Extortion rackets threaten entire industries in Cape Town. The situation has been worsening for years, throughout South Africa. Can an anti-extortion summit halt the trend? Protection rackets are not ...

Dilip alias Binas is an underworld criminal currently living abroad, though his political identity could not be confirmed, says DB chief Md Shafiqul Islam.

As governments across Latin America devise new ways to curb the operations of drug cartels and other criminal groups, those same organizations have increasingly turned to other crimes like extortion ...