They also rake in an additional several hundred million dollars a year in kidnappings and extortion.
This is a regime that has gone in and rampaged through towns through extortion, murder, rape.
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Cocaine is thought to be its biggest source of revenue, along with extortion and money laundering.
Ferguson was found guilty on nine of 11 counts, including racketeering and several counts of extortion.
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If found guilty of extortion, he could be sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Mr Gomez was arrested in 2008 and charged with kidnapping, extortion, rebellion and giving false testimony.
International rights groups say arbitrary detentions of refugees and extortion by Malaysian immigration officials are common.
Simply dropping the name does wonders, reportedly, for the success rate of extortion schemes.
Most independent monitors blame the Indonesian forces, involved in extortion rackets of one kind or another.
The virus amounted to "digital extortion" and victims should not pay up, said German police.
"This is a form of digital extortion, " said the BKA in its alert about the virus.
This makes them vulnerable to exploitation by employers, frequent extortion by the police and periodic clampdowns.
Alas, most businessmen submit to the 'ndrangheta's extortion and others willingly exploit the local situation.
Mr Bakr vigorously denies claims that his followers carry out extortion, kidnapping and drug trafficking.
The majority of the extortion cases, kidnappings and assassinations are carried out by them.
In other words, they run an extortion racket, and the money goes into their own pockets.
The Center believes that the United States must not accede to such anti-democratic extortion.
The extortion epidemic has badly hit a business community already affected by an industrial slowdown.
Police say the extortion rackets are partly run by two crime dons living overseas.
The MRTA used kidnapping and extortion as well as drug trafficking to finance their activities.
Private businessmen and even oligarchs complain about the lack of rules and bureaucratic extortion.
It was all UNNECESSARY, if only FBAR compliance, and not penalty extortion, the main objective.
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He then pointed fingers at five powerful lawmakers, accusing them variously of smuggling, bribery and attempted extortion.
"It's absolutely a form of extortion, " says attorney David Stetler, who successfully defended TAP exec Alan MacKenzie.
Frind alleges attempted extortion it sounds like Russo asked for compensation to help fix the breach.
The Zetas traffic drugs, but their specialties are kidnapping, extortion, murder, robbery, human smuggling, and product piracy.
But elsewhere, impoverished militia groups appear to be reverting to old ways - turning to banditry and extortion.
Enemies often accuse MQM of being an organization routinely involved in murders, extortion and intimidation charges the party denies.
His underlings levied arbitrary taxes on the Lebanese, and practiced other forms of extortion, car theft and racketeering.
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