Alain Lallemand, Belgium, is a senior investigative reporter for Le Soir, the leading French-language Brussels daily.

He has written extensively on organized crime, drug trafficking and guerrillas as well as more than half a dozen books on the Russian mafia in Europe, the boom of synthetic drugs, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

His 1996 book on the Russian mafia was one of the earliest in-depth investigations into the activities of this new transnational criminal threat.

Lallemand is also a lecturer in narrative and investigative writing at the University of Louvain.

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Drugs, diamonds and deadly cargoes

When he was arrested on a drug charge in Milan, Leonid Minin, an arms trader under investigation across Europe, had his business records with him, providing a detailed look into the world of war commerce.

Nov 18, 2002
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Investigation: Making a Killing

The field marshal

An arms trader who admitted to breaking a U.N. arms embargo also claimed ties to French intelligence, the Iranian government, and the since-bought-out oil company, Elf Aquitaine.

Nov 15, 2002
Investigation: Making a Killing