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A drug cartel is any
Mexican cartels (also known in 
*'' Milenio Cartel'' (First loyal to the Sinaloa Cartel federation, later independent) (disbanded)
** La Resistencia (Splintered from the Milenio Cartel) (Disbanded)
** Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Independent remnants of the Milenio Cartel)
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**Cártel del Centro (cell of the Beltran-Leyva Cartel in Mexico City) (Disbanded)
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* Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel
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The United States of America is the world's largest consumer of cocaine and other illegal drugs. This is a list of American criminal organizations involved in illegal drug traffic, drug trade and other related crimes in the United States:
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Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine on the planet, Cocaine production in Colombia reached an all-time high in 2017.
Active Colombian Drug Cartels.
* The Black Eagles
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World Drug Report 2010 Statistical Annex: Drug seizures
to sixth in the world in 2012. The cartel groups involved include: * The
The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba
", ''Transnational Organized Crime'', Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1997 which became an important hideout as the clan bought hotels and founded various businesses in Caracas and Valencia, as well as an extended ranch in Barinas, near the Colombian border. ''"Venezuela has its own Cosa Nostra family as if it is Sicilian territory,"'' according to the Italian police. ''"The structure and hierarchy of the Mafia has been entirely reproduced in Venezuela."'' The Cuntrera-Caruana clan had direct links with the ruling Commission of the Sicilian Mafia, and are acknowledged by the American Cosa Nostra. Pasquale, Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera were expelled from Venezuela in 1992, "almost secretly smuggled out of the country, as if it concerned one of their own drug transports. It was imperative they could not contact people on the outside who could have used their political connections to stop the expulsion." Their expulsion was ordered by a commission of the Venezuelan Senate headed by Senator Cristobal Fernandez Dalo and his money laundering investigator,
The Troublemaker
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Venezuela Deports Two Drug Kingpins, Calls US Drug Blacklist "Abusive and Interventionist"
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criminal organization
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 ...
with the intention of supplying drug trafficking
A drug is any chemical substance that causes a change in an organism's physiology or psychology when consumed. Drugs are typically distinguished from food and substances that provide nutritional support. Consumption of drugs can be via inhalati ...
operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprise
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit."
Having a business name does not separa ...
s. The term was applied when the largest trafficking organizations reached an agreement to coordinate the production and distribution. The term is used to refer to any criminal narcotics related organization.
The basic structure of a drug cartel is as follows:
* Falcons (Spanish: ''Halcones''): Considered as the "eyes and ears" of the streets, the "falcons" are the lowest rank in any drug cartel. They are responsible for supervising and reporting the activities of the police, the military and rival groups.
* Hitmen (Spanish: ''Sicarios''): The armed group within the drug cartel, responsible for carrying out assassinations, kidnappings, thefts and extortions, operating protection rackets, as well as defending their ''plaza'' (turf) from rival groups and the military.
* Lieutenants (Spanish: ''Tenientes''): The second highest position in the drug cartel organization, responsible for supervising the hitmen and falcons within their own territory. They are allowed to carry out low-profile murders without permission from their bosses.
* Drug lord
A drug lord, drug baron, kingpin or narcotrafficker is a high-ranking crime boss who controls a sizable network of people involved in the illegal drug trade. Such figures are often difficult to bring to justice, as they are normally not directly ...
s (Spanish: ''Capos''): The highest position in any drug cartel, responsible for supervising the entire drug industry, appointing territorial leaders, making alliances, in addition to planning high-profile murders.
There are other operating groups within the drug cartels. For example, the drug producers and suppliers, although not considered in the basic structure, are critical operators of any drug cartel, along with the smugglers
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.
There are various ...
, distributors
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, sales representatives, accountant
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s and money launderers. Furthermore, the arms suppliers operate in a completely different circle; they are technically not considered part of the cartel's logistics.
Africa
* Cape Verdean organized crime *Mungiki
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Kinnear, Karen L (2009) ''Gangs: a reference handbook'', ABC-CLIO,
*Organized crime in Nigeria
Organized crime in Nigeria includes activities by fraudsters, bandits (such as looting and kidnappings on major highways), drug traffickers and racketeers, which have spread across Western Africa. Nigerian criminal gangs rose to prominence in ...
Shanty, Frank & Mishra, Patit (2007) ''Organized crime : from trafficking to terrorism'', ABC-CLIO,
**Confraternities in Nigeria
Confraternities in Nigeria are secretive student groups within Nigerian higher education that have been involved in violence and organized crime since the 1980s. The exact death toll of confraternity activities is unclear. One estimate in 2002 w ...
***Black Axe (organized crime group)
Black Axe is a confraternity in Nigeria that now operates as an international criminal organization, which originated around 1977. Among many crimes it was responsible for the Obafemi Awolowo University massacre.
History
According to BBC Africa ...
** Anini gang
*Mai-Mai
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militia gangs
* Moroccan hashish smugglers
** Ahmed organization
Americas
North America
Canada
* Rivard organization * Red Scorpions *Bacon Brothers
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*Montreal
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**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 earni ...
** Blass gang
** Dubois Brothers
* Punjabi-Canadian organized crime
** Punjabi Mafia ਜੌਹਲ ਗਿਰੋਹ (Canada)Schneider, Stephen (2009) ''Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada'', John Wiley and Sons,
*Canadian mafia families
**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 ...
**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 ...
**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 ...
**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 ...
** Papalia crime family
** Luppino crime family
** Perri crime family
** Siderno Group
**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. ...
Mexico
Mexican cartels (also known in Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...
as: ''la Mafia'' (the 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 ...
or the mob), ''La Maña'' (the skill / the bad manners), ''narcotraficantes'' (narco-traffickers), or simply as ''narcos'' usually refers to several, rival, criminal organizations that are combated by the Mexican government in the Mexican War on Drugs (List sorted by branches and heritage):
Note:As of 2020 the DEA considered the Cartels of Sinaloa-Beltran, Juarez-Linea, Jalisco, Golfo-Noreste-Zetas, La Familia and Rojos-Guerreros the most influential cartels in Mexico.
*'' Gulf Cartel'' (The oldest Mexican criminal syndicate, started as prohibition-era bootlegging gang)
** Los Zetas (Formerly part of the Gulf Cartel, now independent)
** La Familia Michoacana (Formerly a branch of the Gulf Cartel, then went independent) (Disbanded)
** Knights Templar Cartel (Splintered from La Familia Cartel)
*''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 Fo ...
'' (The first full-fledged Mexican drug cartel, from which most of the big cartels spawned) (disbanded in 1989)
*''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 ...
'' (Spawned from the Guadalajara Cartel)
** Colima Cartel (members are now a branch of the Sinaloa Cartel)
** Sonora Cartel (was reformed in 2018 and is still a branch 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, the ...
(hitman squad) (Disbanded)
**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, ...
(Sinaloa cell in Chihuahua) (Disbanded)
** Los Ántrax (enforcer squad)
*'' Milenio Cartel'' (First loyal to the Sinaloa Cartel federation, later independent) (disbanded)
** La Resistencia (Splintered from the Milenio Cartel) (Disbanded)
** Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Independent remnants of the Milenio Cartel)
*''Beltrán-Leyva Organization
The Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO), also known as the Beltrán Leyva Cartel; es, Cártel de los Beltrán Leyva (CBL), was a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate, formerly headed by the five Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos Artu ...
'' (Formerly part of the Sinaloa Cartel federation, later independent) (disbanded)
**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 ...
(Beltran-Leyva enforcement squad) (Disbanded)
** South Pacific Cartel (branch of the Beltran Leyva Cartel in Morelos)
**Cártel del Centro (cell of the Beltran-Leyva Cartel in Mexico City) (Disbanded)
**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 ...
(Splinter from the Beltran-Leyva Cartel)
**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 ...
(gang)
**El Comando Del Diablo (gang) (Hitman squad of la Barredora) (Disbanded)
**La Mano Con Ojos (gang) (small cell of Beltran-Leyva members in the State of Mexico) (Disbanded)
**La Nueva Administración (Splintered from the Beltran-Leyva Cartel) (Disbanded)
**La Oficina (gang) (cell of the Beltran-Leyva Cartel in Aguascalientes) (Disbanded)
**Cártel de la Sierra (cell in Guerrero)
**Cártel de La Calle (cell in Chiapas)
**Los Chachos (gang in Tamaulipas) (Disbanded)
*''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 ...
'' (Spawned from the Guadalajara Cartel)
**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 traffi ...
(Was a branch of the disbanded Tijuana Cartel, its regional leader was captured in 2007)
*'' Juárez Cartel''(Spawned from the Guadalajara Cartel)
** La Línea (Juárez Cartel enforcer squad)
**Barrio Azteca
The Barrio Azteca (), or Los Aztecas (), is a Mexican-American street, and prison gang originally based in El Paso, Texas. The gang was formed in the jails of El Paso in 1986 and expanded into a transnational criminal organization. Currently on ...
(U.S. street gang) (Allied with La Linea)
* Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel
* Caborca Cartel
The Caborca Cartel ( es, Cártel de Caborca) is a Mexican criminal organization commanded by the veteran drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, (founder of the defunct Guadalajara Cartel) and concentrating its drug trafficking operations in the border m ...
*Lesser-known small-criminal organizations
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:
**Los Mexicles
Los Mexicles is a Mexican street gang based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. It is allied to the Sinaloa Cartel, a criminal group based in Sinaloa
Sinaloa (), officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Sinaloa ( en, Free and Sovereign State of ...
( U.S. street gang)
** Los Texas (street gang) (disbanded)
*Government officials: Other organizations that have been involved in drug trade or traffic in Mexico (this does not necessarily apply for the whole institution):
**Mexican officials:
***Municipal, state, and Federal Police forces in Mexico
***Mexican Armed Forces
The Mexican Armed Forces ( es, Fuerzas Armadas de México) are the military forces of the United Mexican States. The Spanish crown established a standing military in colonial Mexico in the eighteenth century. After Mexican independence in 1821, ...
(Army
An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...
and Navy
A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions. It in ...
)
***Mexico City International Airport
Mexico City International Airport ( es, link=yes, Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM); officially ''Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez'' (Benito Juárez International Airport) is the main international airport serving ...
*** Club Xoloitzcuintles (football)
**United States officials:
***Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice ...
(FBI) Juan García Ábrego
***Texas National Guard
The Texas Military Forces (TXMF) are the principal instrument through which the Texas Military Department (TMD) executes security policy for Texas, which has the second-largest population and border in the United States, and the 9th-largest eco ...
*** U.S. Customs and Border Protection
***United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor from 1933 to 1940 and the U.S. Department of Justice from 1940 to 2003.
Referred to by some as former INS and by others as legacy INS ...
United States
The United States of America is the world's largest consumer of cocaine and other illegal drugs. This is a list of American criminal organizations involved in illegal drug traffic, drug trade and other related crimes in the 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, 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,
*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 GangSifakis, 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.
Prohi ...
** 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,
*Prohibition-era
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gangs
**Galveston
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***Downtown Gang
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*** Beach Gang
*** The Maceo syndicate
** Shelton Brothers GangAngle, Paul M (2991) ''Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness'', University of Illinois Press,
** Sheldon Gang
** Broadway Mob
** The Lanzetta Brothers
** Circus Cafe Gang
** Wandering Family
** Remus organization
*Hispanic-American
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** Marielitos
*** The Corporation
Arizona Cartel
Border Brothers
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Paisas
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Nuestra Familia
*** Crips
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or Locs
*** Bloods
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or B Dogs
*** Surenos or SUR 13
*** Nortenos or Norte 14
** Puerto Rican mafia
*** Agosto organization
*** La ONU
*** Martinez Familia Sangeros
*** Solano organization
*** Negri organization
*** Márquez gambling ring
** Polanco-Rodriguez organization
*Los Angeles
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''(See also Rampart scandal)''
** Nash gang
** Wonderland Gang
* Dixie Mafia
** Cornbread Mafia
* Greek-American organized crime
**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 ...
* Assyrian/Chaldean mafiaSalinger, Lawrence (2005) '' Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime: A - I, Volume 1'' SAGE,
*Hawaii
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**The Company
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** Leota mob
* Wall gang
* Elkins mob
*The Chickens and the Bulls The Chickens and the Bulls (called 'Operation Homex' by the FBI) refers to an extortion ring that preyed on prominent, closeted, gay men in the 1960s. Corrupt police officers and police impersonators known as 'Bulls' , used young often underage boy ...
* Binion mob
* Johnston gang
=American Mafia
= Italian immigrants to the United States in the early 19th century formed various small-time gangs which gradually evolved into sophisticated crime syndicates which dominated organized crime in America for several decades. Although government crackdowns and a less-tightly knit Italian-American community have largely reduced their power, they remain an active force in the underworld.=Active crime families
= *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 memb ...
* 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 ...
of New York City
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** Bonanno
*** Indelicato crew
*** The Motion Lounge Crew
**Colombo
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*** Scarpa crew
**Genovese
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People
* Alfred Genovese (1931–2011), American oboist
* Alfredo Genovese (born 1964), Argentine art ...
*** 116th Street Crew
*** Greenwich Village Crew
*** New Jersey Crew
**Gambino
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Surname
* (1899–1987), Argentine conductor
* Antonella Gambino (born 1990), Argentine handball player
* Domenico Gambino (1890–1968), Italian actor, screenwriter, and ...
*** Ozone Park Boys
***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 ...
***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
The Gambino crime family (pronounced ) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Am ...
** 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 ...
*** The Vario Crew
*** 107th Street gang
* Magaddino crime family
*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 Jer ...
*The Chicago Outfit
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''(see also Unione Siciliane)''
** Las Vegas crew (defunct)
*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'') pheno ...
*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 ea ...
*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
*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
*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 ...
=Defunct mafia families
= * Morello crime family * Genna crime family *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'') phen ...
* St. Louis crime family
* Rochester Crime Family
*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 Mafia crime family based in Dallas, Texas.
History
Carlo Piranio
Carlo Piranio, a native of Sicily, immigrated to the U.S. circa 1901 with his brother Joseph. They first settled ...
* Denver crime family
* San Francisco crime family
* San Jose crime family
* Seattle crime family
* Omaha crime family
*Licavoli Mob
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'') ph ...
* 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 distrib ...
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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
** Schultz gang
** The Bugs and Meyer Mob
** Shapiro Brothers
**Yiddish Black Hand
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** Rothstein organization
** Kaplan gang
** Rosenzweig gang
*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 J ...
(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
= African-American organized crime
= *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 * The Family *
Detroit
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**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" ...
** Young Boys, Inc.
** Chambers Brothers
*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. Since ...
**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 holdin ...
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 holdin ...
*Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the ...
**69 Mob
Felix Wayne Mitchell Jr. (August 23, 1954 – August 21, 1986) was a drug lord from Oakland, California, and leader of the "69 Mob" criminal organization, which operated throughout California and into the Midwest. He was known as "Felix the Cat" ...
*Baltimore
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** Williams organization (drug trafficking)
* Washington, D.C.
** Rayful Edmond organization
*Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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** Theodore Roe's gambling ring
** Stokes organization
*Atlantic City
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** Aso Posse
*Miami
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** Miami Boys
* Rosemond Organization
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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, als ...
English, T.J. ''Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster''. New York: HarperCollins, 2005,
**James Patrick O'Leary
James Patrick O'Leary (1869 – January 22, 1925) was a gambling boss and saloon owner in Chicago. His parents were Patrick and Irish-born Catherine O'Leary, in whose barn the Great Chicago Fire is alleged to have begun.
Biography
O'Leary was ...
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, prostitut ...
gang
** Valley Gang
**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
*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
**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 ...
**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, which figured prominently in the history of Boston for much of the 20th century.
The gang was headed by the McLaughlin brothers ( Bernie, Georgie, and Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin) a ...
**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'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 Iris ...
gang
* Tom Dennison empire
* Danny Greene's Celtic Club
* Nucky Johnson's Organization
*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 ...
* Enright gang
*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
**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 neigh ...
** White Hand Gang
** Higgins gang
*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-based criminal organization that sold illegal liquor during Prohibition in addition to committing labor slugging, voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder. Although predominantly Irish-American, the Hogan Gan ...
**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 ...
Caribbean
* Chadee gang (Trinidad and Tobago
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)
*Jamaican Yardies & Posses
** Shower Posse
** POW Posse
** Tottenham Mandem
*** Star Gang
** Klans Massive
* No Limit Soldiers
* Phantom death squad (Guyana
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)
*Zoe Pound
Zoe Pound is a criminal street gang based in Miami, Florida founded by Haitian immigrants in the mid-1990s.
Etymology
"Zoe'" is the anglicized variant of the word '' zo'', Haitian Creole for "bone", as members were known to be "hard to the bon ...
( Haitian, see also Tonton Macoute)
* Dominican drug cartels
** Paulino organization
** Féliz organization
South America
Brazil
*Comando Vermelho
Comando Vermelho (, ''Red Command'' or ''Red Commando''), also known as C.V. is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged primarily in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, protection racketeering, kidnappings-for-ransom, armored truck hijackings ...
* Primeiro Comando da Capital
*Terceiro Comando Puro
Terceiro Comando Puro is a Brazilian criminal organization in Rio de Janeiro. They split from the Terceiro Comando in 2002.
Group activity is concentrated in the northern and eastern areas, specifically the neighborhood of Senador Camará,
Refer ...
*Terceiro Comando
Terceiro Comando (Portuguese for ''Third Command'') is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged in drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro. It was founded in the early 1980s and is a break-away faction of the Comando Vermelho.
The ''Terceiro Comando ...
*Amigos dos Amigos
Amigos dos Amigos (ADA, ''Friends of Friends'') is a criminal organization that operates in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. It was started up in 1998 when a member of Comando Vermelho was expelled from the organization for ordering the murd ...
Bolivia
* Bolivian drug cartels ''(See also García Meza regime drug trafficking)'' ** Chapare Cartel ** La Corporación ** Santa Cruz CartelColombia
Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine on the planet, Cocaine production in Colombia reached an all-time high in 2017.
Active Colombian Drug Cartels.
* The Black Eagles
*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 neo-paramilitary gro ...
*Oficina de 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 ...
*National Liberation Army (Colombia)
The National Liberation Army (Spanish: ''Ejército de Liberación Nacional'', ELN) is a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict,
* FARC dissidents
*Los Rastrojos
Los Rastrojos is a Colombian drug cartel and paramilitary group engaged in the Colombian armed conflict. The ...
Historical Colombian Drug Cartels.
*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 ...
*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 ...
*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 ro ...
*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 fr ...
*United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
The United Self-Defences of Colombia (''Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia'', or AUC, in Spanish) was a Colombian far-right paramilitary and drug trafficking group which was an active belligerent in the Colombian armed conflict during the period ...
*Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army ( es, link=no, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de ColombiaEjército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC) is a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian confl ...
Peru
* Peruvian drug cartels ''(see alsoVladimiro Montesinos
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)''
** Zevallos organisation
Venezuela
Historically Venezuela has been a path to theUnited States
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for illegal drugs originating in Colombia, through Central America and Mexico
Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...
and Caribbean countries such as Haiti
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, the Dominican Republic
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, and Puerto Rico
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.
According to the United Nations
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, there has been an increase of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela since 2002. In 2005, Venezuela severed ties with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration
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(DEA), accusing its representatives of spying. Following the departure of the DEA from Venezuela and the expansion of DEA's partnership with Colombia in 2005, Venezuela became more attractive to drug traffickers. Between 2008 and 2012, Venezuela's cocaine seizure ranking among other countries declined, going from being ranked fourth in the world for cocaine seizures in 2008United NationsWorld Drug Report 2010 Statistical Annex: Drug seizures
to sixth in the world in 2012. The cartel groups involved include: * The
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 ...
moved to Venezuela,Tom Blickman (1997),The Rothschilds of the Mafia on Aruba
", ''Transnational Organized Crime'', Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1997 which became an important hideout as the clan bought hotels and founded various businesses in Caracas and Valencia, as well as an extended ranch in Barinas, near the Colombian border. ''"Venezuela has its own Cosa Nostra family as if it is Sicilian territory,"'' according to the Italian police. ''"The structure and hierarchy of the Mafia has been entirely reproduced in Venezuela."'' The Cuntrera-Caruana clan had direct links with the ruling Commission of the Sicilian Mafia, and are acknowledged by the American Cosa Nostra. Pasquale, Paolo and Gaspare Cuntrera were expelled from Venezuela in 1992, "almost secretly smuggled out of the country, as if it concerned one of their own drug transports. It was imperative they could not contact people on the outside who could have used their political connections to stop the expulsion." Their expulsion was ordered by a commission of the Venezuelan Senate headed by Senator Cristobal Fernandez Dalo and his money laundering investigator,
Thor Halvorssen Hellum
Thor Halvorssen Hellum (, locally , May 16, 1943 – July 20, 2014) was a Venezuelan-Norwegian businessman who served as CEO and President of the Venezuelan state-owned telephone company, CANTV and later as Special Commissioner for International ...
. They were arrested in September 1992 at Fiumicino airport (Rome), Fonzi, Gaeton.The Troublemaker
". ''
The Pennsylvania Gazette
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'' (November 1994). and in 1996 were sentenced to 13–20 years.
* Norte del Valle Cartel : In 2008 the leader of the Colombian Norte del Valle Cartel
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, Wilber Varela
Wilber Alirio Varela Fajardo (November 6, 1957 – 2008), also known as ''Jabón'' ("Soap"), was a Colombian drug trafficker. He was the leader of the Norte del Valle Cartel. A Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act indictment was fi ...
, was found murdered in a hotel in Mérida in Venezuela. In 2010, Venezuela arrested and deported to the United States Jaime Alberto "Beto" Marin, then head of the Norte del Valle Cartel.''Venezuelanalysis.com
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'', 20 September 2010Venezuela Deports Two Drug Kingpins, Calls US Drug Blacklist "Abusive and Interventionist"
* The Cartel of the Suns According to
Jackson Diehl
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. Deputy Editorial Page Editor of ''The Washington Post
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'', the Bolivarian government of Venezuela shelters "one of the world’s biggest drug cartels". There have also been allegations that former president Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republ ...
and Diosdado Cabello
Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born 15 April 1963Vicepresidencia de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela also drug lord of Venezuela
, atentamente alcardonDiosdado Cabello Rondón, accessed 19 April 2010) is a Venezuelan politician and current mem ...
being involved with drug trafficking.
In May 2015, ''The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'' reported from United States officials that drug trafficking in Venezuela increased significantly with Colombian drug traffickers moving from Colombia to Venezuela due to pressure from law enforcement. One United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United Stat ...
official described the higher ranks of the Venezuelan government and military as "a criminal organization", with high ranking Venezuelan officials, such as National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello
Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born 15 April 1963Vicepresidencia de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela also drug lord of Venezuela
, atentamente alcardonDiosdado Cabello Rondón, accessed 19 April 2010) is a Venezuelan politician and current mem ...
, being accused of drug trafficking. Those involved with investigations stated that Venezuelan government defectors and former traffickers had given information to investigators and that details of those involved in government drug trafficking were increasing.
Central America
Honduras
* Honduran drug cartels ** Matta organization ** CachirosEl Salvador
*Mara Salvatrucha
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Nicaragua
*Nicaragua
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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 foll ...
)''
**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 agricult ...
Asia
East Asia
Korea
* Korean criminal organizations ''(see alsoNorth Korea's illicit activities
The alleged illicit activities of the North Korean state include manufacture and sale of illegal drugs, the manufacture and sale of counterfeit consumer goods, human trafficking, arms trafficking, wildlife trafficking, counterfeiting currency ...
)''
Japan
= Japanese criminal organizations
= ''See also Kenji Doihara's criminal activities'' Theyakuza
, also known as , are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media, by request of the police, call them , while the ''yakuza'' call themselves . The English equivalent for the ter ...
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 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 * 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, ** Yon-daime Yamaken-gumi 四代目山健組 ** Ni-daime Kodo-kai 二代目弘道会 ** Ni-daime Takumi-gumi 二代目宅見組 ** Go-daime Kokusui-kai 五代目國粹会 *
Inagawa-kai
The is the third largest of Japan's yakuza groups, with approximately 3,100 members. It is based in the Kantō region, and was one of the first yakuza organizations to begin operating overseas.
History
The Inagawa-kai was founded in Atami, Sh ...
稲川会
* Sumiyoshi-kai
The , sometimes referred to as the , is the second-largest yakuza group in Japan with an estimated 4,000 members.
Outline
Their territories mainly consist of upscale districts such as Kabukichō and Ginza. Shops operating in these territories ...
住吉会
**Sumiyoshi-ikka
The Sumiyoshi-ikka (住吉一家 "Sumiyoshi Family") is an affiliate of the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza syndicate, based in Tokyo, Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated i ...
Shinwa-kai
The is a yakuza group based in Takamatsu, Kagawa on Shikoku, Japan.
住吉一家親和会
*** Kansuke Juni-daime 勘助十二代目
*Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi
The is a yakuza organization based in Hyogo, Japan.
Overview
The Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza organization includes Kobe-based Yamaken-gumi, Osaka-based Takumi-gumi, and Kyoyu-kai. They broke away from The Sixth Yamaguchi-gumi in 2015 and fo ...
*Matsuba-kai
The , meaning "Pine Needle Society," is a yakuza organization based in Tokyo, Japan. The Matsuba-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 360 active members as of 2020.
松葉会
* Kyokuto-kai 極東会
* Dojin-kai 道仁会
** Kitamura-gumi
* Yon-daime Kudo-kai 四代目工藤會
* Roku-daime Aizu-Kotetsu-kai 六代目会津小鉄会
* Okinawa Kyokuryu-kai 沖縄旭琉会
*Kyushu Seido-kai
The was a yakuza organization based in Fukuoka Prefecture on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 380 active members.
九州誠道会
* Go-daime Kyosei-kai 五代目共政会
* San-daime Fukuhaku-kai 三代目福博会
*Soai-kai
The is a yakuza organization based in Chiba, Japan. The Soai-kai is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 120 active members.
History
The Soai-kai was formed in 1945 by Toramatsu Takahashi, then a member of a Yokohama-based bakuto group ...
双愛会
* Yon-daime Kyokuryu-kai 四代目旭琉会
* San-daime Kyodo-kai 三代目俠道会
* Taishu-kai 太州会
* Shichi-daime Goda-ikka 七代目合田一家
*Toa-kai
The is a yakuza syndicate based in Tokyo with a predominantly Zainichi Korean membership. Originally named the , with its historic leader Hisayuki Machii, the Toa-kai was deeply involved in the history of Tokyo's South Korean community and Ja ...
東亜会
* Ni-daime Azuma-gumi 二代目東組
* Yon-daime Asano-gumi 四代目浅野組
* Hachi-daime Sakaume-gumi 八代目酒梅組
* Yon-daime Kozakura-ikka 四代目小桜一家
* Ni-daime Shinwa-kai 二代目親和会
Defunct yakuza groups *
Kantō-kai
The was a Japanese underworld organization formed by Yoshio Kodama in 1964, and named for the Kantō region from which it drew most of its membership. Kodama envisioned the Kantō-kai as a secret national police force, with the aim of forwarding ...
関東会
* Ni-daime Honda-kai 二代目本多会
*Yamaguchi-gumi
is Japan's largest '' yakuza'' organization. It is named after its founder Harukichi Yamaguchi. Its origins can be traced back to a loose labor union for dockworkers in Kobe before World War II.
It is one of the largest criminal organizations i ...
** Goto-gumi 後藤組
** Suishin-kai 水心会
*Ichiwa-kai
The Ichiwa-kai (一和会) was a yakuza gang based in Osaka, Japan.
It was formed on June 13, 1984 when Hiroshi Yamamoto, a top lieutenant in the Yamaguchi-gumi, broke from that gang to form his own organization with over 10,000 members. The ...
一和会
* San-daime Yamano-kai 三代目山野会
*Nakano-kai
The Nakano-kai (中野会) was a notorious Osaka-based yakuza gang, founded by Taro Nakano (born October 30, 1936 in Oita) in the years after World War 2. The Nakano-kai was known for its fierce bellicosity and thus sometimes dubbed the "Dojin-k ...
中野会
*Kyokuto Sakurai-soke-rengokai
The is a now-defunct yakuza gang formerly based in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan. It was an organization of the tekiya.
It was designated by the Japanese police as a boryokudan group in July, 1993. It disbanded in November 2004, and its boryokudan ...
極東桜井總家連合会
East Asia
The Triads is a popular name for a number of Chinese criminal secret societies, which have existed in various forms over the centuries (see for exampleTiandihui
The Tiandihui, the Heaven and Earth Society, also called Hongmen (the Vast Family), is a Chinese fraternal organization and historically a secretive folk religious sect in the vein of the Ming loyalist White Lotus Sect, the Tiandihui's ...
). 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.
* Hong Kong-based Triads
** 14K Group 十四K
** Wo Group
Wo Shing Wo or WSW () is the oldest of the Wo Group triad societies, and is the triad with the longest history in Hong Kong. According to the Hong Kong police, the triad is involved in extortion, drug trafficking, gambling and prostitution.
和字頭
*** Wo Shing Wo
Wo Shing Wo or WSW () is the oldest of the Wo Group triad societies, and is the triad with the longest history in Hong Kong. According to the Hong Kong police, the triad is involved in extortion, drug trafficking, gambling and prostitution.
和勝和
*** Wo On Lok (Shui Fong) 和安樂(水房)
*** Wo Hop To 和合圖(老和)
** Sun Yee On 新義安(老新)
** Luen Group 聯字頭
** Big Circle Gang
The Big Circle Gang is a Chinese triad which was established in Hong Kong in the 1970's. They were given the moniker "Big Circle Gang" and were formed by former members of the Red Guards, a paramilitary organization established by Mao Zedong d ...
大圈
* Sio Sam Ong (小三王)
* Chinese-American gangs ''(See also Tongs
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The first pair of tongs belongs to the Egyptians. Tongs likely started off as ...
)''
** Wah Ching 華青
** Ping On
** Black Dragons 黑龍
** Jackson Street Boys 積臣街小子
*Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...
-based Triads
** United Bamboo Gang 竹聯幫
** Four Seas Gang 四海幫
** Celestial Alliance
* Mainland Chinese crime groups ''(see also Hanlong Group)''
** Chongqing group 重慶組
** Defunct
*** Honghuzi gangs
*** Green Gang
The Green Gang () was a Chinese secret society and criminal organization, which was prominent in criminal, social and political activity in Shanghai during the early to mid 20th century.
History
Origins
As a secret society, the origins and hist ...
青帮
*Triad
Triad or triade may refer to:
* a group of three
Businesses and organisations
* Triad (American fraternities), certain historic groupings of seminal college fraternities in North America
* Triad (organized crime), a Chinese transnational orga ...
s in Cholon
**Wu Bang
Southeast 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)''
*** 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
The Red Wa is the most powerful organized crime gang in Thailand. The Red Wa come from Burma and they are associated with the United Wa State Army. They are composed of people from the Wa ethnic group and they work together with Chinese organiz ...
''(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)''
*** 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 t ...
)''
*Chao pho ''Jao por'' ( Thai: เจ้าพ่อ, “godfather”) is a term used in Thailand to describe Thai organized crime groups.
Meaning of the term
''Chao pho'' or ''jao poh'' literally means “godfather.” Chao pho, mostly based in the province ...
**Red Wa
The Red Wa is the most powerful organized crime gang in Thailand. The Red Wa come from Burma and they are associated with the United Wa State Army. They are composed of people from the Wa ethnic group and they work together with Chinese organiz ...
* Filipino crime gangs ''(See also Abu Sayyaf
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and New People's Army
The New People's Army ( fil, Bagong Hukbong Bayan), abbreviated NPA or BHB, is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), based primarily in the Philippine countryside. It acts as the CPP's principal organization, aim ...
)''
***Kuratong Baleleng
Kuratong Baleleng was an organized crime syndicate in the Philippines that once was an anti-communist, vigilante group. Once the largest syndicate in the country, they received nationwide attention due to their alleged end in a shootout with th ...
***Waray-Waray gangs
Waray-Waray gangs (also known as Waray-Waray groups) are generic terms used in the Philippines to denote of criminal groups who are of Waray ethnicity. They originated from provinces Leyte and Samar where the majority are of Waray background, ...
October 10, 2018
***Bahala Na Gang
The Bahala Na Gang (BNG) is a street gang founded in the Philippines which subsequently spread to the United States.
Early history
The Bahala Na Gang was established in the early 1940s in Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines, by Divino Talastas, a na ...
***Sigue Sigue Sputnik
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The band's music, image and in ...
*** Defunct
**** Putik gang
* Cambodian crime gangs
**Teng Bunma
Teng Bunma ( km, ថេង ប៊ុនម៉ា; 1941 – 17 June 2016), also written as Teng Boonma, Theng Boonma, and Theng Bunma, was one of the wealthiest businessmen in Cambodia. He was one the founders of Thai Boon Roong Group and, along ...
organization
* Malaysian crime gangs
** Mamak Gang
* Secret societies in Singapore
Secret societies in Singapore have been largely eradicated as a security issue in the city-state. However many smaller groups remain today which attempt to mimic societies of the past. The membership of these societies is largely adolescent.
De ...
** Ang Soon Tong昂很快塘
** Ghee Hin Kongsi 酥油軒懸空寺
** Hai San 海新
**Wah Kee
Wah Kee (华记) is a secret society based in Malaysia and Singapore since the nineteenth century.
According to the History of Wah Kee, Wah Kee (华记) was created in Singapore by Su Guanghua (苏广华). His associate Zhao Guangheng (赵 ...
華記
** Ah Kong 新加坡黑手黨
Vietnamese Xã Hội Đen
*Bình Xuyên
Binh Xuyen Force ( vi, Bộ đội Bình Xuyên, ), often linked to its infamous leader, General Lê Văn Viễn (a.k.a. "Bảy Viễn"), was an independent military force within the Vietnamese National Army whose leaders once had lived outside ...
* Đại Cathay's mafia during the 60s
*Năm Cam
Trương Văn Cam, known by the sobriquet Năm Cam (April 22, 1947 – June 3, 2004) was a notorious Vietnamese mobster who is often called the "Godfather" of Vietnam. Known for building and running a criminal enterprise revolving around ga ...
's mafia of the 90s
*Khánh Trắng
Khánh Trắng (literally translated as "White Khanh") was the President of Dong Xuan Labor Union. However, it was just a screen for his mafia-like organization in the underworld of Hanoi during the late 1990s. Described as a cold-blooded assassin ...
's "Đồng Xuân Labor Union", a crime syndicate under the guise of a legal entity
*Dung Hà
Vũ Thị Hoàng Dung (better known by her nickname Dung Hà; 1965October 2, 2000) was a Vietnamese female gangster. Born and raised in Haiphong, Dung Hà was a high-ranking criminal member in the city, and during her peak in the 1990s, she and ...
's gang
*Vũ Xuân Trường's gang: a crime syndicate led by Vũ Xuân Trường, a government official and also a drug lord.
South Asia
*Indian mafia
Organised crime in India refers to organised crime elements originating in India and active in many parts of the world. The purpose of organised crime in India, as elsewhere in the world, is monetary gain. Its virulent form in modern times is d ...
''(See also Insurgency in Northeast India
The Insurgency in Northeast India involves multiple armed separatist factions operating in some of India's Northeast India, northeastern states, which are connected to the rest of India by the Siliguri Corridor, a strip of land as narrow as ...
)''
**Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...
*** D-Company डी कंपनी
*** Chhota Rajan gang राजन गिरोह
*** Gawli gang गवली गिरोह
*** Bada Rajan gang
*** Surve gang
*** Mudaliar gang
*** Mastan gang
*** Budesh gang
*** Kalani gang
** Pathan mafia
*** Lala gang
**Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 195 ...
*** Ansari gang
*** Yadav gang
**Bangalore
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...
*** Rai gang
*** Ramachandra gang
*** Jayaraj gang
**Kala Kaccha Gang
Kala Kachcha gang (also known as Kale-Kachchewale or Kale Kachche gang) refers to certain organized criminal gangs in Punjab, India. The Kala Kachcha gang members are robbers and dacoits, who don police uniform or 'Kale Kachche' (black underpa ...
** Chaddi Baniyan Gang
* Sri Lankan criminal groups
* Pakistani mafia ''(See also Peoples' Aman Committee, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
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, Muttahida Qaumi Movement and ISI involvement with drugs)''
**Chotu gang
Chotu gang was a Pakistani gang that engaged in kidnapping, murder and other criminal activities led by Ghulam Rasool who goes by the alias, "Chotu." The gang was based in the Kacha area of Rajanpur. This gang was involved in many crimes in are ...
** Lyari Gang
*Mafia Raj
''Mafia Raj'' is a term for a criminalized nexus (or "mafia") of government officials, elected politicians, business interests and other entities (such as law-enforcement authorities, non-governmental organisations, trade unions or criminal org ...
*Dacoit
Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in the Indian subcontinent. The spelling is the anglicised version of the Hindi word ''daaku''; "dacoit" is a colloquial Indian English word with this meaning and it appears in the ''Glossary of Colloquial ...
gangs
** Singh gang
**Veerappan
Koose Munisamy Veerappan (18 January 1952 – 18 October 2004) was an Indian bandit turned domestic terrorist who was active for 36 years, and kidnapped major politicians for ransom. He was charged with sandalwood smuggling and poaching o ...
gang
** Devi gang
Middle East
* Israeli mafia ''(see also Stern Gang)'' ** Abergil Crime Family משפחת הפשע אברג'יל ** Alperon crime family משפחת הפשע אלפרון **Zeev Rosenstein
Zeev Rosenstein ( he, זאב רוזנשטיין; born 1954) is an infamous Israeli drug trafficker.
Rosenstein was born in Jaffa to immigrant parents, a Romanian Jewish father and a Mountain Jewish mother. He never completed high school, and in ...
organization ארגון זאב רוזנשטיין
** Palestinian organized crime ''(See also Abu Nidal Organization
The Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) is the most common name for the Palestinian nationalist militant group Fatah – The Revolutionary Council (''Fatah al-Majles al-Thawry''). The ANO is named after its founder Abu Nidal. It was created by a spli ...
)''
***Doghmush The Doghmush ( ar, دغمش, pronounced "Doe-moosh" or "Durmush", ''see spelling'') are a Palestinian family from the Gaza Strip.
Johnston kidnapping
The family became known internationally in 2007 as they proclaimed themselves as the ''Jaysh al-Is ...
clan
* Turkish mafia
** Crime groups in Turkey ''(see also Deep state and Yüksekova Gang)''
*** Kılıç gang
*** Çakıcı gang
*** Yaprak Family
*** Topal organisation
*** Söylemez Gang
**Kurdish clans ''(see also Kurdistan Workers' Party#Involvement in drug trafficking)''
*** Baybaşin clan
*** Cantürk crime family
**Turkish organised crime in Great Britain {{Unreferenced, date=July 2022
Turkish organised crime in Great Britain has been prevalent in the country since the early 90s when the Arifs controlled London's underworld for a brief time. Since the fall of the Taliban during the 2001 invasion of ...
*** Arifs
** Turkish organised crime in Germany
*** Arabacı clan
** İmaç clan (Netherlands)
* Iranian organized crime ''(see also Jundallah and illegal activities of the IRGC
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...
)''
** Tahvili crime family
*Lebanese mafia
Lebanese mafia is a colloquial term for organized crime groups which origin from Lebanon and Levant. Lebanese organized crime is active in the country of Lebanon itself, as well as in countries and areas with a large Arab community, most notably ...
''(See also Lebanese Civil War militias)''
**Arab crime clans
***Miri-Clan
The Miri Family is an Lebanese Arab criminal organisation based in Europe. The clan consists of over 30 extended families who arrived in Germany in the 1980s as refugees from Lebanon. They are particularly prominent in Bremen, where they have ar ...
***Al-Zein Clan
The Al-Zein-Family (also known as the Al-Zein-clan) is an Arab-Lebanese mafia-family based in Europe. They have 3000 members in Germany.
Members of the family in Germany and Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United ...
** Ibrahim clan
Afghanistan
* Golden Crescent ** Afridi Network ** Afghan drug cartelsGlenny, Misha (2009) ''McMafia'', Vintage Books, ''(see alsoTaliban
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
Central Asia
* Uzbek mafia ''(See alsoIslamic Movement of Uzbekistan
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU; uz, Ўзбекистон исломий ҳаракати/Oʻzbekiston islomiy harakati; russian: Исламское движение Узбекистана ) was a militant Islamist group formed in 1998 ...
)''
** Rakhimov organization
* Kyrgyz mafia
** Erkinbayev group
** Akmatbayev group
** Kolbayev group
Eurasia
Russia
Although organized crime existed in the Soviet era, the gangs really gained in power and international reach during the transition to capitalism. The termRussian Mafia
Russian organized crime or Russian mafia (, ), otherwise known as Bratva (), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union. The initialism OPG is Organized Criminal (''prestupnaya'' in Russian) ...
, '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
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nati ...
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.
* Russian-Jewish mafia
**Brighton Beach
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*** Agron gang
*** Nayfeld gang
*** Balagula gang
** Mogilevich organization
*Brothers' Circle
The Brothers' Circle or Bratski Krug ( rus, Братский круг) is a term used to refer to Russian organized crime, commonly the Russian mafia. It is a loose translation of the Russian term "Bratva" (Russian: Братва), which can also be ...
(Existence is debatable)
*Russian mafia
Russian organized crime or Russian mafia (, ), otherwise known as Bratva (), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union. The initialism OPG is Organized Criminal (''prestupnaya'' in Russian) ...
''(See also Lubyanka Criminal Group, Three Whales Corruption Scandal and Sergei Magnitsky
Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky (russian: Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский, ; 8 April 1972 – 16 November 2009) was a Ukrainian-born Russian tax advisor responsible for exposing corruption and misconduct by Russian gover ...
)''
**Moscow
***Izmaylovskaya gang
Russian organized crime or Russian mafia (, ), otherwise known as Bratva (), is a collective of various organized crime elements originating in the former Soviet Union. The initialism OPG is Organized Criminal (''prestupnaya'' in Russian) Gr ...
***Solntsevskaya bratva
The Solntsevskaya Organized Crime Group (russian: Солнцевская организованная преступная группировка), also known as the Solntsevskaya Bratva (russian: link=no, Солнцевская братва), is a ...
Varese, Frederico (2005) ''The Russian mafia: private protection in a new market economy'', Oxford University Press,
****New York branch
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*** Orekhovskaya gang
**St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
'' (See also Baltik-Eskort)''
*** Tambov Gang
** Togliatti mafia
**Uralmash gang
The Uralmash gang (russian: Уралмашевская группировка) was a Russian mafia crime syndicate based in the city of Yekaterinburg.
Founded in the late 1980s by a group of former athletes led by the Tsyganov brothers, the grou ...
** Lazovsky gang
** Vladivostok gang
** Kurganskaya group
** Tsapok gang
** 'Elephants' group
** Kazan gang
Caucasus
''See alsoCaucasus Emirate
The Caucasus Emirate ( ce, Имарат Кавказ, Imarat Kavkaz, IK; russian: Кавказский эмират, Kavkazskiy emirat), also known as the Caucasian Emirate, Emirate of Caucasus, or Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, was a Jihadist ...
''
*Georgian mafia
The Georgian mafia ( ka, ქართული მაფია, tr) is regarded as one of the biggest, most powerful and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the largest number of "thieves in law" in all former USSR countries ...
''(See also Mkhedrioni
The Mkhedrioni was a paramilitary group in the Republic of Georgia, known for its high-profile involvement in the Georgian Civil War and the War in Abkhazia. It was outlawed since 1995 but subsequently reconstituted as the Union of Patriots p ...
and Forest Brothers
The Guerrilla war in the Baltic states was an armed struggle which was waged by the Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian partisans, called the Forest Brothers (also: the "Brothers of the Wood" and the "Forest Friars"; et, metsavennad, lv, mež ...
)''
** Kutaisi clan
** Tbilisi clan
** 21st Century Association
*Armenian mafia
The Armenian mafia ( hy, Հայկական մաֆիա) is a general term for organized criminal gangs that consist of ethnic Armenians. In Armenia, the structure is organized in clans called ''akhperutyuns'' (եղբայրություններ, brot ...
CBS News/Associated Press - Armenian Organized Crime Grows More Complex/ref> ** Mirzoyan-Terdjanian organization ** Armenian Power *
Azeri mafia
The Azerbaijani mafia is a general term for organized criminal gangs, mostly based in Moscow and other major Russia cities like Saint Petersburg, that consist of ethnic Azerbaijanis. Outside of Russia they are active in most former Soviet state ...
** Janiev organization
* Chechen mafia ''(See also Special Purpose Islamic Regiment and Kadyrovtsy)''
** Obschina
** Labazanov gang
Europe
Sweden
* 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 Lord ...
* Uppsalamaffian
* Chosen Ones
*Werewolf Legion
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*Asir
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* Vårvädersligan
Netherlands
*Organized crime in the Netherlands
Organized crime in the Netherlands, sometimes called penose (Dutch: ''penoze'') is the organised criminal underbelly in Amsterdam and other major cities. Penose usually means the organizations formed by criminals of Dutch descent. It is a slan ...
** Bruinsma drug gang
** Holleeder gang
** Moroccan mafia
France
* French Milieu ''(See also Service d'Action Civique)'' ** Corsican mafiaGayraud, Jean-François (2009) ''Showbiz, people et corruption'', Odile Jacob, ''(see also National Liberation Front of Corsica)'' *** Unione Corse *** Brise de Mer gang ** Les Caïds Des Cités *** Faïd gang *** The Barbarians ** Wigs gang ** North African Brigade ''(see alsoCarlingue
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
** 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 ...
Greece
* Greek mafiaIreland
*Ireland **Dublin
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*** Cahill gangNewton, Michael (2007) ''Gangsters Encyclopedia'', Anova Books,
*** Gilligan gang
*** Foley gang
*** Hyland gang
*** Dunne 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 neigh ...
**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 2 ...
***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 i ...
***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 Organised Crime Group
The Kinahan Organised Crime Group (KOCG), also known as the Kinahan Cartel, is a major Irish transnational organised crime syndicate alleged to be the most powerful in Ireland and one of the largest organised crime groups in the world. It is als ...
Spain
*Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = '' Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, ...
''(see also ETA
Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...
)''
**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 G ...
**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
*** El Clan De La Paca
Poland
*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 populou ...
''(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
**Wołomin mafia
Wołomin is the main town of Wołomin County situated in the Masovian Voivodship. Wołomin is situated approximately east of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, near the railway to Białystok. It has approximately 36,000 inhabitants and covers a ...
Slovakia
*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 boundari ...
** Hungaro-Slovak mafia
Hungary
* Raffael clan * Sztojka clanCzech Republic
** Mrázek organization ** Krejčíř organizationItaly
*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 ...
**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 ...
**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 ...
***''See also 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.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 ...
***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 American ...
***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 not ...
***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 ...
***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 A ...
*'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 ...
*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 ...
**''See also 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 Honoured Society (
(Swedish) (Sweden) ** K-Falangen (Sweden) * Bosnian mafia ** Prazina gangSiegel, Dina (2003) ''Global organized crime: trends and developments'', Springer, ** Bajramović gang ** Delalić gang ** M-Falangen (Sweden) * Bulgarian mafia ''(see also Multigroup)'' ** VIS ** SIC ** Karamanski gang ** TIM ** Naglite ** Rashkov clan * Serbian mafia ** Arkan clan ** Zemun Clan **
PBS. 2006. Frontline: Drug Wars.
*
Worldpress.org. 2006. "Mexico: Drug Cartels a Growing Threat." Worldpress.org.
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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 metro ...
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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 coast, and belongs to the '' locale'' of that town, particularly very active in dru ...
**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 ...
**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. ...
**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 Regg ...
**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 th ...
**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 Itali ...
**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
** Siderno Group
*Roberto Saviano (2006) ''Gomorrah: Italy's Other Mafia'', Mondadori, .
** Secondigliano Alliance
***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 ...
***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 ...
***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 ...
*** Mallardo clan
**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, ...
**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
**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
**Polverino clan
The Polverino clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the town of Marano di Napoli. The clan is present also in Villaricca, Quarto, Pozzuoli, Qualiano and in the district Camaldoli of Naples (place of origin of the Polverino family). Outside ...
**Rinaldi clan
The Rinaldi clan is a Camorra clan operating in the area of San Giovanni a Teduccio, in the eastern area of the city of Naples. Since 2019 the clan has formed an alliance with the Ponticelli's De Luca Bossa clan, and Barra's Aprea-Cuccaro clan ...
**De Luca Bossa clan
The De Luca Bossa clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the eastern suburbs of Naples, and more specifically in the area of Ponticelli and in municipality of Cercola.
History
The clan was founded by Antonio De Luca Bossa, known as '' ...
**Aprea-Cuccaro clan
The Aprea-Cuccaro clan is a Camorra clan operating in the area of Barra, in the city of Naples.
History
Giovanni Aprea, known as e curtiello'', a leading figure of the clan, began the criminal career working for Ciro Sarno, then a powerful b ...
**Cesarano clan
The Cesarano clan is a Camorra clan from the town of Castellammare di Stabia, in the Metropolitan City of Naples.
History
The founder and important figure of the clan was Ferdinando Cesarano (born August 26, 1954), aka "Nanduccio 'e Ponte Persi ...
** Puca 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.
O ...
*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 which ...
* Stidda
* Mala del Brenta
*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 dell ...
* Mafia Capitale
*Sinti
The Sinti (also ''Sinta'' or ''Sinte''; masc. sing. ''Sinto''; fem. sing. ''Sintesa'') are a subgroup of Romani people mostly found in Germany and Central Europe that number around 200,000 people. They were traditionally itinerant, but today o ...
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 ...
*Clan Spada di Ostia
* 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 ...
** Turatello crew
Balkans
Balkan organized crime gained prominence in the chaos following the communist era, notably the transition to capitalism and the wars in former Yugoslavia. *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 ...
** Kosovan mafia
**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 share ...
*** Gang of Çole
*** Gang of Gaxhai
*** Gang of Pusi i Mezinit
***Lazarat
Lazarat ( sq-definite, Lazarati) is a village in Gjirokastër County, in southern Albania. It is located in the Dropull valley. Formerly functioning as a municipality, as part of the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the muni ...
marijuana growers
** Rudaj Organization (New York City)
** Gang of Ismail Lika
** Dobroshi gang (International)
** NaserliganDagens Nyheter - Ligorna har kopplat greppet om Sverige(Swedish) (Sweden) ** K-Falangen (Sweden) * Bosnian mafia ** Prazina gangSiegel, Dina (2003) ''Global organized crime: trends and developments'', Springer, ** Bajramović gang ** Delalić gang ** M-Falangen (Sweden) * Bulgarian mafia ''(see also Multigroup)'' ** VIS ** SIC ** Karamanski gang ** TIM ** Naglite ** Rashkov clan * Serbian mafia ** Arkan clan ** Zemun Clan **
Joca Amsterdam Joca may refer to:
Footballers
* Joca (footballer, born 1981), full name Ricardo Jorge da Silva Pinto Pereira, Portuguese former football midfielder
* Joca (footballer, born 1995), full name João Carlos Almeida Leandro, Portuguese football defende ...
gang
** Magaš clan
** Giška gang
** Pink Panthers
**Serb mafia in Scandinavia
The Serbian mafia in Scandinavia, also known as "Juggemaffian" ("Yugo Mafia") is an organized crime group in Sweden and Denmark. The foundations of the gang began during the mass immigration of Yugoslav guest-workers to Sweden in the 1970s. Its p ...
*** Kotur mob
*** Yugoslav Brotherhood
* Montenegrin mafia ''(see also allegations of Milo Đukanović's involvement in cigarette smuggling)''
* Macedonian mafia
** Frankfurt mafia
**Bajrush klan
**Nezim klan'
* Romanian mafia
** Băhăian organisation
Great Britain
*London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 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 dow ...
** Adams crime family
** The Richardson GangMorton, James ''Gangland Volume 2: The Underworld in Britain and Ireland'', 1995,
**Kray Twins, The Firm
**Bernie Silver, The Syndicate
**Jack Comer, Comer gang
**Lee Murray, Buttmarsh Boys
**Interwar unemployment and poverty in the United Kingdom, Interwar era mobs
***Messina Brothers
***Sabini syndicateThomas, Donald (2006) ''Villains' paradise: a history of Britain's underworld'', Pegasus Books,
***Hoxton Gang
***Elephant and Castle Mob
***Birmingham Boys
*Rettendon murders, Essex Boys
*Gun crime in south Manchester, Manchester
**Quality Street Gang
**Desmond Noonan, Noonan firm
**Cheetham Hillbillies
**The Gooch Close Gang
*Crime in Liverpool, Liverpool
**Curtis Warren, Curtis Warren's drug empire
**Whitney gang
*Aggi Crew
*British firms (organized crime)#Glasgow crime families, Glasgow
**Thomas McGraw, McGraw firm
**Arthur Thompson (gangster), Thompson firm
**Walter Douglas, Delta Crime Syndicate
*Brighton razor gangs
*Bestwood Estate#Recent years, Bestwood Cartel
Ukraine
*Ukrainian mafia **Akhat Bragin, Donetsk Clan **Sergey Aksyonov#Alleged links to organized crime, Salem gangLithuania
*Foreign relations of Lithuania#Illicit drug trafficking, Lithuanian mafia **Boris Dekanidze, Vilnius BrigadeEstonia
*Estonian mafia/Obtshak **Toomas Helin, Linnuvabriku groupTransnistria
*Mafia state#Transnistria, Transnistrian mafiaAustralia
*Crime in Sydney, Sydney **5T (gang), 5T gangSmall, Clive & Gilling, Tom (2010) ''Smack Express: How Organized Crime Got Hooked on Drugs'', Allen & Unwin, (1985–1999) **George Freeman (bookmaker), Freeman gang (defunct) **Lenny McPherson, Lenny's gang (1960s) **Abe Saffron, Mr Sin's gang **Razor gangs (1920s) *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 **Salvator cartelReferences
Further reading
*PBS. 2006. Frontline: Drug Wars.
*
External links
*Worldpress.org. 2006. "Mexico: Drug Cartels a Growing Threat." Worldpress.org.
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