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State of Washington
Commission on Judicial Conduct
Commission on Judicial Conduct
P.O. Box 1817
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(360) 753-4585
By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent
5:00AM BST 03 Jun 2014
New offence to be announced in the Queen's Speech will make it an offence to turn a blind eye to criminal behaviour on your property - with a punishment of up to five years in jail
Landlords who knowingly lease premises to criminal gangs will face up to five years’ imprisonment under new measures to be included in the Queen’s Speech.
The owners of residential properties could be prosecuted for “participation in an organised crime group” if they fail to report suspicions that premises are being used for crime.
The new offence will also apply to commercial landlords and others who provide services such as transport or parcel delivery.
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South Africa: Gangster landlord continues campaign of intimidation with police support
Posted By
bomvu
May 13 2008 15:14
The poor of Motala Heights, affiliated to Abahlali baseMjondolo since 2006, are fighting a bitter battle against eviction against a local gangster business man and the local state. There have recently been death threats and threats of arson and the local cops are acting as the gangsters' enforcers.
London anarchist, Antonios Vradis lived in the community for a while in late 2006 from and it was here that the anarchist magazine Voices of Resistance from Occupied London was conceived. The former Camberwell Squatted Social Centre organised solidarity with Motala Heights in London.
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Motala Heights Crisis Deepens as Violent Intimidation Against the Strong Poor Continues
Gangster Landlord Continues Campaign of Intimidation with the Support of the Pinetown Police
The community of Motala Heights, set on the edge of Pinetown between the factories and the hill that runs up to Kloof, dates back to the early years of the last century and has a rich history. For the last three years it has been under sustained and violent attack from a local gangster businessman who seems to be able to direct the local state, including the police and the Municipality's Housing Department, at will.
The community is now made up of a wealthy suburb with the big, new mostly face brick houses of the rich in the centre. Behind them are hidden the old tin houses of the poor families and, amongst the gumtrees up on the hill leading up to Kloof, a shack settlement. For some time local businessman and known gangster Ricky Govender has been buying up land and using intimidatory tactics to illegally evict the poor. His attempts to illegally drive out the mostly Indian families from the tin houses, most of whom were born and have lived their whole lives in the community, dates back to at least 2005. He has also been directly implicated in the violent and illegal attempts by the eThekwini Municipality to evict the mostly African shack dwellers which date back to 2006.
http://www.alexinwanderland.com/2012/05 ... from-hell/
Why not go to the police, you ask? I tried. Our landlord was a powerful man on the island and the police said full stop that they would not get involved with him, no matter what he did. Make no mistake… this is no poverty-striken man trying to make enough money to feed his family by charging privileged white people a few extra bucks. This is a wealthy, powerful Thai man who controls several businesses and a lot of property on the island, and who knows what else. For obvious reasons I never went into this aspect of life on Koh Tao much, but it is an island controlled by the Thai mafia, as I learned more and more clearly with every month I lived there. It’s a place where gangsters and hit men are in control, not the police.