Organized crime has always been international in scope. In the 1800s and early 1900s, crime syndicates in Europe and elsewhere took advantage of immigrant networks abroad, exporting their criminal knowledge to the New World, as this U.S. gangland murder from 1939 shows. Today, plummeting transportation costs and digital technology have made it easier than ever for mafias in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere to outsource, invest abroad, consolidate—in short, to do everything a global corporation does.
Photo : Bettman-Corbis
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