News / Golden State fast becoming a 'goldmine' for organised cargo crime

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Cargo crime “is really going through the roof everywhere, globally”, according to the president and CEO of the Transport Asset Protection Association (TAPA) EMEA, Thorsten Neumann; but a reluctancy to act by crime prevention authorities and a high cost of living is making the US a hotspot.  

“When the economy is going down, crime is always going up…  High pricing and inflation means automatically that criminal activities are going up,” Mr Neumann explained. 

And Brandon Fried, executive director of the American ...