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The top official responsible for investigating corruption issues in Nigeria has been sent away for one year to undergo “training”.
From the International Herald Tribune:
Nigeria’s anti-corruption chief, whose investigations have ensnared some of the country’s wealthiest politicians and officials, will be sent to a year-long training course in a remote police academy, according to senior law [...]

The BBC is reporting that the entire police force in the town of Rosarito has been stripped of its weapons due to concerns that the police force has been working with drug trafficking organizations.
The Mexican army has confiscated guns from the entire police force of the town of Rosarito, near the Mexican border with the US.
Mexican [...]

From Threat Level:
According to the study by Digital Music News and BigChampagne, about 36 percent of the world’s personal computers are equipped with LimeWire, the peer-to-peer program at the center of a bitter copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America. That’s up from 34 percent the year before.

Over 1 billion songs [...]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced yesterday that they had dismantled a group in Montreal that illegally distributed copies of television shows.
From the AFP:
n a statement, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said the Montreal group reproduced popular television shows such as “The Six Million-Dollar Man” and “Ally McBeal” using 200 DVD burners capable of [...]

Could this be a sign of the levels of corruption in China?
From the New York Times:
A Web site created by China’s anti-corruption bureau crashed after it began operating on Tuesday, overwhelmed by traffic from people wishing to file complaints, according to the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has released their annual Drug Situation in Canada 2006 report.
Among the main highlights from CTV.ca:
In a two-year period, Canada has become a net exporter of ecstasy, once known as the “rave” drug but now available at a wide range of youth-oriented venues.
“Between late 2005 and 2006, Canada replaced the Netherlands [...]

Two men in Israel were sentenced yesterday for trafficking humans for the sole purpose of harvesting their organs. In the indictment, kidneys were harvested at prices between $125,000 to $135,000. Like other activities of the black market, service providers are able to manipulate and control the consumers because of the lack of government oversight and legal [...]

The International Herald Tribune reports on the shipping route that counterfeit drugs pass through before ending up in consumers hands.
Three months ago, when the authorities announced that they had seized a large cache of counterfeit drugs from Euro Gulf’s warehouse deep inside a sprawling free trade zone here, they gave no hint of the raid’s [...]

A new report published by the United Nations claims that the counterfeit goods trade is being controlled by organized crime syndicates.
From the AP:
Counterfeiting is a dangerous and growing enterprise controlled by organized criminals who are exploiting the same trade routes used for trafficking drugs, arms and human beings, the United Nations said in a report released [...]

China is currently preventing US films from being shown in its country in retaliation to a intellectual property case filed at the WTO.
From the New York Times:
The Chinese government has not announced any ban, but American movies are no longer being approved for release early next year, according to the officials, who spoke on the [...]