You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.
I understand that finance can be very complex.
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.
There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.
If you want to get into the United States, the best way, I believe, is to ride the network. There is no convergence between, say, the criminal networks and the Islamic extremist networks.