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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,

++

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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