Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A CSIS Statesmen's Forum with U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey was quoted by the Washington Post, "Justice Dept. Sees Surge in Global Crime Networks."
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A CSIS Statesmen's Forum with U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey was quoted by the Washington Post, "Justice Dept. Sees Surge in Global Crime Networks."
At least three times this year, from a computer station in Romania, a hacker nicknamed Vladuz posed as an eBay customer service representative in a bid to steal sensitive information from Americans who visited the popular auction Web site.
The man, part of a fraud ring controlled by a foreign criminal syndicate, was captured by Romanian police last week with the help of agents from the FBI and the Secret Service. Justice Department officials cited the case of Vladuz, also known as Vlad Duiculescu, to sound an alarm yesterday about a resurgence in organized crime that recognizes no national borders.
Speaking to an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey offered praise for the successful efforts by Robert F. Kennedy decades ago to break the back of the Italian American mafia but told listeners that the current threat from international syndicates poses even greater challenges.
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