COPS' SECRET PLAN TO TARGET TRIADS; Crackdown on credit card con.Byline: EXCLUSIVE by RON MOORE Chief Reporter TOP cops Top Cops was a documetary program broadcast in the United States on the CBS television network from 1990 to 1993. Each episode of Top Cops consisted of two to three segments featuring commended police officers and dramatic recreations of the events leading to have held a secret summit to fight Triad gangsters raking in millions from credit card scams. Detectives are desperate to stop identity theft and credit card cloning, which cons up to pounds 100million a year out of innocent Scots consumers and businesses. And a crack squad could try to infiltrate infiltrate /in·fil·trate/ (in-fil´trat) 1. to penetrate the interstices of a tissue or substance. 2. the material or solution so deposited. in·fil·trate v. 1. Chinese crime gangs operating out of Glasgow. A senior police source said: "The Triads are easily the best at identity theft and using cloned credit cards. "The Chinese communities spread around the world have first class networks at moving money around and these transactions are virtually untraceable." More than 100,000 people each year are ripped off by ID theft - costing the UK pounds 1.3billion annually. New cards are often stolen before reaching customers who don't realise they have been stung until it's too late. The highly organised gangs then channel the proceeds abroad via business contacts. The source added: "Glasgow has the fourth-largest Chinese population in the UK and with strong contacts in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , the US, Canada and Europe, these gangs are really good at it. "There are now major worries at the highest level over organised crime in Scotland's Chinese community." Police are also targeting prostitution, human trafficking, fake passports, drug smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain and unreported violence in Asian communities. Vice cops recently raided a Glasgow sex sauna owned by Triads but fronted by a businessman. Illegal immigrants from countries such as Romania, Thailand and China have been coerced into the sex for sale business in Scotland. CAPTION(S): CHINESE FAKE-AWAY: Gangs steal identities to get at cash |
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