An ex-Mountie on trial in Surrey for misusing a police database to get information about the Bacon brothers has now been charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into Canada and recruiting a border guard to help him do it.

An ex-Mountie on trial in Surrey for misusing a police database to get information about the Bacon brothers has now been charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into Canada and recruiting a border guard to help him do it.Abbotsford resident Rapinder (Rob) Sidhu, and co-accused Anthony Jurcev, were indicted by a grand jury in Seattle this week, according to court documents obtained by...

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Drug Dealing, Counterfeiting, Smuggling: How North Korea Makes Money

North Korea used to be an industrial powerhouse. Not anymore. Today, the country can't feed its own people. Its cities go dark every night for lack of electricity.Yet helplessness wasn't the original plan. The original plan for the country's economy had a name. It was called "juche," or self-reliance. The idea was that all North Korean problems should be solved by North Koreans.Every North Korean...

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Violent Mexican drug gang, Zetas, taking control of migrant smuggling

One of Mexico's most powerful criminal gangs has muscled into the migrant-smuggling racket, changing what had been a relatively benign if risky industry of independent operators into a centralized business that often has deadly consequences for those who try to operate outside it.Los Zetas, who earned a reputation for brutality by gunning down thousands of Mexicans in the ongoing battle for drug-smuggling...

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