Black Market Billions: How Organized Retail Crime Funds Global Terrorists (Gal Zentner's Library) (46 page)

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as low-risk crime,
91-93
money laundering,
139-141
,
185-188
banking regulations and,
145-150
Black Market Peso Exchange,
152-155
credit card fraud,
231-234
hawalas,
142-144
,
224-227
RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act),
234-238
South American, Mexican, and African connection,
155-157
stored value cards,
227-231
via cigarette smuggling,
183-192
overview of,
4
pirated merchandise.
See
pirated merchandise
policing of,
67-68
case study: Albuquerque Police Department,
72-74
case study: Los Angeles Police Department,
68-72
preventative measures
case study: Arden Fair Mall (Sacramento, CA),
201-205
defining ORC versus shopliting and shrinkage,
215-216
failures,
204-207
regulation of resale market,
216-217
retail returns fraud,
106-108
shell stores,
87-91
shell warehouses
explained,
80-81
profile of,
81-83
smuggling
bulk cash smuggling,
228
cigarette smuggling,
183-192
of PlayStations into South America,
180-182
of TVs into Pakistan,
183
stolen merchandise.
See
stolen merchandise
threat of,
11-13
trust factor,
136-138
wholesalers,
61-63

Ordine Nuovo (New Order),
140

organized crime rings (ORCs),
24

organized retail crime.
See
ORC (organized retail crime)

Organized Retail Theft Investigation and Prosecution Act of 2010,
212

Osama bin Laden,
129
,
134
,
170
,
189
,
243

over-the-counter drugs, theft of,
84-86

Oxycontin, theft of,
85

P

Padilla, Jose,
21

Pakistan Electronics Manufacturers Association,
181

Palmer, Jared,
65
,
67
,
85

Parker, Trey,
162

Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan.
See
PKK (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan)

Parvonis Research,
93

passive terrorist sympathizers,
140

passports, counterfeit,
127-132

Patriot Act,
66-67
,
93
,
148-150
,
220-222

Patterson, Gregory,
20

PayPal,
43

Pearl, Daniel,
19
,
181-182

Pedraza, Milton,
32

Peekaboo handbag (Fendi),
32

Perez, Pablo,
196

pharmaceuticals, theft of,
84-86

pirated merchandise

case study: Fendi,
31-32
Coach case study,
34-36
consumer demand for,
38-39
eBay response,
42-44
and funding of terrorist organizations,
48-51
online sales of,
40-42
policing of,
39-40
sales by street vendors,
48-51

PKK (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan),
11
,
186
,
240

Plan Satan,
180

PlayStations, smuggling into South America,
182

policing of ORC (organized retail crime),
67

case study: Albuquerque Police Department,
72-74
case study: Los Angeles Police Department,
68-72
pirated/counterfeit merchandise,
39-40

Premium Knowledge Group,
38

preventative measures

against boosters/fences,
115-118
case study: Arden Fair Mall (Sacramento, CA),
201-205
defining ORC versus shoplifting and shrinkage,
215-216
failures,
204-207
regulation of resale market,
216-217

Prilosec, street value of,
104

prison inmates, recruitment by Muslim extremists,
19-21

professional fences,
100

Prudencio, Harold,
99
,
113

Purdue Pharma Technologies, Inc.,
85

Q-R

Queen of Sheba (store),
62

Raad, Mohammed,
28

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
See
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Rahim al-Nashiri,
129

Rasulullah,
167

RBS Worldpay,
232

Red Brigade,
140

Red Compound (Virginia),
19

Reed, Steven,
201-205

regulation

banking regulation failures
hawalas,
224-227
in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and Somalia,
223-224
of resale market,
216-217

Report of International Transportation of Currency and Monetary Instruments (CMIR),
227

resale market, regulation of,
216-217

Rescorla, Rick,
69

Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA),
13
,
62
,
211

Retail Information Systems (RIS) Store Systems Study,
205

retail returns fraud,
106-108

Retail Ventures Inc. (RVI),
34

retailers

blame game,
54
costs of ORC (organized retail crime),
53-54
employee theft
insider information,
54-56
scope of,
56-59
flea markets,
91
shell stores,
87-91
shrinkage,
54
stolen merchandise.
See
stolen merchandise

returns fraud,
106-108

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),
60

revolutionmuslim.com,
160-163

RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act),
216
,
234-238

RILA (Retail Industry Leaders Association),
13
,
62
,
211

RIS (Retail Information Systems) Store Systems Study,
205

risk of ORC (organized retail crime),
91-93

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, cigarette smuggling,
183-188

RJR companies

cigarette smuggling,
183-188
money laundering,
185-188

Robbin, Bema,
19

Roberts, John Jr.,
240

Rockefeller, Nelson,
179

Rodner, Derek,
209

Rodriguez, George,
65-66

Rosemont Wholesale,
214

rotteneggs.com,
107

Roundtree, Ronald Gerald,
19

round-tripping,
189

Royal Bank of Scotland,
232

runners.
See
boosters

RVI (Retail Ventures Inc.),
34

Ryder, Winona,
92

S

Sacramento Police Department (SACPD), partnership with Arden Fair Mall,
202-204

Safadi, Khaled T.,
30
,
50
,
63
,
126
,
133
,
182

Saks Fifth Avenue,
57

sales tax revenues, effect of ORC (organized retail crime) on,
210-212

Samana, Hammad,
20

Sanaullah, Rana,
170

SARs (suspicious activity reports),
147

Schultz, Ray,
74

Scott, Bobby,
212

Scott, Robert C.,
138

SDGT (Specially Designated Global Terrorist),
133

Sears,
57

Second Life,
230

Secret Service,
71

SED (Shipper’s Export Declarations),
126

shadow banking,
45

Shahzad, Faisal,
17
,
25
,
47
,
139-142
,
162-165
,
219-220

Shaykh Ahmed Nur Jimale,
144

shell corporations,
26

shell stores,
87-91

shell warehouses

explained,
80-81
profile of,
81-83

Shipper’s Export Declarations (SED),
126

shoplifting

costs of,
208
as low-risk crime,
92
versus ORC (organized retail crime),
215-216

shopping.com,
43

shrinkage,
54
,
215-216

Simcox, David,
130

Simms, Keisha Janelle,
19

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