The Enormous Increase of Global Organized Mafia

Journalist Misha Glenny can be called an Underworld investigator because he researches the background of global organized crime. Whether it's drug smugglers in British Columbia, weapons- or oil smugglers in Eastern Europe, Japanese yakuza or Nigerian scammers, to research this magisterial work Glenny penetrated the convoluted, globalized and franchised modern underworld - often at considerable personal risk. In the old days Mafia was organized nationwide. These days are past, Glenny shows us that the today’s Mafia is organized worldwide and with an extraordinary increase of 15 % during only the last two decades. The main reason was the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Then it increased because there were more than 14.000 people from security services (like KGB in Russia) fired. United Nations recognized that this is a mighty industry and it should be taken very seriously. Society ignores this world, but Glenny suggests that conventional law enforcement might not be able to combat a problem whose roots lie in global instability.
(Source: Profile on Ted com)