Tweet Police in Columbia have arrested two men arriving in that country after discovering that they were each smuggling $40,000 cash in $100 bills, hidden in their stomachs. The cash was wrapped in plastic, similarly to the way in which drug smugglers wrap up heroin and cocaine for internal body smuggling. The men were taken […]
Tweet Canada’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General has ordered the extradition of Canadian Sociology professor Hassan Diab to France to face charges of murder, attempted murder and destruction of property related to the 1980 terrorist attack on a synagogue in Paris that killed 4 people, and injured 40 others. The terrorist attack was anti-semitic and […]
Tweet According to this article in the Vancouver Sun, one of the Tamil migrants who arrived in Canada last August aboard the MV Sun Sea, has admitted that he worked for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a mechanic and helped them dig bunkers in Sri Lanka. The LTTE is a designated terrorist […]
Tweet The Federal Court of Canada has ruled that a security certificate declaring Mohammed Harkat inadmissible to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act is valid because Mr. Harkat’s ties to terrorist organizations pose a danger to the security of Canada. Harkat’s security certificate is the first to be upheld in Canada. The Court found […]
Tweet Human Trafficking & Money Laundering Human trafficking is the second largest illicit business in the world, after drug trafficking, generating as much as US$40 million annually in proceeds of crime that are laundered through the legitimate financial system. It is a modern form of slavery, defined as any act that involves the transport, harbouring, […]
Tweet Canada has introduced new immigration legislation to further criminalize the smuggling of foreign nationals into Canada, particularly where there may be a connection to terrorist financing. The Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada’s Immigration System Act (Bill C-49) gives the Minister of Public Safety the competence to designate the arrival of a group of foreign […]
Tweet Dalia Preldakaj, a paralegal in the New York law firm of Salvador Collazo, was sentenced today in Manhattan to 78 months in prison for money laundering, witness tampering, immigration application fraud and conspiracy to operate an immigration fraud mill. Collazo is a former Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court who was […]