Nowadays, this would be considered a criminal cartel.
In fact, Celia would return to Gotham many years later, as "Athena," the leader of a criminal cartel.
Tax havens seem to provide cover for criminal cartels, tax avoidance by the very rich, and abuse of developing countries.
Powers for investigating criminal cartels (119 kb)
"Are you familiar with an international criminal cartel we've come to call the One-Sixty-Fivers?"
But the government is concerned that foreign powers (as well as terrorists and criminal cartels) might obtain cryptography that is uncrackable.
Without a foreign foe, its 183,000 uniformed men fight the enemy within: big criminal cartels and small bands of rural guerrillas.
Later the design and specifications for it were sold to the criminal cartel, The Maggia, who built the Silver Dreadnought.
In multiplayer mode it pits four players as criminal cartels in a race to gain money and turf.
Attempts to interdict foreign supplies often result in introducing more potent and more dangerous drugs, and enrich criminal cartels.