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enterprise Enterprise (or the archaic spelling Enterprize) may refer to: Business and economics Brands and enterprises * Enterprise GP Holdings, an energy holding company * Enterprise plc, a UK civil engineering and maintenance company * Enterprise ...

gang A gang is a group or society of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectivel ...

mafia "Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the original “Mafia”, the Sicilian Mafia and Italian Mafia. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of d ...

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criminal syndicate Organized crime (or organised crime) is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally th ...

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organized crime Organized crime (or organised crime) is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit. While organized crime is generally th ...

. Tongs and outlaw motorcycle gangs, as well as terrorist, militant, and paramilitary groups, are mentioned if they are involved in criminal activity for funding. However, since their stated aim and genesis is often ideological rather than commercial, they are distinct from mafia-type groups.

Drug cartel A drug cartel is any criminal organization with the intention of supplying drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. The term was applied when the ...
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In several drug-producing or transit countries, drug traffickers have taken advantage of local corruption and lack of law enforcement to establish cartels turning in millions if not billions of dollars each year. Sometimes if government enforcement is particularly poor, the cartels become quasi-paramilitary organizations.

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

* Dominican drug cartels ** Paulino organization ** Féliz organization * Bolivian drug cartels ''(See also García Meza regime drug trafficking)'' **

La Corporación La Corporación ("The Corporation"), also known as the Santa Ana Cartel, was a Bolivian drug cartel and criminal organization, headed in the 1970s and 1980s by notorious drug lord Roberto Suárez Goméz, known as the "King of Cocaine". "La Corpo ...

Santa Cruz cartel The Santa Cruz Cartel ( es, Cártel de Santa Cruz) is a Bolivian drug cartel and criminal organization, said to be one of the largest in the country, headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The cartel was responsible for multiple narco-terrori ...

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

n drug cartels ''(see also

Contras The Contras were the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which came to power in 1979 fol ...

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Oscar Danilo Blandón Oscar Danilo Blandón Reyes (born July 29, 1951) is a Nicaraguan born drug trafficker who is best known as one of the main subjects of the 1996 newspaper series "Dark Alliance" by reporter Gary Webb. Blandón was originally a director of agricultu ...

* Peruvian drug cartels ''(see also

Shining Path The Shining Path ( es, Sendero Luminoso), officially the Communist Party of Peru (, abbr. PCP), is a communist Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla group in Peru following Marxism–Leninism–Maoism and Gonzalo Thought. Academics often refer to the gro ...

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Vladimiro Montesinos Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres (born 20 May 1945) is a former long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, National Intelligence Service (SIN), under President Alberto Fujimori. In the year 2000, the infamous "Vladi-videos" came ...

)'' ** Zevallos organisation * Guatemalan drug cartels **

Kaibiles The Kaibiles are a special operations wing of the Armed Forces of Guatemala. They specialize in jungle warfare tactics and counter-insurgency operations. Since 1974, more than 1,250 soldiers have graduated from the international training pro ...

* Honduran drug cartels ** Matta organization **

Cachiros Cachiros or Los Cachiros is the name of a Honduran criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking. It was founded in the early 1990s by a group of cattle farmers in the departments of Colón and Olancho de Honduras. One of the leaders of th ...

* Venezuelan drug cartels ''(see also

Colectivos ''Colectivo'' (English: collective bus) is the name given in Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Paraguay to a type of public transportation vehicle, especially those of Argentina's capital city, Buenos Aires. The name comes from ''vehículos de tran ...

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Cartel of the Suns A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. Cartels are usually associations in the same sphere of business, and thus an alliance of rivals. Mos ...

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

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Paramilitarism in Colombia Right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia ( es, paramilitares de derecha) are paramilitary groups acting Far-right politics, in opposition to revolutionary socialism, revolutionary Marxist-Leninism, Marxist–Leninist Guerrilla movements in Col ...

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Clan del Golfo The Clan del Golfo (English: The Gulf Clan), also known as Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia – AGC) and formerly called Los Urabeños and Clan Úsuga, is a prominent Colombian Paramilitarism in Colo ...

The Office of Envigado La Oficina de Envigado ( en, The Office of Envigado) is a drug cartel and criminal organization originally founded as an enforcement and collections arm of Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel. Despite being noted for its historical affiliation with dr ...

* Bogota Cartel * Guajira Cartel * Los Caparrapos *

National Liberation Army (Colombia) The National Liberation Army (Spanish: ''Ejército de Liberación Nacional'', ELN) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict,

FARC dissidents FARC dissidents (Spanish: ''Disidencias de las Farc''), also known as Carlos Patino Front, refers to a group, formerly part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who have refused to lay down their arms after the Colombian peace pro ...

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Defunct Defunct (no longer in use or active) may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is t ...

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Black Eagles Black Eagles ( es, Águilas Negras) is a term describing a series of Colombian drug trafficking, right-wing, counter-revolutionary, paramilitary organizations made up of new and preexisting paramilitary forces, who emerged from the failures ...

New Generation "New Generation" is the third and final single from the album ''Dog Man Star'' by English rock band Suede, released on 30 January 1995 through Nude Records. It is the first single to feature music by new guitarist Richard Oakes. Though the tit ...

Bloque Meta Bloque Meta (English: Meta Block) was a Colombian drug trafficking, neo-paramilitary organization engaged in the Colombian armed conflict. Bloque Meta's history can be traced back to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC. When the AUC ...

Cali Cartel The Cali Cartel ( es, Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. Its founders were the brothers Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela. They broke away fr ...

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Los Pepes Los Pepes, a name derived from the Spanish phrase "Perseguidos por Pablo Escobar" ("Persecuted by Pablo Escobar"), was a vigilante group composed of enemies of Pablo Escobar. They waged a small-scale war against the Medellín Cartel in 1993, whic ...

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Medellín Cartel The Medellín Cartel ( es, Cartel de Medellín) was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar. It is often considered ...

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Muerte a Secuestradores Muerte a Secuestradores (English: ''Death to Kidnappers'') or MAS, was a Colombian paramilitary group supported by drug cartels, U.S. corporations, Colombian politicians, and wealthy landowners during the 1980s to protect their economic interests ...

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Norte del Valle Cartel The Norte del Valle Cartel ( es, Cártel del Norte del Valle), or North Valley Cartel, was a drug cartel that operated principally in the north of the Valle del Cauca department of Colombia, most notably the coastal city of Buenaventura. It ros ...

North Coast Cartel The North Coast Cartel ( es, Cartel de la Costa or Cartel de la Costa Atlántica) was a drug cartel operating in northern Colombia between in 1980 and 2010, mostly controlling the area of the Colombian Caribbean coast illegal drug trade flow fro ...

* Leticia Cartel *

Libertadores del Vichada Libertadores del Vichada (English: The Liberators of Vichada), was a Colombian drug trafficking neo-paramilitary group involved in the Colombian armed conflict. It is considered to be one of the most important drug trafficking organizations in eas ...

* Los Machos *

Los Nevados Los Nevados National Natural Park ( es, Parque Nacional Natural Los Nevados) is a national park located in the Cordillera Central of the Colombian Andes. The park surrounds the northern volcanic complex formed by Nevado del Ruiz, Nevado del Toli ...

Los Rastrojos Los Rastrojos is a Colombian drug cartel and paramilitary group engaged in the Colombian armed conflict. The ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

* Gulf Cartel **

Los Metros Los Metros is a faction of a Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel. The group was formed in the late 1980s during the reign of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the cartel, to provide security to the organiz ...

Los Rojos Los Rojos is a faction of a Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel. The group was formed in the late 1990s during the reign of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the cartel, to provide security to the organiza ...

Jalisco New Generation Cartel The Jalisco New Generation Cartel ( es, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) or CJNG, formerly known as ''Los Mata Zetas'', is a semi-militarized Mexican criminal group based in Jalisco which is headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Me ...

Juárez Cartel The Juárez Cartel (Spanish: ''Cártel de Juárez''), also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across the Mexico—U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. The cartel is one ...

(possibly defunct) ** La Linea *

Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa Cartel ( es, link=no, Cártel de Sinaloa), also known as the CDS, the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Pacific Cartel, the Federation and the Blood Alliance, is a large, international organized crime syndicate that specializes in il ...

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Los Ántrax Los Ántrax is a large enforcer unit and hit squad for the Sinaloa Cartel, a major crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The group was led by the drug lords Jesús Peña (alias "El 20"), José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa (alias "E ...

Gente Nueva Gente Nueva (English: ''New People''), also known as Los Chapos, in reference to their drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, is a large group of well-trained and experienced gunmen that function as one of the elite armed wings of the Sinaloa Cartel, ...

Artistas Asesinos Artistas Asesinos (also known as Doble A or AA) is a Mexican street gang that works as an enforcement wing of the Sinaloa Cartel The Sinaloa Cartel ( es, link=no, Cártel de Sinaloa), also known as the CDS, the Guzmán-Loera Organization, th ...

(defunct) **

Colima Cartel The Colima Cartel ( es, Cártel de Colima) was a Mexican drug trafficking and methamphetamine producing cartel operating in Guadalajara, Jalisco. It was founded and led by José de Jesús Amezcua Contreras and supported by his brothers Adán an ...

(defunct) **

Milenio Cartel The Milenio Cartel, or Cártel de los Valencia (Valencia family Cartel), was a Mexican criminal organization based in Michoacán. It relocated to Jalisco in the early 2000s. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel was born from the splintering of t ...

(defunct) *

Tijuana Cartel The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: ''Cártel de Tijuana'') or Arellano-Félix-Organization (Spanish: ''Organización Arellano Félix'', AFO) is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Founded by the Arellano-Félix family, the ...

Oaxaca Cartel The Oaxaca cartel (Spanish: ''Cártel de Oaxaca'' or ''Díaz-Parada cartel'' or ''Cártel del Istmo'' ) was one of the smaller drug cartels operating in Mexico and at the service of the Tijuana Cartel; it focused on marijuana and cocaine traffic ...

Los Zetas Los Zetas (, Spanish for "The Zs") is a Mexican criminal syndicate, regarded as one of the most dangerous of Mexico's drug cartels. They are known for engaging in brutally violent "shock and awe" tactics such as beheadings, torture, and indiscri ...

** Guatemala branch (defunct) * Beltrán-Leyva Cartel (defunct) **

Guerreros Unidos Guerreros Unidos (, ) is a Mexican criminal syndicate in the states of Southern Mexico. In 2014, the cartel kidnapped 43 students from Ayotzinapa College in Iguala, Guerrero. A witness confirmed that soldiers in the Mexican Army were involved ...

Los Mazatlecos Los Mazatlecos (The Mazatlan people) is an enforcer gang of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. It is reportedly led by Fausto Isidro Meza Flores. Activities Los Mazatlecos gang were formed in the coastal city of Mazatlán, Sinaloa, from where they t ...

La Barredora La Barredora ("The Sweeper Truck") is a criminal gang based in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, Guerrero and its surrounding territories. The criminal group came into existence during the rapid decentralization of Mexico's drug trafficking or ...

(defunct) **

Independent Cartel of Acapulco The Independent Cartel of Guerrero (Spanish: Cártel Independiente de Acapulco or CIDA) was a criminal gang based in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, Guerrero and its surrounding territories. The criminal group came into existence during the ...

(defunct) **

Los Negros Los Negros ('The Black Ones') was a criminal organization that was once the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel and after a switch of alliances, became the armed wing of the Sinaloa splinter gang, the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel. In 2010 it went indepe ...

(defunct) **

Los Pelones Los Pelones ("The Bald Ones") is an enforcer gang originally part of the Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel, headed by the drug lord Joaquín ''El Chapo'' Guzmán, Mexico's most-wanted man. Etymology Los Pelones l ...

(defunct) **

South Pacific Cartel The South Pacific Cartel (Spanish: ''Cártel del Pacífico Sur''), is a Mexican organized crime group composed of the remnants of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel. It is based in the Mexican state of Morelos. The gang has been significantly less act ...

(defunct) *

La Familia Michoacana La Familia Michoacana, (English: ''The Michoacán Family'') La Familia (English: ''The Family''), or LFM is a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Michoacán. They are known to produce large amounts o ...

(defunct) ** La Resistencia (defunct) *

Guadalajara Cartel The Guadalajara Cartel ( es, Cártel de Guadalajara) also known as The Federation ( es, La Federación, link=no) was a Mexican drug cartel which was formed in the late 1970s by Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero, and Ernesto Fons ...

(defunct) **

Sonora Cartel The Sonora Cartel, also known as Caro Quintero Organization, was a Mexico based criminal cartel. Upon the cartel's disintegration, its leaders were incorporated into the Tijuana Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel. By 2007, Sonora Cartel, Colima Cartel a ...

(defunct) *

Knights Templar Cartel The Knights Templar Cartel (Spanish: ''Los Caballeros Templarios'') was a Mexican criminal organization originally composed of the remnants of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel based in the Mexican State of Michoacán. The Knights Templar Car ...

(defunct) * Los Narcosatánicos (defunct)

Asia

Golden Triangle Golden Triangle may refer to: Places Asia * Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia), named for its opium production * Golden Triangle (Yangtze), China, named for its rapid economic development * Golden Triangle (India), comprising the popular tourist ...

Booth, Martin (2000) ''The dragon syndicates: the global phenomenon of the Triads'' Basic Books, ** Burmese drug cartels ''(see also

Myanmar Nationalities Democratic Alliance Army , logo = Flag of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army.svg , caption = Flag of the MNDAA , active= – present , leader = Peng Daxun , ideology = Kokang nationalism Separatism , partof = Myanmar National Truth and Justice Party ...

)'' *** Khun Sa cartelChepesiuk, Ron (1999) ''The war on drugs: an international encyclopedia'', ABC-CLIO, ''(see also

Mong Tai Army The Mong Tai Army ( my, မိုင်းတိုင်းတပ်မတော်; sometimes transcribed Muang Tai Army; abbreviated MTA), was an insurgent group consisting of soldiers from the Shan minority in Myanmar, founded in 1985 by ...

)'' *** Red Wa Cartel ''(see also

United Wa State Army The United Wa State Army (; my, ဝပြည် သွေးစည်းညီညွတ်ရေး တပ်မတော်, ), abbreviated as the UWSA or the UWS Army, is the military wing of the United Wa State Party (UWSP), the ''de facto'' ...

and

National Democratic Alliance Army The National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) is an insurgent group in eastern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). It is the armed wing of the Peace and Solidarity Committee (PSC). History The Mong La area had been under the control of several war ...

)'' *** Hawngleuk Militia *** Han cartel ** Laotian drug cartels ''(see also

Ouane Rattikone Major-General Ouane Rattikone (Ouan Rathikoun), a Laotian senior military officer, was the commander-in-chief of the Royal Lao Armed Forces ( French: ''Forces Armées du Royaume'' – FAR), the official military of the Royal Lao Government and ...

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Golden Crescent The Golden Crescent is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production (with the other being the Golden Triangle). Located at the crossroads of Central, South, and Western Asia, this space covers the mountainous ...

** Afridi Network ** Afghan drug cartelsGlenny, Misha (2009) ''McMafia'', Vintage Books, ''(see also

Taliban The Taliban (; ps, طالبان, ṭālibān, lit=students or 'seekers'), which also refers to itself by its state (polity), state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist, m ...

)'' *** Noorzai Organization *** Khan organization *** Karzai organization (alleged) *** Bagcho organization ***

Haqqani Network The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanis ...

North American organized crime

Canada

* Rivard organization *

Red Scorpions The Red Scorpions is a gang based in British Columbia, Canada. It was formed in 2000 by Quang Vinh Thang Le (known as Michael Le), Tejinder Malli, Konaam Shirzad, Matthew Johnston, and one other un-named young offenders. Michael Le testified a ...

Bacon Brothers The Bacon Brothers is an American music duo consisting of brothers Michael Bacon and Kevin Bacon. Although they have played music together since they were boys, the brothers have only been a working band since 1994. Having heard the brother's ...

Irish Mob The Irish Mob (also known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a collective of organized crime syndicates composed of ethnic Irish members which operate primarily in Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia, and have been in ...

West End Gang The West End Gang (french: Gang de l'ouest) is a Canadian organized crime group in Montreal, Quebec. An Irish mob group originating from the Irish-Canadian ethnic enclave of Pointe-Saint-Charles in the 1950s, the majority of the gang's earnings w ...

* Dubois Brothers *

Indo-Canadian organized crime Punjabi-Canadian organized crime is made up of groups that are based in Canada and is made up predominantly of young adults and teenagers of Punjabi ethnic, cultural and linguistic background, while ethnically they typically belong to the Jat Si ...

* Italian-Canadian Mafia families ** ''Cosa Nostra'' ***

Rizzuto crime family The Rizzuto crime family () is an organized crime family based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, whose criminal activity covers most of southern Quebec and Ontario. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers the family a facti ...

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Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan The Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan () was a Mafia clan of the Cosa Nostra and held a key position in the illicit drug trade and money laundering for Cosa Nostra in the 1980s and 1990s. The Italian press baptized the clan as "The Rothschilds of the ...

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Cotroni crime family The Cotroni crime family, originally CotroneAuger and Edwards ''The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime'' p.63. () was an Italian 'Ndrangheta type organized crime syndicate (or 'Ndrina) based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The United States Fed ...

** 'Ndrangheta ***

Luppino crime family The Luppino crime family, () also known as the Luppino-Violi crime family, is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based and founded in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the 1950s by Giacomo Luppino. The Luppino family is one of three centralized Mafi ...

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Musitano crime family The Musitano crime family () is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco and Bareggio in Northern Italy. The Musitano family was founded by Angelo Musitano in Ca ...

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Papalia crime family The Papalia crime family () also known as Papalia 'ndrina, is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco in Northern Italy. Another branch of the family is based in ...

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Siderno Group The Siderno Group is a criminal association in Canada, Australia and Italy related to the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organization in Calabria. The association is labelled the "Siderno Group" because its members primarily came from the town of Sidern ...

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Commisso 'ndrina The Commisso 'ndrina () is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organization in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Siderno, but also has a branch in the Greater Toronto Area in Canada as part of the Siderno Group. ...

United States

National Crime Syndicate The National Crime Syndicate was the name given by the press to the multi-ethnic, loosely connected, American confederation of several criminal organizations. It mostly consisted of and was led by the closely interconnected Italian-American Mafia ...

Seven Group Murder, Inc. (Murder, Incorporated) was an organized crime group, active from 1929 to 1941, that acted as the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicatea closely connected criminal organization that included the Italian-American Mafia, the ...

Murder, Inc. Murder, Inc. (Murder, Incorporated) was an organized crime group, active from 1929 to 1941, that acted as the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicatea closely connected criminal organization that included the Italian-American Mafia, the ...

Rockaway, Robert A (2000) ''But he was good to his mother: the lives and crimes of Jewish gangsters'', Gefen Publishing House Ltd, *

Prohibition-era In the United States from 1920 to 1933, a nationwide constitutional law prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, an ...

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Galveston Galveston ( ) is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of , with a population of 47,743 in 2010, is the county seat of surrounding Galvesto ...

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Downtown Gang The Downtown Gang was one of the two gangs that dominated the organized crime world in Galveston, Texas, United States, mainly during Prohibition in the United States, prohibition. The gang was founded by Johnny Jack Nounes around 1920. The gang ...

*** Beach Gang *** Sam Maceo's Organisation **

Broadway Mob The Broadway Mob was a New York bootlegging gang during Prohibition. Although headed by Joe Adonis, the gangs day-to-day operations were handled by Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Frank Costello as well as financially backed by Arnold Rothstein. Durin ...

The Lanzetta Brothers The Lanzetta Brothers, also known as the Lanzetti Brothers due to an incorrect spelling used by newspapers, was a group of six brothers who ran bootlegging operations in Philadelphia and possibly Atlantic City. Early lives There were six bro ...

Shelton Brothers Gang The Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition-era bootlegging gang based in southern Illinois. They were the main rivals of the famous bootlegger Charles Birger and his gang. In 1950, the '' Saturday Evening Post'' described the Sheltons ...

Angle, Paul M (2991) ''Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness'', University of Illinois Press, **

Sheldon Gang The Sheldon Gang was a Chicago criminal gang during the early years of Prohibition known for being the main rivals of the Saltis-McErlane Gang and the Southside O'Donnell Brothers. The gang's primary activities included bootlegging and hijacking o ...

** Circus Cafe Gang **

Wandering Family The Famiglia Vagabonda ("Wandering Family") was an American Prohibition-era criminal organization of Italian origin operating in Clarksburg and Fairmont, West Virginia. The gang was composed of Black Handers, Camorristi and Mafiosi. John C. M ...

Polish Mob Polish-American organized crime has existed in the United States throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Although not as well known as Italian, Irish, Russian mafias, the Polish Mob has a presence in many urban Polish American communities. Prohib ...

Saltis-McErlane Gang Joseph Francis Saltis, (8 September 1894 – 2 August 1947), known as "Polack Joe", was a Polish-American Prohibition in the United States, Prohibition gangster who, with Frank McErlane, operated an illegal rum-running, bootlegging racket in the Ba ...

Sifakis, Carl. ''The Mafia Encyclopedia''. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. **

Kielbasa Posse Polish-American organized crime has existed in the United States throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Although not as well known as Italian, Irish, Russian mafias, the Polish Mob has a presence in many urban Polish American communities. Prohib ...

** The Greenpoint Crew ** Flats Mob **

The Flathead gang The Flathead Gang, also known as The Flatheads, was a group of bank robbers. The gang was operating in the Detroit, Michigan area. When the police became a major problem for the gang they decided to move their robberies and other crimes to the Stat ...

Kavieff, Paul (2008) ''Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang'' Arcadia Publishing, *

Dixie Mafia The Dixie Mafia or Dixie Mob is an American criminal organization composed mainly of white Southerners and based in Biloxi, Mississippi, operating primarily throughout the Southern United States since at least the late 1960s. The group's activitie ...

Cornbread Mafia The "Cornbread mafia" was the name for a group of Kentucky men who created the largest domestic marijuana production operation in United States history. It was based in Marion, Nelson and Washington counties in central Kentucky. The term "Cornbrea ...

State Line Mob The State Line Mob was an association of criminal elements that operated in the 1950s and 1960s at the Mississippi–Tennessee state line in Alcorn County, Mississippi, and McNairy County, Tennessee, along U.S. Route 45. The State Line Mob was in ...

* Wall gang *

Greek-American Greek Americans ( el, Ελληνοαμερικανοί ''Ellinoamerikanoí'' ''Ellinoamerikánoi'' ) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry. The lowest estimate is that 1.2 million Americans are of Greek descent while the highest es ...

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Philadelphia Greek Mob Philadelphia's Greek Mob, also known as the Philadelphia Greek Mafia or simply the Greek Mafia, are a low-profile criminal organization of ethnic Greek Americans in Philadelphia with alleged connections to the Italian Philadelphia crime family an ...

Velentzas Family The Velentzas Organization, also known as the "Greek crew" is a Greek-American criminal organization operating in the New York City area.Jerry Capeci. ''Jerry Capeci's Gang Land.'' (pg.170-172) ''The Man Gotti Never Got''. October 12, 1994/ref> D ...

Hispanic-American Hispanic and Latino Americans ( es, Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; pt, Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of Spanish and/or Latin American ancestry. More broadly, these demographics include all Americans who identify as ...

** Marielitos *** The Corporation ** Puerto Rican mafia *** Agosto organization ***

La ONU The Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos (ONU, or La ONU) (in English: United Drug Traffickers), is a Puerto Rican criminal organization based in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. It is an organization dedicated to drug dealing and unifying various well- ...

*** Solano organization *** Negri organization *** Márquez gambling ring ** Polanco-Rodriguez organization * Assyrian/Chaldean mafia *

Hawaii Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only stat ...

** The Company ** Leota mob *

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...

''(See also

Rampart scandal The Rampart scandal involved widespread police corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers either a ...

)'' ** Nash gang **

Wonderland Gang The Wonderland Gang was a group of drug dealers involved in the Los Angeles cocaine trade during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their home base was located on Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles, California. On July 1, ...

* Elkins mob * Binion mob

American Mafia

Italian immigrants to the United States in the early 19th century brought with them the underground government many Americans refer to as "Cosa Nostra" (Our Thing) along with its traditions and formal induction rituals along with the concepts and precepts of Omerta, which espouses honorable and manly behavior at all times and under all conditions,taking care your own problems and assisting your community, as well as non-cooperation with corrupt law enforcement and government officials. Many Italian-Americans around this same time also formed various small-time gangs which gradually evolved into sophisticated crime syndicates, but the nationwide organization known as "Cosa Nostra" has traditionally dominated organized crime in America for several decades. Although government crackdowns and a less-tightly knit Italian-American community have largely reduced its power, the

American Mafia The American Mafia, commonly referred to in North America as the Italian American Mafia, the Mafia, or the Mob, is a highly organized Italian American criminal society and organized crime group. The organization is often referred to by its membe ...

remains an active force in the underworld

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= * The CommissionCapeci, Jerry (2002) ''The complete idiot's guide to the Mafia'', Alpha Books, *The

Five Families The Five Families refers to five major New York City organized crime families of the Italian American Mafia formed in 1931 by Salvatore Maranzano following his victory in the Castellammarese War. Maranzano reorganized the Italian American gangs ...

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

** Bonanno *** Indelicato crew *** The Motion Lounge Crew **

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

*** Scarpa crew **

Genovese Genovese is an Italian surname meaning, properly, someone from Genoa. Its Italian plural form '' Genovesi'' has also developed into a surname. People * Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American oboist * Alfredo Genovese (born 1964), Argentine ar ...

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116th Street Crew The 116th Street Crew,

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Greenwich Village Crew The Greenwich Village Crew is a crew within the Genovese crime family, active in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan. It was originally controlled by Crime boss, Don Vito Genovese from the early 1920s until his arrest in the late 1950s.G. T. H ...

*** New Jersey Crew ** Gambino ***

Ozone Park Boys The Ozone Park Boys, also known as "Liberty Posse" and "The Young Guns", are a Gambino crime family Mafia crew based in Ozone Park, Queens. They are infamous for their massive number of crimes, including an illegal $30 million-a-year sports gambl ...

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DeMeo crew Roy Albert DeMeo (; September 7, 1940 – January 10, 1983) was an Italian-American mobster in the Gambino crime family of New York City. He headed a group referred to as the "DeMeo crew", which became notorious for the large number of murders ...

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Baltimore Crew The Baltimore Crew was an Italian American organized crime group that ultimately became a faction of the Gambino crime family operating in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland from about 1900 until the 1990s. It was originally an independent org ...

*** South Florida faction *** New Jersey faction *** The Bergin Crew *** Cherry Hill Gambinos ** Lucchese ***

The Jersey Crew The Lucchese crime family's New Jersey faction, also known as the Jersey Crew,Carlpg. 232-236/ref> is a powerful crew within the Lucchese crime family. The members operate throughout the Northern New Jersey area. During the 1970s into the late 198 ...

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The Vario Crew The Vario Crew, also known as the Canarsie Crew, is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Lucchese crime family that controls organized crime activities within the New York metropolitan area but has been predominantly based from Brookl ...

*** 107th Street gang *

Magaddino crime family The Buffalo crime family, also known as the Magaddino crime family, Buffalo Mafia, The Arm, the New York State crime family, the Upstate New York Mafia, and the Todaro crime family, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Buffalo, N ...

DeCavalcante crime family The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia organized crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, Newark, West New York, and various other North Jersey ...

*The

Chicago Outfit The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or The Organization) is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate or crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, tha ...

''(see also

Unione Siciliane The Italian-American National Union (formerly known as Unione Siciliana) was a Sicilian-American organization, which controlled much of the Italian vote within the United States during the early twentieth century. It was based in Chicago, Illinois. ...

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Philadelphia crime family The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Philadelphia Mafia, the Philly Mob or Philly Mafia, the Philadelphia-South Jersey Mafia, or Bruno-Scarfo family is an Italian-American Mafia family based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formed and ...

Pittsburgh crime family The Pittsburgh crime family,CapeciChapter 5 "Mafia Families Poison the Northeast"/ref> also known as the LaRocca crime family''Organized Crime in Pennsylvania: Traditional and Non-Traditional''. Pennsylvania Crime Concession. April 15, 1988 or P ...

Patriarca crime family The Patriarca crime family (, ), also known as the New England Mafia, the Boston Mafia, the Providence Mafia, or The Office is an Italian-American American Mafia, Mafia crime family, family in New England. It has two distinct factions, one based ...

** Angiulo Brothers crew *

Cleveland crime family The Cleveland crime family or Cleveland Mafia is the collective name given to a succession of Italian-American organized crime gangs based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. A part of the Italian-American Mafia (or ''Cosa Nostra'') phenom ...

Los Angeles crime family The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the L.A. Mafia or the Southern California crime family, is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Los Angeles as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia. Since its inception in the earl ...

Kansas City crime family The Kansas City crime family, also known as the Civella crime family or Kansas City Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia family based in Kansas City, Missouri. History Early history The Italian-American organized crime family began when two Si ...

Trafficante crime family The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida, United States. The most notable boss was Santo Trafficante, Jr. who ruled Tampa and the crime family with an iron fist. ...

Detroit Partnership The Detroit Partnership (also known as the Detroit crime family, Detroit Combination, Detroit Mafia, Zerilli crime family, and the Tocco–Zerilli crime family) () is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Detroit, Michigan, and ...

Milwaukee crime family The Milwaukee Crime Family, Balistrieri Crime Family, or Milwaukee Mafia is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.Peter J. Devico ''The Mafia Made Easy: The Anatomy and Culture of La Cosa Nostra.'(pg.154-156)/ref> T ...

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Morello crime family The Morello crime family () was one of the earliest crime families to be established in the United States and New York City. The Morellos were based in Manhattan's Italian Harlem and eventually gained dominance in the Italian underworld by defea ...

Genna crime family The Genna crime family (), was a crime family that operated in Prohibition-era Chicago. From 1921 to 1925, the family was headed by the six Genna brothers, known as the ''Terrible Gennas''.Capeci, Jerry. ''The complete idiot's guide to the Mafia' ...

Porrello crime family The Cleveland crime family or Cleveland Mafia is the collective name given to a succession of Italian-American organized crime gangs based in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. A part of the Italian-American Mafia (or ''Cosa Nostra'') phenom ...

* St. Louis crime family *

Rochester Crime Family The Rochester crime family or Rochester Mafia was a criminal organization based in Rochester, New York that was part of the American ''Cosa Nostra''. History The Rochester family's first well known official boss was Constenze "Stanley" Valent ...

Bufalino crime family The Bufalino crime family,''Organized Crime in Pennsylvania: Traditional and Non-Traditional''. Pennsylvania Crime Concession. April 15, 1988 also known as the Pittston crime family,Devico, Peter J. ''The Mafia Made Easy: The Anatomy and Culture o ...

Dallas crime family The Dallas crime family or Dallas Mafia was an Italian-American Italian-American Mafia, Mafia American Mafia crime families, crime family based in Dallas, Texas. History Carlo Piranio Carlo Piranio, a native of Sicily, immigrated to the U.S. ...

Denver crime family The Colorado crime family, also known as the Smaldone crime family, Denver crime family, Denver Mafia or the Mountain Mafia was an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Pueblo and Denver, Colorado. Pete and Sam Carlino’s bootlegg ...

San Francisco crime family The San Francisco crime family, also known as the Lanza crime family or San Francisco Mafia, was an American Mafia crime syndicate in San Francisco. The syndicate was organized in the early 1930s by Francesco "Frank" Lanza. The San Francisco fami ...

New Orleans crime family The New Orleans crime family or New Orlean Mafia was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in the city of New Orleans. The family had a history of criminal activity dating back to the late nineteenth century. The family reached its height ...

San Jose crime family The San Jose crime family, also known as the Cerrito crime family or San Jose Mafia, was one of the two families that controlled organized crime in San Jose, California, within the nationwide criminal organization known as the Mafia (or La Cosa ...

Seattle crime family The Seattle crime family, also known as the Colacurcio crime family
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* Omaha crime family * Cardinelli gang * New York Camorra *

East Harlem Purple Gang The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang or organized crime group consisting of Italian-American hit-men and heroin dealers who were semi-independent from the Italian-American Mafia and, according to federal prosecutors, dominated heroin distribu ...

* Las Vegas crew

Jewish mafia Jewish-American organized crime initially emerged within the American Jewish community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has been referred to variously in media and popular culture as the Jewish Mob, Jewish Mafia, Kosher Mob, K ...

*New York City **

The Bugs and Meyer Mob The Bugs (Bugsy) and Meyer Mob was a Jewish-American street gang in Manhattan, New York City's Lower East Side. It was formed and headed by mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky during their teenage years shortly after the start of Prohibition. ...

** Kaplan gang **

New York divorce coercion gang The New York divorce coercion gang was a Haredi Jewish group that kidnapped, and in some cases tortured, Jewish men in the New York metropolitan area to force them to grant their wives ''gittin'' (religious divorces). The Federal Bureau of Invest ...

Shaer, Matthew (September 2, 2014
"Epstein Orthodox Hit Squad"
, ''GQ'' ** Rosenzweig gang ** Rothstein organization ** Schultz gang **

Shapiro Brothers Meyer (1908–1931), Irving (1904–1931) and William Shapiro (1911–1934), collectively known as the Shapiro Brothers were the leaders of a group of Jewish-American mobsters from New York City and based in Williamsburg. Well established in ...

Yiddish Black Hand Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ver ...

*Boston ** 69th Street Gang ** Sagansky organization ** Solomon organization *Los Angeles **

Cohen crime family Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1913 – July 29, 1976) was an American gangster, boxer and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles during the mid-20th century. Early life Mickey Cohen was born on September 4, 1913, in New York City to Je ...

(mix between Jewish and Italian members) *

The Purple Gang The Purple Gang, also known as the Sugar House Gang, was a criminal mob of bootleggers and hijackers comprised predominantly of Jewish gangsters. They operated in Detroit, Michigan, during the 1920s of the Prohibition era and came to be Detr ...

* Zwillman gang *

Kid Cann Isadore Blumenfeld (September 8, 1900 – June 21, 1981), commonly known as Kid Cann, was a Romanian Jewish-American organized crime enforcer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for over four decades. He remains the most notorious mobster in the ...

's gang * Birger mob *

Cleveland Syndicate Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the United States, U.S. U.S. state, state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along ...

African-American organized crime In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African-American organized crime emerged following the first and second large-scale migration of African-Americans from the South to major cities of the Northeast, Midwest, and later the West Coast. In ...

*New York City ** The Council ** Harlem numbers racket **

Bumpy Johnson Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson (October 31, 1905 – July 7, 1968) was an American crime boss in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Early life Ellsworth Raymond "Bumpy" Johnson was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on October 31, 1905 ...

gang ** Supreme TeamAmerican Gangster, BET
** The Bebos ** The Country Boys ** Matthews Organization *

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Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...

Black Mafia Family The Black Mafia Family (BMF) was a drug trafficking and money laundering organization in the United States. The Black Mafia Family was founded in 1985, in Southwest Detroit by brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" F ...

** Young Boys, Inc. **

Chambers Brothers The Chambers Brothers are an American psychedelic soul band, best known for their eleven-minute 1967 psychedelic soul hit "Time Has Come Today". The group was part of the wave of new music that integrated American blues and gospel traditions wit ...

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

Black Mafia The Black Mafia, also known as the Philadelphia Black Mafia (PBM), Black Muslim Mafia and Muslim Mob, was a Philadelphia-based African-American organized crime syndicate. The organization began as a small criminal collective, known for robbery, ...

Chepesiuk, Ron (2007) ''Gangsters of Harlem: the gritty underworld of New York City's most famous neighborhood'', Barricade Books, **

Junior Black Mafia The Black Mafia, also known as the Philadelphia Black Mafia (PBM), Black Muslim Mafia and Muslim Mob, was a Philadelphia-based African-American organized crime syndicate. The organization began as a small criminal collective, known for holding ...

Oakland, California Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...

** 69 Mob Funktown and Acorn mobb ** Williams organization (drug trafficking) *

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Rayful Edmond Rayful Edmond III (born November 26, 1964) is an American former drug trafficker in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s. Edmond is largely responsible for having introduced crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C. area during the crack epidemic, result ...

organization **

Theodore Roe Theodore L. "Teddy" Roe (August 26, 1898 – August 4, 1952) was an African-American organized crime figure who led an illegal gambling empire in South Side, Chicago during the 1940s and early 1950s. Roe earned the nickname "Robin Hood" because of ...

's gambling ring ** Stokes organization *

Atlantic City Atlantic City, often known by its initials A.C., is a coastal resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The city is known for its casinos, Boardwalk (entertainment district), boardwalk, and beaches. In 2020 United States censu ...

** Aso Posse *

Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...

** Miami Boys * Rosemond Organization

Irish Mob The Irish Mob (also known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a collective of organized crime syndicates composed of ethnic Irish members which operate primarily in Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia, and have been in ...

* Prohibition-era Chicago gangs **

North Side Gang The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was an Irish-Polish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s. It was the principal rival of the South Side Gang, also ...

English, T.J. ''Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster''. New York: HarperCollins, 2005, ** James Patrick O'Leary organization **

John Patrick Looney John Patrick Looney (1865–1942) was an Irish-American political fixer and Irish mob boss based in Rock Island, Illinois during the early 20th century. At the height of his power, Looney controlled most of the illegal gambling, prostituti ...

gang **

Valley Gang The Valley Gang was an Irish-American street gang in Chicago, Illinois during the early 20th century, which ultimately made the transition to organized crime and became a de facto extension of the Chicago Outfit under Al Capone. Formed in the ...

Ragen's Colts Ragen's Colts was a chiefly Irish street gang which dominated the Chicago underworld during the early twentieth century. By the late 1920s and early 1930s, the gang became part of the Chicago Outfit under Al Capone. Originally established as a ...

** Touhy gang ** Enright gang *

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

Mullen Gang The Mullen Gang was an Irish-American gang operating in Boston. Gang members Paulie McGonagle (died November 1974) was a Boston mobster and onetime leader of the Mullen Gang, a South Boston street gang involved in burglary, auto theft, and a ...

Winter Hill Gang The Winter Hill Gang is a loose confederation of organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. The gang members and leadership are predominantly Irish-American and Italian-American descent. The organization itself derives its n ...

Gustin Gang The Gustin Gang was one of the earliest Irish-American gangs to emerge during the Prohibition era and dominate Boston's underworld during the 1920s. The name "Gustin Gang" came from a street in South Boston ("Southie"), which was off of Old Colon ...

Charlestown Mob The Charlestown Mob was an Irish mob group in Charlestown, Boston, Charlestown, which figured prominently in the history of Boston, Massachusetts, Boston for much of the 20th century. The gang was headed by the McLaughlin brothers (Bernard " ...

Killeen gang The Killeen Gang was an Irish-American Boston-based crime organization started by Donnie Killeen. At one time, the gang was led by Whitey Bulger. Along with Bulger, Billy O'Sullivan was a notable associate. The Killeen Gang eventually combined ...

Danny Hogan "Dapper" Danny Hogan (c. 1880 - December 4, 1928) was an Irish-American organized crime figure, political fixer, and the boss of Saint Paul, Minnesota's Irish Mob both before and during Prohibition. Following Hogan's 1928 murder by car bomb, his ...

's gang *

Danny Walsh Daniel L. "Danny" Walsh (c. 1893 – February 2, 1933?) was an organized crime figure in Providence, Rhode Island involved in bootlegging during Prohibition. He was the top underworld figure in southern New England, and last major Irish-Am ...

gang * Tom Dennison empire *

Nucky Johnson's Organization Nucky Johnson's Organization was a corrupt political machine based in Atlantic City, New Jersey that held power during the Prohibition era. Its boss, Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, coordinated the Organizations's bootlegging, gambling, racketeering, a ...

* Danny Greene's Celtic Club *

K&A Gang The K&A Gang, currently known as the Northeast Philly Irish Mob, is a predominantly Irish American criminal network based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The K&A Gang was started following World War II and controlled the city's Irish-American cr ...

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

** Dwyer gang **

White Hand Gang The White Hand Gang was a collection of various Irish American gangs on the New York City, Brooklyn, and Red Hook waterfronts from the early 1900s to 1925 who organized against the growing influence of Italian gangsters. Their name was chosen in re ...

** Higgins gang **

The Westies The Westies were a New York City-based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing. They were partnered with the Italian-American Mafia and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen nei ...

St Louis St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...

Hogan Gang The Hogan Gang was a St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis-based criminal organization that sold illegal liquor during Prohibition in addition to committing labor slugging, voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder. Although predominantly Irish-Amer ...

Egan's Rats Egan's Rats was an American organized crime gang that exercised considerable power in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1890 to 1924. Its 35 years of criminal activity included bootlegging, labor slugging, voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder ...

European organized crime

* The Belgian Milieu ** 'Hormone mafia' ** Milieu Liègeois *

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

** Mrázek organization ** Krejčíř organization * Dutch 'Penose' ** Bruinsma drug gang ** Holleeder gang ** Mieremet gang ** Riphagen gang (WWII-era) ** Hopi Boys * French Milieu ''(See also

Service d'Action Civique The SAC (french: Service d'Action Civique; or ''Civic Action Service''), officially created in January 1960, was a Gaullist militia founded by Jacques Foccart, Charles de Gaulle's chief adviser for African matters, and , a former Resistant and o ...

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Corsican mafia The Corsican mafia is a set of criminal groups originating from Corsica, which are partially independent of but also closely tied to and participating heavily in both the French underworld and Italian Mafia. The Corsican mafia is an influential ...

Gayraud, Jean-François (2009) ''Showbiz, people et corruption'', Odile Jacob, ''(see also

National Liberation Front of Corsica The National Liberation Front of Corsica ( co, Fronte di liberazione naziunale di a Corsica or ; french: Front de libération nationale corse, abbreviated FLNC) was a militant group that advocates an independent state on the island of Corsica, se ...

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Unione Corse The Unione Corse is a Corsican mafia criminal organization operating primarily out of Corsica and Marseille, France. Members of this organization, along with various other crime families, maintained the French Connection – a heroin trade monopol ...

**** Carbone crime family **** Francisci crime family **** Mondoloni crime family *** Brise de Mer gang ** Les Caïds Des Cités *** Faïd gang *** The Barbarians ** Wigs gang ** North African Brigade ''(see also

Carlingue The Carlingue (or French Gestapo) were French auxiliaries who worked for the Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst and Geheime Feldpolizei during the German occupation of France in the Second World War. The group, which was based at 93 rue Lauriston in th ...

)'' ** Tractions Avant gang ** Bande des Trois Canards *Greece **

Greek mafia The Greek mafia (Greek: Ελληνική μαφία ''Ellinikí mafía'') is the colloquial term used to refer to various organized crime elements originating from Greece. Indigenous organized criminal groups are well-entrenched in the largest G ...

*Ireland ''(See also

Irish Republican Army The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various paramilitary organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to irredentism through Irish republicanism, the belief tha ...

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Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...

*** Cahill gangNewton, Michael (2007) ''Gangsters Encyclopedia'', Anova Books, *** Gilligan gang *** Foley gang *** Hyland gang *** Dunne gang ***

Limerick Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...

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McCarthy-Dundon The McCarthy-Dundon's is a criminal gang based in Limerick City, Ireland. Their main base is Ballinacurra Weston on Limerick's southside but they also have a strong presence in Southill and in the northside suburb of Moyross. The gang, involved in ...

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Keane-Collopy The Keane-Collopy gang is a criminal organisation based in Limerick City, Ireland. Its members are major suppliers of drugs in the Mid-West region and have been heavily involved in the Limerick feud since 2000, when an attempt was made on the lif ...

Rathkeale Rovers The Rathkeale Rovers are a group of English Travellers based in Ireland but operating internationally. They are all members of Ireland's Travelling Community, and use traditional Traveller work such as laying tarmac or home renovation as cover ...

** Kinahan gang ** Hutch gang *

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

''(See also

Group 13 The Group 13 network ( pl, Trzynastka, Yiddish: ''דאָס דרײַצענטל'') was a Jewish Nazi collaborationist organization in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The rise and fall of the Group ...

)'' ** Pruszków mafia *

Slovak mafia The Slovak mafia constitutes various organized crime groups in Slovakia, controlled primarily by Slovak interests. The Slovak mafia does not have significant international presence and, even in Slovakia, their activities are limited by boundaries ...

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Garduña The GarduñaIn standard Spanish, garduña' is the name of the beech marten is a mythical organized, secret criminal society said to have been founded in Spain in the late Middle Ages. It was said to have been a prison gang that grew into a more ...

Galician mafia Galician clans are the drug smuggling groups in the Spanish region of Galicia. Due to the activities of these clans, Galicia is often cited as being the main European entry point for Colombian cocaine. Activities Traditionally the region of Gal ...

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

clans **

Casamonica clan The Casamonica clan is an Italian criminal organization present in Rome and operating in the area of the Castelli Romani and the Lazio coast. Origins The Casamonica clan originates from the Casamonica and Di Silvio families, families of seden ...

** El Clan De La Paca ** Raffael clan ** Sztojka clan ** Rashkov clan ** French gypsy gangs ***

Hornec gang The Hornec brothers gang, also called "the H" or "the Montreuil gang", is a Gitanes criminal group from the region of Paris. It is the most influential gang in the French capital. They control many criminal activities (racket, drug dealing, i ...

Organized crime in Sweden Although organized crime has always existed in Sweden, it has risen in the 2000s and the number of organized criminal groups operating in the country is increasing. In 2018 the country had the highest gun deaths in total in Europe; deaths involvi ...

** Original Gangsters **

Fucked For Life Fucked For Life (FFL) is a criminal network in Sweden, probably founded by Daniel Maiorana (born ). At the core of the network are 12 men, some of whom have "FFL" tattooed on their arms or neck. History The gang was initially named "Tumba Lords ...

** Uppsala mafia ** Chosen Ones ** Werewolf Legion **

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** Vårvädersligan

Italian organized crime Organized crime in Italy and its criminal organizations have been prevalent in Italy, especially Southern Italy, for centuries and have affected the social and economic life of many Italian regions since at least the 19th century. There are six ...

Organized crime in Italy Organized crime in Italy and its criminal organizations have been prevalent in Italy, especially Southern Italy, for centuries and have affected the social and economic life of many Italian regions since at least the 19th century. There are six ...

, especially the

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, has existed for hundreds of years and has given rise to a number of notorious organizations with their own traditions and subculture which have managed to infiltrate almost every part of Italian society. The Italian mafia is often thought of as being the archetype for organized crime worldwide. *

Sicilian Mafia The Sicilian Mafia, also simply known as the Mafia and frequently referred to as Cosa nostra (, ; "our thing") by its members, is an Italian Mafia-terrorist-type organized crime syndicate and criminal society originating in the region of Sicily a ...

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List of Sicilian Mafia clans Clans in the Sicilian Mafia are united under a ''Mandamento'', led by a ''Capo madamento'', that represents the clans' bosses to the ''Cupola''. In Sicily, there are 94 Mafia families subject to 29 mandamenti.Sicilian Mafia Commission The Sicilian Mafia Commission (Italian: ''Commissione provinciale''), known as Commissione or Cupola, is a body of leading Sicilian Mafia members to decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Sicili ...

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Mandamenti Within Cosa Nostra a mandamento is traditionally a district of three geographically contiguous Mafia cosche (families controlling a single land feud, or a city ward) in Sicily. A capomandamento represents the head of a territory, the mandamento, ...

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Inzerillo Mafia clan The Inzerillo Mafia clan () is a Sicilian Mafia clan, formerly among the most powerful in Sicily, for at least half a century they were considered the "aristocracy of Palermo's mafia". The Inzerillo family was associated with the former Americ ...

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Corleonesi The Corleonesi Mafia clan was a faction within the Corleone family of the Sicilian Mafia, formed in the 1970s. Notable leaders included Luciano Leggio, Salvatore Riina, Bernardo Provenzano, and Leoluca Bagarella. Corleonesi affiliates were n ...

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Greco Mafia clan The Greco Mafia family () is historically one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily and Calabria, from the late 19th century. The extended family ruled both in Ciaculli and Croceverde Giardini, two south-eastern outskirts of Palermo in t ...

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Motisi Mafia clan The Motisi Mafia clan (, ) is a historical Sicilian Mafia clan from the Pagliarelli area in Palermo. The Motisi clan is one of the oldest Mafia clans in Palermo, and a Motisi was mentioned in 1937 as the Mafia boss of Pagliarelli by Melchiorre All ...

'Ndrangheta The 'Ndrangheta (, , ) is a prominent Italian Mafia-type organized crime syndicate and secret society, criminal society based in the peninsular and mountainous region of Calabria and dating back to the late 18th century. It is considered one of ...

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List of 'ndrine The 'ndrina (plural: 'ndrine) is the basic unit in the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organization from Calabria. Province of Catanzaro Badolato * Gallelli Borgia * Giacobbe Curinga * Fruci Guardavalle * Gallace La Provincia The ''Camera di Controllo'' (Board of Control), is a collegial body of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria. It is also known as ''La Provincia'' (the Province) or ''Camera di Compensazione'' (compensation board). It is composed o ...

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Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

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Mammoliti 'ndrina The Mammoliti 'ndrina () is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Castellace and Oppido Mamertina in the plain of Gioia Tauro in southern Calabria on the Tyrrhenia ...

Bellocco 'ndrina The Bellocco 'ndrina is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Rosarno, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, Tyrrhenian coast, and belongs to the ''Locale ('Ndrangheta), locale'' of that tow ...

Cataldo 'ndrina The Cataldo 'ndrina is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. This particular 'ndrina is based in Locri, a hotbed of 'Ndrangheta activity. The clan allied, with the Marafioti family, is involved in a ...

Cordì 'ndrina The Cordì 'ndrina is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Locri, a hotbed of 'Ndrangheta activity. Feud with Cataldo clan The historical boss of the clan, Domenico Cordì ...

De Stefano 'ndrina The De Stefano 'ndrina, or the De Stefano family or De Stefano-Tegano family, is one of the most powerful clans of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina hailed from the Archi neighbourhood in Reg ...

Pesce 'ndrina The Pesce 'ndrina is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Rosarno on the Tyrrhenian coast. Powerful 'Ndrangheta clan The Pesce clan is one of the most powerful clans in the ...

Barbaro 'ndrina The Barbaro 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina belongs to the '' locale'' of the town of Platì. According to the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA - the Italia ...

Piromalli 'ndrina The Piromalli 'ndrina is one of the most powerful clans of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Gioia Tauro on the Tyrrhenian coast. The Piromalli's are allied with their relatives of ...

Serraino 'ndrina The Serraino 'ndrina (also known as Serraino-Di Giovine 'ndrina) is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Cardeto, about 10 km southeast of the city of Reggio Calabria. Th ...

Camorra The Camorra (; ) is an Italian Mafia-typeMafia and Mafia-type orga ...

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List of Camorra clans This is a comprehensive list of Camorra clans and their place of origin. A clan is a basic unit in the Camorra, a criminal organization originating in Campania. Currently it is estimated there are about 111 Camorra clans, and about 7,000 full mem ...

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Secondigliano Alliance The Secondigliano Alliance ( Italian: Alleanza di Secondigliano) is a strategic alliance of Camorra clans in Naples, Italy and its hinterland which controls drug trafficking and the extortion racket in many areas of Naples since the 1990s. The Alli ...

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Licciardi clan The Licciardi clan () is a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan that operates in the remote areas of Naples, specifically in the Secondigliano district and its stronghold of Masseria Cardone. Its sphere of influence extends to Scampia, Chiaiano, Mia ...

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Contini clan The Contini clan is a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the city of Naples, and more specifically in the area of the Naples Central Station. The clan's traditional powerbase is the Arenaccia district. It also operates in the Poggiorea ...

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Lo Russo clan The Lo Russo clan was a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating on its territory within the city of Naples, concentrated specifically in the area of Miano, whose control extended throughout numerous neighborhoods in the north of the city for more than ...

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Mallardo clan The Mallardo clan is a Camorra clan operating from the town of Giugliano in Campania, north of the city of Naples. The Mallardo clan is also one of the clans that belongs to the Secondigliano Alliance, that is considered by the authorities as th ...

Nuova Camorra Organizzata The Nuova Camorra Organizzata (Italian: New Organized Camorra) was an Italian Camorra criminal organization founded in the late 1970s by a Neapolitan Camorrista, Raffaele Cutolo, in the region of Campania. It was also known by the initials NCO. ...

Di Lauro Clan The Di Lauro clan () is an Italian crime clan, part of the Camorra in Naples. The clan operates in the neighbourhoods of Secondigliano, Scampìa, Miano, Marianella, Piscinola, and in the adjacent municipalities of Casavatore, Melito, Arzano, Vill ...

Nuova Famiglia The Nuova Famiglia (Italian: "New Family") was an Italian Camorra confederation created in the 1970s and headed by the most powerful Camorra bosses of the time, Carmine Alfieri, the Nuvoletta brothers, Michele Zaza, Luigi Giuliano and Antonio Ba ...

Casalesi clan The Casalesi clan is a clan within the Camorra, an Italian criminal organization, operating from Casal di Principe and San Cipriano d'Aversa in the province of Caserta between Naples and Latium. Formed by Antonio Bardellino, it is a confederatio ...

** Fabbrocino clan **

Giuliano clan The Giuliano clan was a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan that had its base in the area of Forcella, in Naples. Its sphere of influence extended to all the centre of the city of Naples for over four decades. History The clan was founded by Pio Vi ...

Nuvoletta clan The Nuvoletta clan was a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan operating from the town of Marano di Napoli, situated on the northern outskirts of the city of Naples, southern Italy. The Nuvolettas belonged to a new style of Camorra, one that had the di ...

Vollaro clan The Vollaro clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the area east of Naples, more specifically in the town of Portici and San Sebastiano al Vesuvio, a small village in the Vesuvius area. History The Vollaro clan was founded in the mid-seve ...

Scissionisti di Secondigliano The Scissionisti di Secondigliano or Amato-Pagano clan is a Camorra clan from the Secondigliano district of Naples, headed by Raffaele Amato and Cesare Pagano. They are also known as ''"Spagnoli"'' (Spaniards) because of their strong presence in ...

** La Torre clan **

Alfieri clan The Alfieri clan was a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating on the north-east of Naples, with its sphere of influence in the municipalities of Saviano and Nola. History The association between the two Alfieri brothers, Salvatore and Carmine was form ...

** Russo clan *

Sacra Corona Unita Sacra Corona Unita (, ; acronym: SCU) also known as fourth mafia is a Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society from the Apulia region in Southern Italy, and it is especially active in the areas of Brindisi, Lecce, and Taranto. Ori ...

Società foggiana The Società foggiana, also known as ''Mafia Foggiana'' (''Foggian mafia'') and the fifth mafia (in addition to Cosa Nostra in Sicily, the ’Ndrangheta in Calabria, the Camorra in Campania and the Sacra Corona Unita in greater Apulia, from whic ...

Stidda The Stidda (; ) is a Sicilian & Maltese Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society centered in the central-southern part of Sicily & Malta. Members are known as ''stiddari'' or ''stiddaroli''. It is most active in the rural parts of ...

Mala del Brenta The Nuova Mala del Brenta (), also known as Mafia veneta ("Venetian Mafia") or Mafia del Piovese, is an organized crime group based in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, north-eastern Italy. The criminal organization's structure is like a ...

Basilischi The Basilischi () is an organized crime group based in Basilicata, Southern Italy, officially formed in 1994 by Giovanni Luigi Cosentino in Potenza. On 22 April 1999, 84 orders for pre-trial custody were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Pote ...

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Banda della Magliana The Banda della Magliana (, ''Magliana Gang'') is an Italian criminal organization based in Rome. It was founded in 1975. Given by the media, the name refers to the original neighborhood, the Magliana, of some of its members. The ''Banda della ...

Mafia Capitale The Mafia Capitale is the name given to an organized crime organization and subsequent investigation involving the government of the city of Rome, in which members stole money destined for city services and carried out other criminal activities su ...

* Milanese gangs **

Banda della Comasina La Banda della Comasina (; "Gang of the Comasina") is the name which the Italian media used to describe a criminal group active in the 1970s in robberies, kidnappings and weapons trafficking in the northern area of Milan: the Comasina. The area of ...

** Turatello crew * White Uno Gang

British organised crime "firms"

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

** Adams crime family **

The Richardson Gang The Richardson Gang was an English crime gang based in South London, England in the 1960s. Also known as the "Torture Gang", they had a reputation as some of London's most sadistic gangsters. Their alleged specialities included pulling teeth o ...

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The Firm The FIRM (stylized as The FIRM) is a brand of exercise videos and equipment currently owned by Gaiam. The original "The FIRM" videos are best known for popularizing a hybrid of aerobic exercise and weight training. History In 1979, Anna Bens ...

The Syndicate ''The Syndicate'' is a British television drama series. It was written by Kay Mellor and is broadcast on BBC One. It sees five members of a betting syndicate win the lottery. Each series follows a different syndicate. The first series is set i ...

** Comer gang ** Hunt Crime Syndicate ** Buttmarsh Boys **

Interwar era In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days), the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War. The interwar period was relativel ...

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Messina Brothers The Messina Brothers were five brothers who led a criminal organisation in London from the 1930s to the 1950s. Early life The father of the five Maltese Messina brothers was Giuseppe Messina (possibly born as Giuseppe Calabrese) from Linguag ...

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Sabini syndicate Charles "Darby" Sabini (born Ottavio Handley; 11 July 1888 – 4 October 1950) was a British-Italian mob boss and considered protector of Little Italy during the interwar years. Early life Sabini was known by many names and his actual name is ...

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Hoxton Gang The Hoxton Gang (or Hoxton Mob) was an independent street gang based in London's Soho district during the interwar years. They were one of several gangs which fought against Charles "Darby" Sabini and the "Italian Mob", specifically over control ...

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Elephant and Castle Mob The Elephant and Castle Mob were one of the many independent street gangs active in London's underworld during the interwar years. A rival of mobster Charles "Darby" Sabini along with the Birmingham Boys and the Cortesi brothers of Saffron Hill, ...

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Birmingham Boys The Birmingham Boys (also known as the Brummagem Boys or the Brum Boys) were a street gang whose power extended from the North of England to London's underworld, between the 1910s and 1930s. They lost control of the South East racecourses to th ...

Essex Boys ''Essex Boys'' is a 2000 British crime film. It was directed by Terry Winsor and stars Sean Bean, Alex Kingston, Tom Wilkinson, Charlie Creed-Miles and Holly Davidson. Plot The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated ...

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

Quality Street Gang The Quality Street Gang operated in Manchester, England, in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Although considered by some senior officers in the Greater Manchester Police to be the instigators of much of Manchester's major crime, many others believed ...

** Noonan firm ** Cheetham Hillbillies **

The Gooch Close Gang The Gooch Close Gang also known as the G.C.O.G's (Gooch Close Original Gangsters) or simply “The Gooch” in Manchester, is an organised crime group based in Moss Side and surrounding neighbourhoods of south Manchester, England. Most members of ...

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

** Curtis Warren's drug empire **

Whitney gang The Whitney gang were a notorious family gang from the Anfield district of Liverpool. In November 2011, the family and their associates were sentenced to a total of 82 years in prison for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs, with individual senten ...

Aggi Crew The Aggi Crew were a criminal drug gang based in the St Paul's district of Bristol. The name of the gang is an abbreviation of aggravated burglary ("doing an aggi") according to its former leader. History The gang dominated the city's drug mark ...

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...

** McGraw firm ** Thompson firm ** Delta Crime Syndicate *

Brighton razor gangs The Brighton razor gangs were groups of razor-wielding youths involved in racketeering on the local racecourses in the 1930s and 1940s. They formed the background for Graham Greene's novel '' Brighton Rock''. Gangs operating in Brighton included th ...

* Bestwood Cartel

Balkan The Balkans ( ), also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the who ...
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Albanian mafia Albanian mafia or Albanian organized crime ( sq, Mafia Shqiptare) are the general terms used for criminal organizations based in Albania or composed of ethnic Albanians. Albanian organized crime is active in Europe, North America, South America ...

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Kosovo Liberation Army The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA; , UÇK) was an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that sought the separation of Kosovo, the vast majority of which is inhabited by Albanians, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the ...

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Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

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Gang of Çole Gang of Çole ( or ''Banda e Zani Çaushit'') was an Albanian criminal group that operated in the city of Vlora during 1997–2001. The peak of their criminal activity was during March–June 1997, when anarchy reigned in the South. Gang members w ...

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Gang of Gaxhai Gang of Gaxhai () was a criminal group created in March 1997 that operated in the city of Vlora during 1997 when anarchy reigned in the South. Its criminal activity peaked during the period March–June 1997. The gang was established by Gazmend ...

***Gang of Pusi i Mezinit ***Lazarat marijuana growers **Rudaj Organization (New York City) ** Gang of Ismail Lika **Princ Dobroshi, Dobroshi gang (International) **NaserliganDagens Nyheter - Ligorna har kopplat greppet om Sverige
(Swedish) (Sweden) **Organized crime in Sweden, K-Falangen (Sweden) *Bosnian mafia **Jusuf Prazina, Prazina gangSiegel, Dina (2003) ''Global organized crime: trends and developments'', Springer, **Turković Organization **Ismet Bajramović, Bajramović gang **Ramiz Delalić, Delalić gang **Tito & Dino Cartel **Organized crime in Sweden, M-Falangen (Sweden) **Auto-Mafia, Car Theft Mob *Bulgarian mafia ''(see also Multigroup)'' **VIS (criminal organisation), VIS **SIC (criminal organisation), SIC **Ivo Karamanski, Karamanski gang **TIM (firm), TIM **Naglite *Serbian mafia **Željko Ražnatović, Arkan clan **Zemun Clan **Joca Amsterdam gang **Ljubomir Magaš, Magaš clan **Đorđe Božović, Giška gang **Pink Panthers **Serb mafia in Scandinavia ***Rade Kotur, Kotur mob ***Ratko Đokić, Yugoslav Brotherhood *Montenegrin mafia ''(see also Milo Đukanović#Criminal investigation in Italy, allegations of Milo Đukanović's involvement in cigarette smuggling)'' *Macedonian mafia **Frankfurt mafia **Bajrush klan **Nezim klan' *Romanian organized crime, Romanian mafia **Sergiu Băhăian, Băhăian organisation **Clanu Camataru **Clanu Cordunenilor **Clanu Rosianu **Craiova Underground Killers Gang *Assassination of Ivo Pukanić#Croatian organized crime, Croatian organized crime ''(see also Croatian National Resistance, involved in racketeering in the United States during the Cold War) **Croatian Democratic Union

Post-Soviet organized crime

Although organized crime existed in the Soviet era, the gangs really gained in power and international reach during the Perestroika, transition to capitalism. The term Russian Mafia, 'mafiya' or mob is a blanket (and somewhat inaccurate) term for the various organized crime groups that emerged in this period from the 15 former republics of the USSR and unlike their Italian counterparts does not mean members are necessarily of Russian ethnicity or uphold any ancient criminal traditions, although this is the case for some members. *Israeli mafia#Ex-Soviet organized crime, Russian-Jewish mafia **Brighton Beach#Crime, Brighton Beach ***Evsei Agron, Agron gang ***Boris Nayfeld, Nayfeld gang ***Marat Balagula, Balagula gang **Semion Mogilevich, Mogilevich organization *Brothers' Circle (Existence is debatable) *Russian mafia ''(See also Lubyanka Criminal Group, Three Whales Corruption Scandal and Sergei Magnitsky)'' **Moscow ***Izmaylovskaya gang ***Solntsevskaya bratvaVarese, Frederico (2005) ''The Russian mafia: private protection in a new market economy'', Oxford University Press, ****Vyacheslav Ivankov, New York branch ***Orekhovskaya gang **St Petersburg#Crime, St Petersburg'' (See also Roman Tsepov#"Baltik-Eskort", Baltik-Eskort)'' ***Tambov Gang **Tolyatti#Organized crime, Togliatti mafia **Uralmash gang **Maxim Lazovsky, Lazovsky gang **Vitali Dyomochka, Vladivostok gang **Alexander Solonik, Kurganskaya group **Kushchevskaya massacre, Tsapok gang **Ryazan#Crime, 'Elephants' group **Kazan gang **A.U.E. *Ukrainian mafia ''(See also Ukrainian oligarchs and Oleksandr Muzychko)'' **Akhat Bragin, Donetsk Clan **Sergey Aksyonov#Alleged links to organized crime, Salem gang **Right Sector#2015 clash with Ukraine's special security service, Mukacheve cigarette smuggling syndicate *Foreign relations of Lithuania#Illicit drug trafficking, Lithuanian mafia **Boris Dekanidze, Vilnius Brigade *Estonian mafia **Toomas Helin, Linnuvabriku group *Mafia state#Transnistria, Transnistrian mafia

Caucasian crime syndicates

''See also Caucasus Emirate#Funding, Caucasus Emirate'' *Georgian mafia ''(See also Mkhedrioni and Forest Brothers (Georgia), Forest Brothers)'' **Tariel Oniani, Kutaisi clan **Aslan Usoyan, Tbilisi clan **Otari Kvantrishvili, 21st Century Association *Armenian mafiaCBS News/Associated Press - Armenian Organized Crime Grows More Complex
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Drug trafficking in Central Asia, Central Asian crime syndicates

*Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (Asia and Oceania)#Corruption, human rights and organized crime, Uzbek mafia ''(See also Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan)'' **Gafur Rakhimov, Rakhimov organization *Tulip Revolution#Possible involvement of organized crime, Kyrgyz mafia **Bayaman Erkinbayev, Erkinbayev group **Ryspek Akmatbayev, Akmatbayev group **Kamchy Kolbayev, Kolbayev group

Asian organized crime

East Asian criminal organizations

*Kkangpae, Korean criminal organizations ''(see also North Korea's illicit activities)'' **Kim Du-han, Jongro street gang

yakuza, Japanese Yakuza

''See also Kenji Doihara#Criminal activities, Kenji Doihara's criminal activities and Aum Shinrikyo'' The yakuza of Japan are similar to the Italian mafias in that they originated centuries ago and follow a rigid set of traditions, but have several aspects that make them unique, such as their Body suit (tattoo), full-body tattoos and their fairly open place in Japanese society. Many yakuza groups are umbrella organizations, smaller gangs reporting to a larger crime syndicate.

=Active yakuza groups

= * Yamaguchi-gumi, Roku-daime Yamaguchi-gumi 六代目山口組Kaplan, David E. & Dubro, Alec (2003) ''Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworld'', University of California Press, ** Kodo-kai, San-daime Kodo-kai 三代目弘道会 ** Kokusui-kai, Go-daime Kokusui-kai 五代目國粹会 * Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi 神戸山口組 ** Takumi-gumi, Ni-daime Takumi-gumi 二代目宅見組 * Yamaken-gumi, Go-daime Yamaken-gumi 五代目山健組 * Ikeda-gumi 池田組 * Kizuna-kai 絆會 * Inagawa-kai 稲川会 ** Yamakawa-ikka, Yon-daime Yamakawa-ikka 四代目山川一家 ** Yokosuka-ikka, Ju-daime Yokosuka-ikka 十代目横須賀一家 ** Koganei-ikka, Juni-daime Koganei-ikka 十二代目小金井一家 * Sumiyoshi-kai 住吉会 ** Sumiyoshi-ikka, Sumiyoshi-ikka Shichi-daime 住吉一家七代目 ** Kobayashi-kai, Kobayashi-kai San-daime 小林会三代目 ** Kohei-ikka, Kohei-ikka Jusan-daime 幸平一家十三代目 ** Kyowa-ikka, Kyowa-ikka Shichi-daime 共和一家七代目 ** Doshida-ikka, Doshida-ikka Kyu-daime 圡支田一家九代目 ** Saikaiya, Saikaiya Kyu-daime 西海家九代目 ** Musashiya-ikka, Musashiya-ikka Ju-daime 武蔵屋一家十代目 ** Mabashi-ikka, Mabashi-ikka Shichi-daime 馬橋一家七代目 ** Shinwa-kai (Sumiyoshi-ikka), Shinwa-kai 親和会 *** Kansuke, Kansuke-ikka Juni-daime 勘助一家十二代目 ** Maruto-kai 丸唐会 ** Aota-kai 青田会 * Matsuba-kai 松葉会 ** Okubo-ikka, Okubo-ikka Juni-daime 大久保一家十二代目 * Kanto Sekine-gumi 関東関根組 * Kyokuto-kai 極東会 **　Matsuyama-rengokai 松山連合会 * Dojin-kai 道仁会 ** Ōmuta murders, Kitamura-gumi * Kudo-kai, Gon-daime Kudo-kai 五代目工藤會 * Aizukotetsu-kai, Shichi-daime Aizu-Kotetsu-kai 七代目会津小鉄会 *Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai, Kyokyuryu-kai 旭琉會 *Kyushu Seido-kai, Namikawa-kai 浪川会 *Kyosei-kai, Roku-daime Kyosei-kai 六代目共政会 *Fukuhaku-kai, Yon-daime Fukuhaku-kai 四代目福博会 *Soai-kai 双愛会 *Kyodo-kai, San-daime Kyodo-kai 三代目俠道会 *Taishu-kai 太州会 *Goda-ikka, Shichi-daime Goda-ikka 七代目合田一家 *Azuma-gumi, Ni-daime Azuma-gumi 二代目東組 *Asano-gumi, Go-daime Asano-gumi 五代目浅野組 *Sakaume-gumi, Ju-daime Sakaume-gumi 十代目酒梅組 *Kozakura-ikka, Yon-daime Kozakura-ikka 四代目小桜一家 *Shinwa-kai (Takamatsu), Ni-daime Shinwa-kai 二代目親和会 *Toa-kai, Tosei-kai 東声会 * Kumamoto-kai, San-daime Kumamoto-kai 三代目熊本會 * Iijima-kai, Kyu-daime Iijima-kai * Chojiya-kai 丁字家会

=Defunct yakuza groups

= * Kantō-kai 関東会 * Honda-kai, Ni-daime Honda-kai 二代目本多会 * Dainippon Heiwa-kai, Ni-daime Dainippon Heiwa-kai 二代目大日本平和会 * Yamaguchi-gumi Goto-gumi 後藤組 * Yamaguchi-gumi Suishin-kai 水心会 * Ichiwa-kai 一和会 * Kumamoto-rengo 熊本連合 * Kumamoto rengo Yamano-kai, San-daime Yamano-kai 三代目山野会 * Nakano-kai 中野会 * Kyokuto Sakurai-soke-rengokai 極東桜井總家連合会

"Hangure"

Hangure (半グレ, literally "half-grey") are considered to be“''jun-bōryokudan''(準暴力団, quasi-yakuza)” groups. The term half-grey in Japanese refers to groups that commit crimes, yet are not considered to fit the description of criminal organizations (referring to yakuza clans in this context). They mostly consist of Former Bōsōzoku teenagers and Former Juvenile delinquency, juvenile delinquents(also known as ''furyō''(不良)) in middle and high schools, who became an adult and refuse to join the Yakuza because of their dislike for traditional code of the Yakuza. Sometimes they outsource their crimes to their kōhai delinquents at Old Bōsōzoku group or Alma Mater as Senpai and kōhai, Senpai. Hangures engage in activities such as loan sharking, Illegal drug trade, drug-trafficking, sex trafficking, prostitution, fraud(like a Voice phishing), Robbery, pornography, smuggling, theft, Arms trafficking, weapons trafficking(mainly Modified Modelguns, Model Guns capable of firing real ammunition or Real Handguns, according to Ex-Hangure who was formerly in the Dragon (Bōsōzoku), Dragon), and underground fight club. *Kanto Union :jp:関東連合, 関東連合 (semi-defunct) *Dragon (Bōsōzoku), Dragon :jp:怒羅権, 怒羅権 (composed mainly of second and third generation repatriated Japanese orphans in China, Japanese orphans and Chinese people in Japan, Japanese people of Chinese descent.) *Uchikoshi Spector 打越スペクター (conflict the Kanto Union.) **Kimura Brother's :jp:六本木クラブ襲撃事件#人違いの背景, 木村兄弟 (street gang and ex Yamaguchi-gumi member.they against the Kanto Union for a long time.) *Ota Union 大田連合 *Tuwamono :jp:強者, 強者(defunct) **Kenmun's crew :jp:拳月, 拳月グループ *Abyss :jp:半グレ#対策, アビス (youth gang)

Sam Gor, Triads and other Chinese criminal organizations

Sam Gor, also known as The Company, is an international crime syndicate, based in Asia-Pacific. The organization is made up of members of five different triads (14K (triad), Bamboo Union, Wo Shing Wo, Sun Yee On and Big Circle Boys). Sam Gor is understood to be headed by Chinese-Canadian Tse Chi Lop. The Cantonese Chinese syndicate is primarily involved in drug trafficking, earning at least $8 billion per year. Sam Gor is alleged to control 40% or more of the Asia-Pacific methamphetamine market, while also trafficking heroin, ketamine and synthetic drugs, and precursor chemicals. The group is active or working with organized crime partners in a variety of countries, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Vietnam." Sam Gor previously produced meth in Southern China and is now believed to manufacture mainly in the

, specifically Shan State, Myanmar, responsible for much of the massive surge of crystal meth in recent years. The group is understood to be headed by Tse Chi Lop, a Chinese-Canadian gangster born in Guangzhou, China. Tse is a former member of the Hong Kong-based crime group, the Big Circle Gang and has been compared in prominence to Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Pablo Escobar. Sam Gor is made up of 14K (triad), 14K, Wo Shing Wo, Sun Yee On, Big Circle Gang and Bamboo Union. The group also does business with many other local crime groups such as the Yakuza in Japan and the Comanchero Motorcycle Club and Lebanese mafia in Australia. The Triad (underground society), Triads is a popular name for a number of Chinese criminal secret societies, which have existed in various forms over the centuries (see for example Tiandihui). However, not all Chinese gangs fall into line with these traditional groups, as many non-traditional criminal organizations have formed, both in China and the Chinese diaspora. *Organised crime in Hong Kong, Hong Kong-based Triads ** 14K Triad, 14K Group :zh:十四K, 十四K ** Wo Group 和字頭 *** Wo Shing Wo :zh:和勝和, 和勝和 *** Wo On Lok/Shui Fong, Wo On Lok (Shui Fong) :zh:和安樂, 和安樂(水房) *** Wo Hop To :zh:和合圖, 和合圖(老和) ** Sun Yee On :zh:新義安, 新義安(老新) ** Luen Group 聯字頭 ** Big Circle Gang 大圈 * Sio Sam Ong (小三王) * Social problems in Chinatown#Gangs, Chinese-American gangs ''(See also Tong (organization), Tongs)'' ** Wah Ching 華青 ** Ping On ** Black Dragons (gang), Black Dragons 黑龍 ** Jackson Street Boys 積臣街小子 * Secret societies in Singapore *ai Lok San / Pek Kim Leng **Wah Kee:zh:華記, 華記 *Taiwan-based Triads **United Bamboo Gang :zh:竹聯幫, 竹聯幫 **Four Seas Gang :zh:四海幫, 四海幫 **Lo Fu-chu, Celestial Alliance *Crime in China, Mainland Chinese crime groups ''(see also Hanlong Group#Allegations of corruption, Hanlong Group)'' ** Chongqing gang trials, Chongqing group 重慶組 ** Defunct ***Honghuzi gangs *** Green Gang 青帮 ** Boshe group *Triad (organized crime), Triads in Chợ Lớn, Ho Chi Minh City, Cholon **Wu Bang

Southeast Asian criminal organizations

*Thailand **Chao pho **Red Wa *Drugs in Cambodia, Cambodian crime gangs **Teng Bunma organization *Organised crime in Indonesia, Indonesian crime gangs **Preman (Indonesian gangster), Preman ''(See also Pancasila Youth and Insurgency in Aceh#Indonesian military's interests in Aceh, insurgency in Aceh)'' **Anton Medan, Medan gang *Crime in Malaysia, Malaysian crime gangs **Mamak Gang *List of gangs in the Philippines, Filipino crime gangs **Waray-Waray gangs ** Bahala Na Gang **Kuratong Baleleng **Sigue Sigue Sputnik (gang), Sigue Sigue Sputnik gang **Emilio Changco, Changco gang

Vietnamese Xã Hội Đen

*Bình Xuyên *Đại Cathay's mafia during the 60s *Năm Cam's mafia of the 90s *Khánh Trắng's "Đồng Xuân Labor Union", a crime syndicate under the guise of a legal entity *Dung Hà's gang *Mạnh Bệu’s Gaming law, illegal gambling ring *Dũng Mặt Sắt’s Illegal smuggling, illegal car smuggling organization *Minh Sâm’s illegal logging organization

South Asian criminal organizations

*Indian mafia ''(See also Insurgency in Northeast India)'' **Mumbai ***D-Company डी कंपनी ***Chotta Rajan, Rajan gang राजन गिरोह ***Arun Gawli, Gawli gang गवली गिरोह ***Bada Rajan, Rajan gang ***Manya Surve, Surve gang ***Varadarajan Mudaliar, Mudaliar gang ***Haji Mastan, Mastan gang ***Ali Budesh, Budesh gang ***Pappu Kalani, Kalani gang **Uttar Pradesh#Crime and accidents, Uttar Pradesh ***Mukhtar Ansari, Ansari gang ***D. P. Yadav, Yadav gang **Bangalore ***Muthappa Rai, Rai gang ***Kotwal Ramachandra, Ramachandra gang ***M. P. Jayaraj, Jayaraj gang **Kala Kaccha Gang **Chaddi Baniyan Gang *List of Sri Lankan mobsters, Sri Lankan criminal groups ''(See also Tamil Tigers, Eelam People's Democratic Party and Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal)'' *Organised crime in Pakistan, Pakistani mafia ''(See also Peoples' Aman Committee, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan, Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Inter-Services Intelligence#Drugs trade, ISI involvement with drugs)'' **Chotu gang **Uzair Baloch, Lyari Gang *Mafia Raj *Dacoit gangs **Man Singh (dacoit), Singh gang **Veerappan gang **Phoolan Devi, Devi gang

Middle Eastern criminal organizations

*Contents of the United States diplomatic cables leak (Iran)#Organized crime, Iranian organized crime ''(see also People's Mujahedin of Iran#Fraud and money laundering, Jundallah (Iran), Jundallah and illegal activities of the Controversies surrounding Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, IRGC)'' **Omid Tahvili, Tahvili crime family *Israeli mafia ''(see also Lehi (group), Stern Gang)'' **Abergil Crime Family משפחת אברג'יל **Yaakov Alperon, Alperon crime family משפחת הפשע אלפרון **Zeev Rosenstein organization הארגון של זאב רוזנשטיין **Israeli mafia#Palestinian organized crime, Palestinian organized crime ''(See also Abu Nidal Organization)'' ***Doghmush clan *Lebanese mafia ''(See also Lebanese Civil War#Political groups and militias, Lebanese Civil War militias)'' **Crime in Germany#Middle Eastern crime clans, Mhallami-Lebanese crime clans ***Miri-Clan ***Al-Zein Clan **Ayman Joumaa, Juomaa drug trafficking organisation ''(See also Hezbollah)'' **John Ibrahim, Ibrahim clan *Turkish mafia **Illegal drug trade in Turkey, Crime groups in Turkey ''(see also Deep state in Turkey, Deep state and Yüksekova Gang)'' ***Dündar Kılıç, Kilic gang ***Alaattin Çakıcı, Cakici gang ***Sedat Peker, Peker gang ***Mehmet Ali Yaprak, Yaprak gang ***Ömer Lütfü Topal, Topal organisation ***Söylemez Gang **Turkish mafia#Kurdish crime groups, Kurdish mafia ''(see also Kurdistan Workers' Party)'' ***Hüseyin Baybaşin, Baybasin drug organization ***Behçet Cantürk, Cantürk organization **Turkish organised crime in Great Britain ***Arifs (gang), Arifs **Crime in Germany#Turkish and Kurdish organized crime, Turkish organised crime in Germany ***Necati Arabaci, Arabaci clan **Nedim Imac, Imac clan (Netherlands)

Crime in Australia, Australian organized crime

*Crime in Melbourne, Melbourne **The Carlton Crew, Carlton Crew **Moran family **Carl Williams (criminal), Williams family **Pettingill family **Squizzy Taylor, Richmond gang *Crime in Perth, Perth **Sword Boys *Crime in Sydney, Sydney **Razor gangs **5T (gang), 5T gangSmall, Clive & Gilling, Tom (2010) ''Smack Express: How Organized Crime Got Hooked on Drugs'', Allen & Unwin, **George Freeman (bookmaker), Freeman gang **Lenny McPherson, The Team **Abe Saffron, Mr Sin gang *Italian-Australian organized crime **The Carlton Crew **Ndrangheta'' *** Honoured Society

Caribbean crime groups

*Dole Chadee, Chadee gang (Trinidad & Tobago) (see also ''Jamaat al Muslimeen'') *Jamaican Yardies & Jamaican Posse, Posses **Shower Posse **Green Bay Massacre, POW Posse **Tottenham Mandem ***Death of Mark Duggan#Background, Star Gang **Donovan Bennett, Klans Massive *No Limit Soldiers (organized crime group), No Limit Soldiers * Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos *Roger Khan, Phantom death squad (Guyana) *Zoe Pound (Haitian people, Haitian, see also Tonton Macoute)

African organized crime

*Mai-Mai militia gangs *The Numbers Gang *Crime in Kenya, Kenya **Ibrahim Akasha, Akasha crime family **Mungiki *Cape Verdean organized crime *Piracy in Somalia, Somali pirates **Mohamed Abdi Hassan, Hobyo-Harardhere Piracy Network *Nigerian organized crime

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