Crime World Extra: The 'Cocaine Goldrush'

The killing of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods, whose body was dismembered and dumped as a message to rivals of gangland psycho Robbie Lawlor, was a seismic event in modern organised crime.It followed the fracturing of a major drug gang where a younger mob took on the older order f ...  Show more

Kinahan underboss Sean McGovern has pleaded guilty today to two charges of directing a criminal organisation - one relating to the murder of Noel 'Duck Egg' Kirwan and a second surrounding a plot to kill James 'Mago' Gately.McGovern who is Daniel Kinahan’s right hand man faces up ...  Show more

In recent years, another one of Italy's feared criminal groups has risen above the Sicilian Mafia to become among the most powerful organized crime groups in the world: The Calabrian 'Ndrangheta. Started as a self-defense militia centuries ago to protect against pirates and raide ...  Show more

In the Port of Rotterdam they are preparing for a ‘White Xmas’ - but no one is talking about snow. Europe’s North Sea coast has overtaken the Iberian peninsula as the primary point of entry for cocaine reaching the continent. Industrial-sized labs have been busted in the Netherla ...  Show more

Coming on 9 June - Inside the global cocaine industry, where profits are counted up in millions and losses measured out in murders. This worldwide investigation from The Times, Sunday Times and NewsCorp Australia, reveals how the drug business works like any multi-billion dollar ...  Show more

In the grip of a drugs crisis, the country took a radical approach in 2001 and became the first country in the world to decriminalise all drugs for personal use. Drug abuse and addiction began to be seen as a public health issue, not a criminal offence. Initial resistance to the ...  Show more