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Spanish Police Target Chinese Mafia

Spanish authorities have busted suspected Chinese mob rings in Madrid, Barcelona and other cities which allegedly were involved in a wide range of rackets from horrible street crimes including human trafficking and forced prostitution to sophisticated financial crimes such as money laundering and tax fraud as reported by CNN.

Repentant Hitman Gets 25 Years

Hoa Duc Nguyen, a Vietnamese hitman for a Chinese gang in Queens, NY, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after admitting his role "in at least three murders for his vicious criminal mentor, Hui Sin 'Frank' Ma" whom he later helped the feds to bring down as reported by Bruce Golding for the New York Post:  "prosecutor Michael Rosensaft . . . sought a break for Nguyen, saying he 'obviously has a very extensive and horrific criminal history,' but 'no doubt saved lives in the end' by switching sides."

Child Trafficking Rings Busted In China

More than 600 people have been arrested and nearly 200 children rescued as cops raided two suspected child-trafficking gangs which operated in ten provinces acrosss China as reported by BBC News: 

Critics blame China's one-child policy and lax adoption laws, which they say have created a thriving underground market for buying children. * * * Families may also buy trafficked women and children to use as extra labour and household servants, as well as brides for unmarried sons.

Meanwhile, China has executed Wang Ziqi, the madam of the Bright Spot Teahouse in Chongqing's grimy Yuzhong district, for violently enslaving hundreds of women to work as prostitutes as reported by Malcolm Moore for The Telegraph:  "Ms Wang, who ran the brothel with her sister, Wang Wanning, was also reputed to be the mistress of Wen Qiang, the 55-year-old deputy police commissioner and justice bureau chief who was secretly also one of the city's most powerful mafia godfathers."

Police: Chinese Mafia Busted In Barcelona, Spain

The Chinese Mafia is in the party racket in Barcelona, Spain, and police have busted 39 individuals for their alleged roles in trafficking girls and drugs as reported by Al Goodman for CNN:  "In recent years, the Chinese crime syndicate had crowded out others from the prostitution market in the fashionable Eixample district of Barcelona by using forced prostitution and charging below-market rates."  Thirty women allegedly forced into the sex trade were rescued during the raids, and several of them were infected with HIV as reported by AFP.

Feds Oppose Bail For Accused Chinese Boss

Last week the feds charged Wei Xing Chen for his alleged role in running a criminal enterprise involving the trafficking girls and drugs in the Chinatown section of Boston, MA, and prosecutors want to keep him in jail pending trial as reported by Milton J. Valencia for The Boston Globe:

"He's really a career criminal," Assistant US Attorney Timothy Moran said in court yesterday, arguing that Chen should remain behind bars. "He has no legitimate occupation. He doesn't do anything legitimate. His whole life is involved in crime. He knows he's breaking the law and it just doesn't matter to him."