The minnows of Triton

Description:

This is a definitive work by a retired senior Australian Federal Police officer on ten years spent travelling to and investigating the inroads made into 16 poorly policed Pacific Island countries by neighbouring and globally dispersed criminal entities seeking to use them to further their illicit activities. It includes money laundering, off-shore banking and Russian and Asian business interests into countries ranging east to west from French Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and from Tonga to the Marshall Islands in the north. Revised annually, the latest edition was published in September 2012 with ISBN 978 0 9808021 1 5

subjects: Politics and government,  Social conditions,  Law enforcement,  Crime

Places: Oceania: Papua New Guinea,  Fiji,  Kiribati,  Tuvalu,  Samoa,  American Samoa,  Cook Islands,  Vanuatu,  Solomon Islands,  New Caledonia,  French Polynesia,  Nauru,  Marshall Islands,  FederatedStates of Micronesia,  Tonga,  Niue and Nauru.

Times: From the mid 1980s to the present