In many cases, the actions of the criminal syndicates have been direct or even violent.

The real problem is states that operate like criminal syndicates.

Left long enough, an operation like this can become a full-fledged criminal syndicate within a few years.

Certainly not a competing smuggling operation or one of the established criminal syndicates.

They believe they're working for a domestic criminal syndicate.

I need these arms and this ammunition you have on board to equip the greatest criminal syndicate the world has ever known.

A minority of the immigrants formed criminal syndicates, living alongside each other.

Those belonging to organized criminal syndicates attack with more sophistication and planning.

What worries law enforcement officials most is that international criminal syndicates are increasingly getting involved in illegal immigration.

Almost every week, the media were full of Santiago's exploits against criminal syndicates.