 days later. |  |
 | Angela Collingbourne, 52, was ‘second-in command’ of a 16-strong drug gang headed by her sons. The cocaine dealer was jailed for six years after being found guilty of drugs offences on the streets of Newport in Wales. Collingbourne ran a mobile telephone trading line with 4,000 customers. She kept the operation going when both of her sons were in prison. Collingbourne’s sons were also jailed – Jerome Nunes, 28, for 12 years and Blaine Nunes, 26, for 14. |
 | The judge had harsh words for Collingbourne. ‘You took no responsibility for your actions or those of your criminal family. ‘During your trial you portrayed yourself as a victim, fighting bigotry and injustice – but the jury saw through you. You dismissed your crimes as evidence of your own victimhood. ‘You were counting and banking the vast profits from this operation. You knew many of those involved and the scale of the it. You began to believe that you were unstoppable.’ |
  | On February 26, 2020, Danny Smith, 47 of Allardville, N.B. plead guilty to conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, trafficking in cocaine, laundering proceeds of crime and possession of the proceeds of crime. Smith was sentenced to nine years for the drug offences, and three years for the proceeds of crime offences. Cocaine was peddled on the Acadian Peninsula and in Restigouche, Madawaska and Victoria counties. Cops seized $900k in cash and 5.5 kg of cocaine. The cocaine was linked to the Hells Angels in Québec. The bust lassoed members and prospects of the Red Devils and the HA. 9 were arrested in total. |  Marcel Friolet was among those busted. |
| 60% of the narcotics market in Europe is run by criminal structures from the Balkans. The Balkans Cartel specializes in drug-smuggling on various yachts and sailboats. The African smuggling route, south of the Canary Islands and towards the shores of West Africa is used often. That's where 980 one kilo packages of high-purity cocaine was intercepted. In 2019 cops from across the globe teamed up against a Balkan organized crime network using private planes for large-scale cocaine trafficking. |
| An Oz drug courier who crashed a van packed with meth into two marked police cars has been jailed. Simon Tu, 27, was sentenced to six years and six months in prison in a New South Wales district court. The Toyota HiAce van yielded 273 kg of meth. |  Simon Tu |
 Wisniewski had started his journey from Poland and told cops that he didn’t know how the drugs got in his truck. | Marek Wisniewski, 45, was sentenced to 8 years after he tried to smuggle cocaine worth over £8m into the UK in a van delivering toy bricks.  |  |
 | Daniel Tiessen, 52, is charged with four counts of conspiring with others to commit an indictable offence, as well as threatening death or bodily harm. Drug dealer Tiessen lined up outlaw bikers to scoop up Devin Alderton and then have everything from his legs broken to screws drilled into his head. Other ideas included syringes filled with bleach. This was related to efforts to recover monies owed. As cops listened in Tiessen spoke in graphic terms of how he and his associates would deal with their target. 
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 | The muscle hired to carry out the kidnapping was expected to be the HA, “they’re one-percenters — they mean fucking business,” said Tiessen. One of the meetings referred to was with a Hells Angels vice-president. As the plot moved closer to fruition the cops swooped in. |  |
 | Ben 'Notorious' Geppert, 28, was arrested in Kingscliff for offences relating to extortion, robbery and a serious assault. He led cops on a chase over fences, rooftops and through backyards before being caught like a dog. He was taken into custody before being refused bail. |  |
 | Geppert is already serving a three-year suspended prison sentence following a dust-up outside a KFC restaurant on the Gold Coast. He was released on bail for a spate of violent incidents before taking to social media to swear his life as a gangster was behind him. Geppert and his heavily tattooed girlfriend, Allaina Vader, host a huge number of Instagram fans. |  |
 | The RCMP organized crime unit in Saskatchewan seized 69.3 pounds of pot, 5,152 grams of shatter, $573,735 and 2,856,500 cigarettes. B.C. pot came east and was exchanged for bootleg cigarettes coming from reserves. |  |
|  Choudhry figures prominently in the Iranian Muslim community. He is director of communications for Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, the largest organized Muslim group in Canada. |
 Safwan Choudhry | Safwan Choudhry, who was not wearing a mask, told reporters that his family was targeted over the mask policy and the flight crew was wrong. Choudhry and his family were travelling on employee travel passes and refused to abide by Westjet's 'zero tolerance' mask policy. The flight crew requested that the family step off the plane for the safety of other passengers. They refused. Choudhry described it as " ... the most horrific & dehumanizing treatment" |  |
 | Safwan Choudhry claims he was subjected to Islamic discrimination. It's appearing this man is incapable of making his child wear a mask OR leaving the aircraft when requested to do so. OF COURSE he should be banned to protect others from his irresponsible conduct that is grossly unacceptable. To wrap himself in Islam as a victim is an insult. |
 | Cops were called at 7 a.m. after Jimmy Pelletier, 40, was found unconscious in the parking lot of an apartment building on rue Rouleau. |  He was taken to hospital in critical condition and died. |
 | Lucchese mobster Vincent Bruno and his 95-year-old grandmother were captured in this court evidence photo with some herb. The gangster and his walker-using granny are standing next to several large bags that contained “20 or so pounds” of pot. Granny made no mention of having to maneuver her walker around bales of pot when she wrote a letter to the sentencing judge. “I miss my grandson so much.” Racketeering conspiracy charges were laid against four Lucchese gangsters, former acting Lucchese crime boss Michael Madonna, his second-in-command Steven Crea Sr and associates Christopher Londonio and Terrence Caldwell. They were found guilty. |  Vincent Bruno |
 The Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate is led by 78-year-old Shinobu Tsukasa | 51.2% of regular yakuza members are aged 50 or over, a sharp increase as a result of demographics and legal crackdowns. Yakuza attempts to recruit young men with promises of easy money is failing. Instead, new recruits face decades of risk-taking on behalf of their bosses and long prison sentences if they get caught – all without prospect of a pension. |  The yakuza are becoming irrelevant in Japanese society. |
 | Stricter laws have made a life of crime unappealing: yakuza are forbidden from opening bank accounts, obtaining a credit card, taking out insurance policies or even signing a contract for a mobile phone. The ageing of criminals in Japan has coincided with a steady decline in membership. At its peak in the 1960s, the yakuza had more than 180,000 members. Today, just 14,400 are registered mobsters – along with 13,800 associates. |  |
