Global Criminal Groups Targeted
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<i> Reuters</i>
NAPLES, Italy — U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, warning that organized crime is a “poison” threatening democracy, urged governments Monday to fight back against the growing power of the world’s criminal networks.
Opening a three-day ministerial conference on cross-border crime, he told delegates from 138 countries that the tentacles of “crime multinationals” had spread across the globe.
The conference is the highest-level meeting called by the United Nations on organized crime.
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