41.   Angry opposition MPs charged the government with presenting a truncated report to the house Tuesday on the links between politicians and crime gangs.

42.   Catania is the Mafia stronghold in eastern Sicily, with unemployment and indebtedness high and has long been considered irredeemably dominated by the organised crime gangs.

43.   Civilians continue to fall victim to the rival factions and crime gangs vying for power and influence in a country still haunted by the spectre of famine.

44.   Crime gangs had abandoned the more high-risk illicit drug smuggling to concentrate on the high-profit, low-risk contraband cigarette trade.

45.   Croat police launched a crackdown on crime gangs in the Prozor area earlier this week.

46.   The smashing of the Nam Cam crime gang by a special police team from Hanoi late last year has prompted a spate of arrests across Ho Chi Minh City.

47.   They believe the notorious crime gang Fuk Ching may be responsible.

48.   It was established following the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin by a crime gang she was writing about.

49.   Most crimes have economic underpinnings as crime gangs settle scores or carry out violent robberies.

50.   Other theories pointing to the role of the extreme right or the Yakuza crime gangs also lack evidence.