10 most famous criminal gangs

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Hollywood convinces us that members of criminal communities are exceptionally sweet, kind people, full of spiritual nobility, who only appeared among gangsters by the will of cruel fate. Most of them are handsome Italians in expensive suits from Armani, who smoke cigars and throw rare, but significant cues. Meanwhile, in reality, organized crime syndicates exist in every country, and the stronger their influence and numbers, the rougher the methods of influence. There are few countries and communities in the world that have not suffered from organized crime - racketeering and extortion (at the level of small business) or drug trafficking (at the international level).

We have compiled a rating of the most famous criminal groups in the world with an indication of the region of their operation, areas of criminal "specialization" and the name of the leader (if known).

No. 10 - “Five Families”

Region of operation: USA

Spheres of criminal activity: betting, gangster usury, racketeering, extortion, gambling, drug trafficking

Leader: Vincent Baskiano, Nicholas Corozzo, Carmine Persico, Daniel Leo, Vittorio Amuso

Five families of the American mafia (mainly from New York) - the Bonnano, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese clans - have been controlling organized crime in the United States since the time of the Great Depression (1929 - 1933). Despite the efforts of the FBI and the New York prosecutor's office, their influence is still strong, although not what it used to be. The largest and most influential of the five families is the Genovese clan. The ancestor of the American "goat nostra" is considered the infamous Lucky Luciano - a member of the Sicilian mafia, who in the mid-1920s. he emigrated to the USA and brought with him not only luggage, but also the methods of influence of the Italian mafia.

No. 9 - United Bamboo

Region of operation: Taiwan

Areas of criminal activity: “knocking out” debts, contract killings, usury, gambling, bribery.

Leader: Unknown.

Taiwan's main and largest organized crime group, which has about 10,000 members. “United Bamboo” operates according to rather old-fashioned principles: above all, members of the triad value unity and “harmony with people.”

United Bamboo is also suspected of drug trafficking and higher political relations (in particular, with the ruling Taiwanese KMT party), although triad leaders have denied these connections. United Bamboo operates throughout Asia, the Pacific, Europe and both Americas. Unlike other criminal syndicates, the United Bamboo is headed by more than one person; a more complex (horizontal) hierarchy operates in it.

No. 8 - Tijuana Cartel

Region of operation: northwest of Mexico (Tijuana and Baja)

Spheres of criminal activity: drug trafficking, contract killings, bribery, banditry

Leader: Eduardo Arellano Felix

The collapse of the Colombian cartels in the 1990s created a vacuum in South America, which was more than successfully filled by three Mexican cartels: Sinaloa (leader - Joaquin Guzman), Juarez (leader - Vicente Carrillo Fuentes) and Tijuana cartel (possible leader - Eduardo Arellano Felix )

The Tijuana cartel, also known as the Arellano Felix Organization (AFO), is considered the most brutal and aggressive of the three. It is clear that there is a constant war between cartels, in which dozens of people die every year. According to some reports, the UAF pays more than a million dollars of bribes every week to stay in business.

No. 7 - "Tai Huen Tea"

Region of operation: China

Areas of criminal activity: drug trafficking, usury, human trafficking, fraud, prostitution, extortion.

Leader: no

Tai Huen Tea (Big Circle Boys), China's largest and most powerful criminal group, is an unexpected “by-product” of the cultural revolution hosted by Mao Zedong. After the death of the “great helmsman”, most of the Red Guard soldiers (hunweibins) were sent to re-education camps, where they were subjected to monstrous humiliation and cruel torture. It is not surprising that they left the camps even more embittered and cruel than before. Unlike other criminal syndicates, Tai Huen Tea does not have a specific organizational structure; therefore, members of the group are even compared to non-invaders who met to play basketball. They are unfamiliar with each other, their identity is unknown, but scandalous fame is booming throughout Asia, America and Australia.

No. 6 - The Sicilian Mafia

Region of operation: Sicily

Areas of criminal activity: arms and drug trafficking, corruption, contract killings, arson, fraud, counterfeiting.

Leader: Matteo Messina Denaro

The Sicilian Mafia is a criminal community organized on a territorial basis, which includes about 100 families. The mafia appeared in the middle of the XIX century, but as an influential and organized force, it finally formed only at the beginning of the XX century. When Lucky Luciano "exported" the mafia to the United States in the early 1930s, the number of members of the mafia began to grow rapidly. According to some experts, today the size of this criminal community exceeds 2500 members (only in America).

The power in Sicily, the mafia was able to conquer and hold thanks to the control of construction contracts. Having received the necessary influence and money, the mafia began to engage in the sale of drugs and weapons. Despite a series of boss arrests, he retains influence not only in Sicily, but throughout the country. In the mid-1990s, the Sicilian mafia recalled its existence: it organized the killing of two members of an Italian magistrate.

No. 5 - 14K

Region of operation: Hong Kong

Spheres of criminal activity: racketeering, extortion, contract killings, kidnapping for ransom, gambling, prostitution, usury, trafficking in persons, drugs and weapons, counterfeiting money.

Leader: unknown

14K is the largest, strongest, and most ruthless of the Hong Kong triads. In the 1990s, 14K was considered the largest criminal community in the world until a trial of the leader of one of the many cells of the triad took place in Portugal. The region of influence of 14K spread throughout Asia, its "representative offices" operate in all major American cities. The triad does not disdain in any way to dishonestly make money, it is accused of almost all crimes provided for by law.

No. 4 - “Battalion D”

Region of operation: India and the United Arab Emirates

Spheres of criminal activity: arms and drug trafficking, terrorism, extortion and racketeering, counterfeiting, contract killings

Leader: Daud Ibrahim

Battalion D is India’s leading criminal gang led by Daoud Ibrahim, an internationally wanted criminal. Battalion D is accused of having links with Islamic terrorist organizations (Al Qaeda and the Taliban) and carrying out their orders in India. She is credited with responsibility for a series of bombings in Bombay in 1993, when 257 people died and more than 700 were injured. Ibrahim is widely known in India, he even has professional interests in Bollywood. According to U.S. intelligence, Ibrahim is currently hiding in Pakistan, and had previously undergone a series of plastic surgeries.

No. 3 - Ndranghetta

Region of operation: Calabria (Southern Italy)

Spheres of criminal activity: drug trafficking, contract killings, racketeering and extortion

Leader: horizontal hierarchy

Ndranghetta is a criminal organization operating in the Italian region of Calabria. Unlike other regional criminal gangs, which are constantly reducing the zone of influence, Calabrians are expanding their controlled territory, and cases of betrayal are practically unknown here. Today, more than 10,000 people are members of ndranghetta, and its annual income is tens of billions of dollars. Ndranghetta is Europe’s largest cocaine supplier, but the group paved the way for power and big money through fast-food restaurants.

No. 2 - Yamaguchi Gumi

Region of operation: Kobe, Japan

Spheres of criminal activity: extortion, gambling, arms and drug trafficking, prostitution, usury

Leader: Shinobu Tsukasa (real name: Kenichi Shinoda)

Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest Japanese yakuza clan with its capital in the city of Kobe, founded back in 1915. The status of the most cruel and influential clan, Yamaguchi-gumi, was received thanks to its leader, Kazuo Taoke. The influence of Taoke was so great that after his death in 1981, Yamaguchi-gumi was on the verge of collapse. Composition - 40,000 people. Since 2005, the group has been headed by a diplomatic, but no less cruel, than the legendary Taoke, Shinobu Tsukasa. He is trying to expand the group's sphere of influence north of Tokyo, although he is currently serving a term for carrying firearms.

No. 1 - Solntsevskaya brotherhood

Region of operation: Moscow, Russia

Spheres of criminal activity: racketeering, extortion, drug and weapon trade, car theft, trade in stolen art objects, money laundering, contract killings, nuclear material trade, prostitution, oil

Leader: Sergey Mikhailov

Former FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson called the Russian mafia "the most dangerous criminals on earth." This statement is especially terrifying, considering that today, according to the most conservative estimates, about 300,000 people are in its composition.

The “brotherhood” includes 450 groups, the most famous of which is the Solntsevo brotherhood - a criminal syndicate, which is particularly cruel. The leader of the Solntsevo brotherhood is allegedly Sergei Mikhailov, tempered by imprisonment in a camp, where he established contacts with many criminal "authorities", in particular, Semen Mogilevich, known throughout the world.

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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

Thanks for working on the Forum.

 

[Роберт]

Well, finally offended. And the Tambov ones, Kumarina-Barsukova. After all, he was friends with the President!

 

[Роберт]

With valid: D

 

[Роберт]

And why is it Solntsevsky in St. Petersburg never popped and never poked ?! AND?! And looking from thieves in law in St. Petersburg there. And Grandfather Hassan constantly lived in St. Petersburg and no one dared to touch him ?! Someone’s?

 

[Роберт]

And another question, why is the Russian FBI mafia so pissing in America that they are ready to sign all extradition agreements? : D This is a question for Steve, although he, as always, has nothing to do with it. These are all Russian thugs: D
This is me, as the FBI advanced training courses, I say. Most of the guys there are sad from these Russian gangsters. Anyway.

 

[Частный детектив Самара.]

Calm down, finally, Robert. What to react like that, the more ten-year information at least

 

[Плотников Юрий Михайлович]

Thank!

 

[Турабян Владимир]

THANK!!!

 

[Марат]

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