THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1990
THE
CONFERENCE,
THE
SECOND
IN
TWO
YEARS JAPANESE AUTHORITIES, WAS INITIATED BY THE COUNTRY'S AGENCY.
HOSTED
BY
THE
NATIONAL POLICE
PARTICIPANTS
NUMBERING NEARLY 40 INCLUDED ORGANISED CRIME
INDONESIA,
THE PHILIPPINES, MALAYSIA, EXPERTS FROM BRUNEI,
SOUTH KOREA, SINGAPORE, THAILAND, HONG KONG AND THE HOST COUNTRY.
IT WAS DURING
THE CONFERENCE
―
-
DELEGATES FROM
CONSENTED TO SUPPORT A
THE
US,
TO THE
CANADA AND AUSTRALIA
THAT ATTENDING AS OBSERVERS
WAS
BASIS NO
FORCE'S ASSESSMENT THAT THERE
BELIEF THAT HONG KONG TRIADS HAD EXTENDED THEIR INFLUENCE CRIME BEYOND THE TERRITORY.
WHILE THE POTENTIAL FOR
COMMON TO CONTROL
HONG KONG PARTICIPATING
TRIAD PERSONALITIES FROM GOING OVERSEAS DID DRAW INTEREST FROM OTHER COUNTRIES, PARTICIPANTS AGREED THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE TO THIS WAS THE CASE AT THE MOMENT.
SUGGEST
DELEGATES
FROM SINGAPORE AND
MALAYSIA
FORCE'S VIEWS THAT TRIADS WERE NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH ORGANISED CRIME.
ALSO ENDORSED THE
OWN RIGHT," MR
"THEY ARE LINKED BUT EACH IS A PROBLEM IN ITS MAIN EXPLAINED.
CULTURES,
REGARDLESS OF OPERATE IN AND ENTERTAINMENT,
IS "ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
OBVIOUS IS
THAT, ORGANISED CRIME TENDS NATIONALITIES AND LARGELY SIMILAR AREAS VICE, NARCOTICS, GAMBLING BTC" HE ADDED.
TO
CRIME RACKETS, MR SOME DISADVANTAGES WHEN
IN TERMS OF LEGAL MUSCLE AGAINST ORGANISED MAIN SAID HONG KONG HAD SOME ADVANTAGES AND COMPARED WITH LEGISLATION IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
ON THE ORGANISED CRIME ARE CLOSE
JAPAN,
NO
HOWEVER, HONG KONG IS ALWAYS REVIEWING ITS LEGISLATION.
FRONT BETWEEN HONG KONG AND
MR MAIN SAID THERE WAS TRADING PARTNERS,
INVOLVEMENT OF INDICATION THAT SUGGESTED CRIMINAL
THE "BORYOKUDAN" (JAPANESE CRIMINAL GANGS) IN HONG KONG, AND VICE VERSA.
WHICH
AND
EQUALLY,
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OVERSEAS GO "OBVIOUSLY, TRIAD PERSONALITIES DO MEMBERS OF THE JAPANESE TRIADS DO COME TO HONG KONG AND GO ELSEWHERE, HE SAID.
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