Violence and organised Drug Trafficking and criminality. People deal drugs to make money. Money and drug dealing drive violence on our streets and often, that leads to murder. Criminals make around £5 billion a year by selling drugs. Its nearly all cash. And thatis a problem because they cant put millions in cash into the bank. That is where the money launderers come in. Money laundering is the air that allows organised crime to breathe. Criminals dont do this for fun. They do it to create money, and the only way they can enjoy that money through the process of Money Laundering. The Financial System is supposed to keep dirty money out. Tonight, we expose how it fails. We have got hold of details of a Police Investigation which put 27 money launderers behind bars. Working with the french media company, premieres lignes, we have tracked the gangs dirty money around the world. The money trail starts with an airport cleaner, hassan, and a trip from france to london. Its 2013. Hassan been
It has caused myself and my family untold suffering. And nobody seems to care. Violent crime is on the rise on britains streets. Much of it is linked to drugs. Robberies, shootings, stabbings. There is a clear causal link between that street violence and organised Drug Trafficking and criminality. People deal drugs to make money. Money and drug dealing drive violence on our streets and often, that leads to murder. Criminals make around £5 billion a year by selling drugs. Its nearly all cash. And thatis a problem because they cant put millions in cash into the bank. That is where the money launderers come in. Money laundering is the air that allows organised crime to breathe. Criminals dont do this for fun. They do it to create money, and the only way they can enjoy that money through the process of Money Laundering. The Financial System is supposed to keep dirty money out. Tonight, we expose how it fails. We have got hold of details of a Police Investigation which put 27 money launder
A gang leader had warned the haitian Prime Minister not to return to haiti. He was in nairobi, discussing the possibility of a kenyan led Multinational Security force. But the bbc has established that he left returned to haiti safely on sunday. With the details, heres our caribbean correspondent, will grant. The decision to declare both a State Of Emergency and a night time curfew in the Haitian Capital comes after fierce fighting by armed gangs who are now in control of most of the city. During the fighting, gunmen entered the main prison in Port Au Prince and quickly overwhelmed the guards, allowing some 4,000 inmates to escape. Eyewitnesses report seeing several bodies inside and around the prison compound. The gangs in haiti which oppose mr henrys rule sense a possible power vacuum and an opportunity to force him from office. A notorious gang leader, a former elite Police Officer called jimmy cherizier, also known as barbecue, has claimed responsibility for the latest outbreak of v