The Secret Service in March thwarted a crime ring in nine states, arresting 19 individuals.

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In 1998 an Australian crime ring was caught hawking knockoffs of the famed 1990 Penfolds Grange.

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The techniques deployed by the crime ring ran the gamut, from child ID theft to setting up fake stores to process credit card payments.

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However, last year the FBI, working in conjunction with the Estonian police, seized the servers used by the cybercriminals and broke up the crime ring behind the operations.

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In February, Singapore police said they were questioning the alleged leader of the crime syndicate, Dan Tan Seet Eng, and had tipped off Italian authorities with information about the alleged crime ring.

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The allegation is part of Singapore's first prosecution of soccer corruption offenses since the city-state was named in February by European investigators as a base for a global crime ring that was fixing hundreds of matches across the world.

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Singapore's investigation of the officials comes weeks after the city-state's police said they were boosting efforts to tackle soccer corruption, following allegations from international investigators that a global crime ring was fixing hundreds of soccer matches out of its base in Singapore.

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The indictments handed down against 73 people, many of whom are associated with an Armenian-American crime group, charge that the ring was submitting fraudulent bills for medically unnecessary treatments or treatments that were never actually performed.

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The Police and Crime Panel approved the rise, and said the money should be ring-fenced for extra officers.

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