IN DEPTH: SINGAPORE - ALL THE TRAFFICKING IN THE WORLD WAS THERE
Italy's Calabrian Mafia, known as the ‘Ndrangheta, is a global organisation which reportedly earned $70 billion in 2007. Francesco Fonti, an ex-boss, currently in jail in Italy, says: "Singapore was a favourite haunt – "all the trafficking in the world was there ... ships, missiles". Singapore has brothels. Orchard Towers, for example, is "four floors of whores". In Singapore, the travel writer Paul Theroux came across young girls for sale.