Drug cartel, the Glossary
A drug cartel is a criminal organization composed of independent drug lords who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade.[1]
Table of Contents
729 relations: 'Ndrangheta, Abe Saffron, Abergil Organization, Abner Zwillman, Abu Nidal Organization, Abu Sayyaf, Accountant, African-American organized crime, Aggi Crew, Ah Kong, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Aizukotetsu-kai, Al Indelicato, Al-Zein crime family, Alaettin Çakıcı, Albanian mafia, Alema Leota, Alexander Solonik, Alexandre Villaplane, Ali Budesh, American Mafia, Amigos dos Amigos, Ang Soon Tong, Angiulo brothers, Anthony J. Biase, Anthony Spilotro, Aprea-Cuccaro clan, Arifs (gang), Arkan, Armenian mafia, Armenian Power, Arnold Rothstein, Arthur Thompson (gangster), Arun Gawli, Asano-gumi, Aslan Usoyan, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Augusto La Torre, Ayub Afridi (drug lord), Azerbaijani mafia, Azuma-gumi, Ömer Lütfü Topal, Đại Cathay, Đorđe Božović, Ōmuta murders, Bacon Brothers (gangsters), Bada Rajan, Bahala Na Gang, Baltimore Crew, Bamboo Union, ... Expand index (679 more) »
- Drug cartels
- Illegal drug trade
- Organized crime groups
- Organized crime terminology
'Ndrangheta
The 'Ndrangheta is an Italian Mafia-type association, Disegno di legge, Senato della Repubblica, 20 May 2010 based in the peninsular region of Calabria and dating back to the 19th century. Drug cartel and 'Ndrangheta are transnational organized crime.
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Abe Saffron
Abraham Gilbert Saffron (6 October 1919 – 15 September 2006) was an Australian hotelier, nightclub owner, and property developer who was one of the major figures in organised crime in Australia in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Abergil Organization
The Abergil Organization is an Israeli organized crime syndicate that has been active since the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Abner Zwillman
Abner "Longie" Zwillman (July 27, 1904 – February 26, 1959) was a Jewish-American mobster who was based primarily in North Jersey.
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Abu Nidal Organization
The Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), officially Fatah – Revolutionary Council, was a Palestinian militant group founded by Abu Nidal in 1974.
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Abu Sayyaf
Abu Sayyaf (جماعة أبو سياف;, ASG), officially known by the Islamic State as the Islamic State – East Asia Province, is a Jihadist militant and pirate group that followed the Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam.
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Accountant
An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy.
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African-American organized crime
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African American organized crime emerged following the first and second large-scale migration of African Americans from the Southern United States to major cities of the Northeast, Midwest, and later the West Coast.
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Aggi Crew
The Aggi Crew were a criminal drug gang based in the St Paul's district of Bristol.
Ah Kong
Ah Kong was an organised crime and drugs syndicate that used to extensively control the European heroin trade in the 1970s to 1990s. Drug cartel and ah Kong are transnational organized crime.
Ahmed Wali Karzai
Ahmed Wali Karzai (احمد ولي کرزی,, 1961 – 12 July 2011) was an Afghan politician who served as Chairman of the Kandahar Provincial Council from 2005 until his death.
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Aizukotetsu-kai
The (sometimes written Aizu-Kotetsukai or Aizu Kotetsu-kai) is a yakuza organization in Japan based in Kyoto.
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Al Indelicato
Alphonse "Al" Indelicato (February 25, 1931 – May 5, 1981), also known as Sonny Red, was an American mobster and caporegime in the Bonanno crime family who was murdered with Dominick Trinchera and Philip Giaccone for planning to overthrow Bonanno boss Philip Rastelli.
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Al-Zein crime family
The Al-Zein crime family (az-Zayn; also known as the Al-Zein Clan) is a prominent Lebanese mafia organization primarily based in Germany.
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Alaettin Çakıcı
Alaettin Çakıcı (born 20 January 1953) is a former member of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves in Turkey, and one of the leading figures of the Turkish mafia.
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Albanian mafia
Albanian mafia or Albanian organized crime (Mafia Shqiptare) are the general terms used for criminal organizations based in Albania or composed of ethnic Albanians. Drug cartel and Albanian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Alema Leota
Alema Leota (March 10, 1928 – May 11, 2008) was an alleged Hawaiian organized crime boss of Samoan descent during the 1960s and 1970s who led an unsuccessful nonpartisan campaign for the Governor of Hawaii during the 1978 election.
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Alexander Solonik
Alexander Viktorovich Solonik (Алекса́ндр Ви́кторович Соло́ник; 16 October 1960 – 31 January 1997) was a Russian gangster, known for his reputation as a notorious hitman in the Russian criminal underworld.
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Alexandre Villaplane
Alexandre Villaplane (24 December 1904 – 27 December 1944) was a French football player who played as a midfielder.
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Ali Budesh
Ali Baba Budesh (born 1957-14 April 2022) - 29 October 2009, Mid Day was a notorious Indian extortionist and underworld mobster, based in Bahrain.
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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.
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Amigos dos Amigos
Amigos dos Amigos (ADA, Friends of Friends) is a criminal organization that operates in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Ang Soon Tong
Ang Soon Tong is a secret society based in Singapore and Malaysia.
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Angiulo brothers
The Angiulo brothers, were the leading Italian-American crime group from Boston's North End, from the 1960s until the mid 1980s.
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Anthony J. Biase
Anthony Joseph Biase (September 6, 1909 – September 21, 1991) was an American mobster who had a long career in gambling and narcotics, and was a caporegime of the Civella crime family's Omaha, Nebraska faction.
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Anthony Spilotro
Anthony John Spilotro (May 19, 1938 – June 14, 1986), nicknamed "Tony the Ant", was an American mobster and high-ranking member of the Chicago Outfit who operated in Las Vegas during the 1970s and '80s.
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Aprea-Cuccaro clan
The Aprea-Cuccaro clan is a Camorra clan operating in the area of Barra, in the city of Naples.
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Arifs (gang)
The Arifs are a south-east London-based Turkish criminal organization heavily involved in armed robbery, drug trafficking and other racketeering-related activities within London's underworld since the late 1960s.
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Arkan
Željko Ražnatović (17 April 1952 – 15 January 2000), better known as Arkan, was a Serbian mobster and head of the Serb paramilitary force called the Serb Volunteer Guard during the Yugoslav Wars.
Armenian mafia
The Armenian mafia (Հայկական մաֆիա) is a general term for organized criminal gangs that consist of ethnic Armenians. Drug cartel and Armenian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Armenian Power
Armenian Power 13, also known as AP, the Armenian Mob, or Armenian Mafia is an Armenian criminal organization and street gang founded and currently based in Los Angeles County, California.
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Arnold Rothstein
Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 6, 1928), nicknamed "The Brain", was an American racketeer, crime boss, businessman, and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish Mob in New York City.
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Arthur Thompson (gangster)
Arthur Thompson (September 1931 – 13 March 1993) was a Scottish gangster who was active in Glasgow from the 1950s and took charge of organised crime in the city for over thirty years.
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Arun Gawli
Arun Gulab Gawli (born 17 July 1955) also known as Arun Gulab Ahir, is an Indian politician, underworld don and retired gangster.
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Asano-gumi
The is a yakuza group based in Okayama, Japan.
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Aslan Usoyan
Aslan Usoyan (ასლან უსოიანი, Асла́н Раши́дович Усоя́н; 27 February 1937 – 16 January 2013), also known as Baba Gurgur and Grandpa Hassan ("Дед Хасан" Ded Hasan) or just Grandpa ("Дедушка"), was a mafia boss, an ethnic Yezidi-Kurdish mobster and thief in law, who began his career operating in Georgia and Kurdistan, continued in Moscow, Ural, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Krasnodar, Sochi, and other parts of the former Soviet Union.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Augusto La Torre
Augusto La Torre (Mondragone, Province of Caserta, September 24, 1962) is an Italian criminal and former Camorra boss.
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Ayub Afridi (drug lord)
Ayub Afridi (ایوب اپریدی,; – 24, November 2009) was a Pakistani drug smuggler and tribal politician.
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Azerbaijani mafia
The Azerbaijani mafia is a general term for organized criminal gangs that consist of ethnic Azerbaijanis. Drug cartel and Azerbaijani mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Azuma-gumi
The is a yakuza organization based in Osaka, Japan.
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Ömer Lütfü Topal
Ömer Lütfü Topal, sometimes spelled Lütfi (1942 – July 28, 1996), was a Turkish businessman, who was deeply involved in the Susurluk scandal.
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Đại Cathay
Đại Cathay, whose real name was Lê Văn Đại, was a 1960s Saigon mobster, and was considered as the top of the "four great kings" of Saigon's criminal underworld before 1975, followed by Huỳnh Tỳ, Ngô Văn Cái and Ba Thế.
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Đorđe Božović
Đorđe "Giška" Božović (Ђорђе Гишка Божовић; 16 September 1955 – 15 September 1991) was a Serbian criminal and paramilitary commander during the Yugoslav Wars.
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Ōmuta murders
The were committed by four members of the, a yakuza gang based in Omuta, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Bacon Brothers (gangsters)
The Bacon Brothers, Jonathan, Jarrod, and Jamie, are a trio of gangsters from Abbotsford, British Columbia who are suspected of multiple firearms and drug trafficking charges and implicated in a rash of homicides that took place in the Fraser Valley and Greater Vancouver area.
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Bada Rajan
Rajan Mahadevan Nair – 2 November 2003, Express India (1952 21 September 1983), popularly known in the Mumbai underworld by his moniker Bada Rajan (literally Elder Rajan), was an Indian mobster and underworld don from Mumbai.
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Bahala Na Gang
The Bahala Na Gang (BNG) is a street gang founded in the Philippines which subsequently spread to the United States.
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Baltimore Crew
The Baltimore Crew was an Italian American organized crime group that ultimately became a faction of the Gambino crime family operating in the port city of Baltimore, Maryland, from about 1900 until the 1990s.
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Bamboo Union
The United Bamboo Gang (UBG), also known as the Bamboo Union, is the largest of Taiwan's three main criminal Triads.
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Banda della Comasina
La Banda della Comasina ("Gang of 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.
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Banda della Magliana
The Banda della Magliana (the "Magliana Gang") was an Italian criminal organization based in Rome.
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Bangalore
Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Barbaro 'ndrina
The Barbaro 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Barinas (state)
Barinas State (Estado Barinas) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela.
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Barrio Azteca
Barrio Azteca, or Los Aztecas, is a Mexican-American street and prison gang originally based in El Paso, Texas, USA and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Drug cartel and Barrio Azteca are transnational organized crime.
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Bashir Noorzai
Bashir Noorzai is a convicted former Afghan drug lord.
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Bayaman Erkinbayev
Bayaman Erkinbayev (Баяман Эркинбаев, c. 1967 - September 22, 2005) was a top Kyrgyzstani lawmaker and parliamentary deputy, who was the driving force behind the riots in southern Kyrgyzstan that led to the overthrow of President Askar Akayev on March 24, 2005.
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Bình Xuyên
Binh Xuyen Force (Bộ đội Bình Xuyên, Chữ Nôm: 平川部隊), 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 the law and had sided with the Việt Minh.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Behçet Cantürk
Behçet Cantürk (1950, Lice – January 14, 1994, Sapanca) was a Kurdish mob boss.
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Bellocco 'ndrina
The Bellocco 'ndrina is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Benny Binion
Lester Ben Binion (November 20, 1904 – December 25, 1989), better known as Benny Binion, was an American career criminal who established illegal gambling operations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Bernie Silver
Bernard Silver (December 1922 – 2002) was an English criminal, who was a leading crime boss in the London underworld of the 1950s to 1970s.
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Big Circle Gang
The Big Circle Gang or Big Circle Boys is a Chinese triad which was established in Hong Kong in the 1970s.
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Bill Dwyer (mobster)
William Vincent Dwyer (February 23, 1883 – December 10, 1946), known as "Big Bill" Dwyer, was an early Irish-American Prohibition gangster and bootlegger in New York during the 1920s.
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Bindy Johal
Bhupinder "Bindy" Singh Johal (14 January 1971 – 20 December 1998) was an Indo-Canadian gangster from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Birmingham Boys
The Birmingham Boys (also known as the Brummagem Boys or the Brum Boys) were a street gang whose power extended from the North of England to London's underworld, between the 1910s and 1930s.
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Black Axe (confraternity)
The Black Axe, also known as the Neo Black Movement of Africa or the NBM of Africa, is an international confraternity founded at the University of Benin in Nigeria as part of the Pan African movement. Drug cartel and Black Axe (confraternity) are transnational organized crime.
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Black Dragons (gang)
The Black Dragons was a Chinese-American criminal organization and street gang that was formed in 1980 by Chinese immigrants in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California.
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Black Eagles
Black Eagles (Águilas Negras) was a term describing a series of Colombian drug trafficking, right-wing, counter-revolutionary, paramilitary organizations made up of new and preexisting paramilitary forces, that emerged from the failures of the demobilization process between 2004 and 2006, which aimed to disarm the United Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC).
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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.
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Black Mafia Family
The Black Mafia Family (BMF) is a drug trafficking and money laundering organization in the United States.
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Bloods
The Bloods are a primarily African-American street gang which was founded in Los Angeles, California.
Body suit (tattoo)
A body suit or full body suit is an extensive tattoo, usually of a similar pattern, style or theme that covers the entire torso or the entire body.
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Bonanno crime family
The Bonanno 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 as part of the criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
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Boris Dekanidze
Boris Dekanidze (ბორის დეკანიძე; 13 December 1962 – 12 July 1995) was the head of the Vilnius Brigade criminal organization in Lithuania.
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Boris Nayfeld
Boris Mikhailovich Nayfeld (Russian: Борис Михайлович Найфельд, Belarusian: Барыс Міхайлавіч Нейфелд) also known as Biba (Russian: Биба, Belarusian: Біба) is a former Belarusian/Russian mob boss and heroin trafficker, who operated out of Brighton Beach, New York City.
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Broadway Mob
The Broadway Mob was a New York bootlegging gang during Prohibition.
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Brothers' Circle
The Brothers' Circle or Bratski Krug (Братский круг) is a term used to refer to Russian organized crime, commonly the Russian mafia. Drug cartel and Brothers' Circle are transnational organized crime.
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Bufalino crime family
The Bufalino crime family,Organized Crime in Pennsylvania: Traditional and Non-Traditional.
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Buffalo crime family
The Buffalo crime family, also known as the Magaddino crime family, the Todaro crime family, the New York State crime family, the Buffalo Mafia, the Upstate New York Mafia, and the Arm, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Buffalo, New York.
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Bugs and Meyer Mob
The Bugs (Bugsy) and Meyer Mob was a Jewish-American street gang in Manhattan, New York City's Lower East Side.
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Bulgarian mafia
The Bulgarian mafia (мафия) is a series of organized crime elements originating from Bulgaria. Drug cartel and Bulgarian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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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.
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Caborca Cartel
The Caborca Cartel (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 municipality of Caborca.
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Cachiros
Cachiros or Los Cachiros is the name of a Honduran criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking. Drug cartel and Cachiros are drug cartels.
Cali Cartel
The Cali Cartel (Cartel de Cali) was a drug cartel based in southern Colombia, around the city of Cali and the Valle del Cauca. Drug cartel and Cali Cartel are transnational organized crime.
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Camera di Controllo
The Camera di Controllo (Board of Control), is a collegial body of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria. Drug cartel and Camera di Controllo are organized crime terminology.
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Camorra
The Camorra is an Italian Mafia-type, by Umberto Santino, in: Albanese, Das & Verma, Organized Crime. Drug cartel and Camorra are transnational organized crime.
Camorra in New York City
The Brooklyn Camorra or New York Camorra (NY Camorra) was a loose grouping of early-20th-century organized crime gangs that formed among Italian immigrants originating in Naples and the surrounding Campania region living in Greater New York, particularly in Brooklyn.
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Cannabis in Morocco
Cannabis had been illegal in Morocco since the nation's independence in 1956, reaffirmed by a total ban on drugs in 1974, but was partially tolerated in the country.
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Cape Verdean organized crime
Cape Verdean organized crime refers to the various criminal organizations that are active in Cape Verde & Cape Verdean diaspora communities. Drug cartel and Cape Verdean organized crime are transnational organized crime.
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Carl Williams (criminal)
Carl Anthony Williams (13 October 1970 – 19 April 2010) was an Australian convicted murderer and drug trafficker from Melbourne, Victoria.
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Carlingue
The Carlingue (or French Gestapo) were French auxiliaries who worked for the Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst and Geheime Feldpolizei during the German occupation of France in the Second World War.
Carlos Rosales Mendoza
Carlos Alberto Rosales Mendoza (12 February 1963 – 27 December 2015) was a former Mexican drug lord who founded and led an organized crime syndicate called La Familia Michoacana.
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Cartel of the Suns
The Cartel of the Suns (Cartel de los Soles) is a Venezuelan organization supposedly headed by high-ranking members of the Armed Forces of Venezuela who are involved in international drug trade.
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Casalesi clan
The Casalesi clan is a clan within the Camorra, an Italian criminal organization, operating from San Cipriano d'Aversa in the province of Caserta. Drug cartel and Casalesi clan are transnational organized crime.
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Casamonica clan
The Casamonica clan is an Italian criminal organization present in Rome and operating in the area of the Castelli Romani and the.
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Cataldo 'ndrina
The Cataldo 'ndrina is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Cesarano clan
The Cesarano clan is a Camorra clan from the town of Castellammare di Stabia, in the Metropolitan City of Naples.
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Chaddi Baniyan gang
The Chaddi Baniyan Gangs (also known as the Kachcha Baniyan Gangs) are criminal groups operating in parts of India.
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Chaldean mafia
The Chaldean mafia, or Chaldean organized crime, is a collective of criminal organizations composed of Chaldean Catholic Assyrians which emerged in the United States during the 1980s.
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Chambers Brothers (gang)
The Chambers Brothers were a criminal organization heavily involved in the distribution of crack cocaine in the city of Detroit, Michigan, during the 1980s.
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Chao pho
Jao por (Thai: เจ้าพ่อ, “godfather”) is a term used in Thailand to describe the boss of organized crime groups.
Chapare Cartel
The Chapare Drug Cartel is a Bolivian criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking and human trafficking that operates in the Chapare region.
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Charles Birger
Charles "Charlie" Birger (born Shachna Itzak Birger, February 5, 1881 – April 19, 1928) was an American bootlegger during the Prohibition period in southern Illinois.
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Charles Sabini
Charles "Darby" Sabini (born Ottavio Handley; 11 July 1888 – 4 October 1950) was a British-Italian mob boss and considered protector of Little Italy during the interwar years.
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Charles Solomon (racketeer)
Charles "King" Solomon (1884 – January 24, 1933) was a Russian-born mob boss who controlled Boston's bootlegging, narcotics, and illegal gambling during the Prohibition era.
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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.
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Charlie Wall
Charles McKay Wall (March 10, 1880 – April 18, 1955) was an American businessman, mobster, and political figure who was a rival to reputed mobsters Santo Trafficante Sr. and Santo Trafficante Jr. His parents were John Perry Wall and Matilda McKay,daughter of former Tampa Mayor.
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Chợ Lớn
Chợ Lớn (堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Chechen mafia
The Chechen mafia (Noxçiyn mafi; Chechenskaya mafiya) is one of the largest ethnic organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia groups. Drug cartel and Chechen mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Cheetham Hill Gang
The Cheetham Hill Gang, also known as the Hillbillies, is an organised crime group based in Cheetham, Manchester, England.
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Chhota Rajan
Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje (born 13 January 1960), popularly known by his moniker Chhota Rajan, is an Indian gangster and convicted criminal who served as the boss of a major crime syndicate based in Mumbai.
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Chicago Outfit
The Chicago Outfit (also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, the Chicago crime family, the South Side Gang or the Organization) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Chicago, Illinois, which originated in the city's South Side in 1910.
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Chongqing gang trials
The Chongqing gang trials (or dahei campaign) were a series of triad-busting trials in the city of Chongqing that began in October 2009 and concluded in 2011.
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Chotu gang
Chotu gang was a Pakistani gang that engaged in kidnapping, murder, smuggling, gun-running and highway robberies led by Ghulam Rasool who goes by the alias, "Chotu." The gang was based in the Kacha area of Rajanpur.
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CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking
A number of writers have alleged that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was involved in the Nicaraguan Contras' cocaine trafficking operations during the 1980s Nicaraguan civil war.
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Clan del Golfo
The Clan del Golfo (English: The Gulf Clan), also known as Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia – AGC) and formerly called Los Urabeños and Clan Úsuga, is a prominent Colombian neo-paramilitary group and currently the country's largest drug cartel.
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Claude Maddox
Claude "Screwy" Maddox (1901 – June 21, 1958), born John Edward Moore, was a Chicago mobster and head of the Circus Cafe Gang whose ranks included future Chicago mobsters Anthony "Tough Tony" Capezio, Vincenzo De Mora ("Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, one-time owner of the "Green Mill") and Antonino "Tony" "Joe Batters" Accardo.
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Clerkenwell crime syndicate
The Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate, also known as the Adams Family or the A-team, is an English criminal organisation, allegedly one of the most powerful in the United Kingdom.
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Cleveland crime family
The Cleveland crime family, also known as the Scalish crime family or the Cleveland Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Cleveland, Ohio, and throughout the Greater Cleveland area.
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Club Tijuana
Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles de Caliente, commonly known as Tijuana, or simply as Xolos, is a Mexican professional football club based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
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Colacurcio Organization
The Colacurcio Organization, also known as the Colacurcio crime family, by Michael Rollins (June 3, 2008) The Oregonian is a criminal organization based in Seattle, Washington.
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Colima Cartel
The Colima Cartel (Cártel de Colima) was a Mexican drug trafficking and methamphetamine producing cartel operating in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
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Collusion
Collusion is a deceitful agreement or secret cooperation between two or more parties to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading or defrauding others of their legal right.
Colombo crime family
The Colombo crime family is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and the youngest of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City within the criminal organization known as the American Mafia.
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Colorado crime family
The Colorado crime family, also known as the Smaldone crime family, the Denver crime family, the Denver Mafia or the Mountain Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pueblo and Denver, Colorado.
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Comando Vermelho
Comando Vermelho (Red Command or Red Commando), also known as CV, is a Brazilian criminal organization engaged primarily in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, protection racketeering, kidnapping-for-ransom, hijacking of armored trucks, loansharking, irregular warfare, narco-terrorism, and turf wars against rival criminal organizations, such as Primeiro Comando da Capital and Terceiro Comando Puro.
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Commisso 'ndrina
The Commisso 'ndrina is a powerful clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organization in Calabria, Italy.
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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.
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Contini clan
The Contini clan is a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the city of Naples, and more specifically in the area of the Naples Central Station. Drug cartel and Contini clan are transnational organized crime.
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Controversies surrounding the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Since the establishment of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (also known as Sepah or Pasdaran in Iran) the organization has been involved in economic and military activities, some of them controversial.
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Cordì 'ndrina
The Cordì 'ndrina is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Corleonesi Mafia clan
The Corleonesi Mafia clan was a faction within the Corleone family of the Sicilian Mafia, formed in the 1970s.
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Cornbread Mafia
The "Cornbread mafia" was the name for a group of Kentucky men who created the largest domestic marijuana production operation in United States history.
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Corsican mafia
The Corsican mafia is a collective of criminal groups originating from Corsica. Drug cartel and Corsican mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Cotroni crime family
The Cotroni crime family, originally CotroneAuger and Edwards The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime p.63.
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Crime in Baltimore
The American city of Baltimore, Maryland, is notorious for its crime rate, which ranks well above the national average.
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Crime in Chicago
Crime in Chicago has been tracked by the Chicago Police Department's Bureau of Records since the beginning of the 20th century.
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Crime in China
Despite a reportedly low crime rate in China, crime still occurs in various forms.
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Crime in Detroit
As of 2018, Detroit had the fourth highest murder rate among major cities in the United States after St. Louis and Baltimore and the 42nd highest murder rate in the world.
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Crime in Estonia
Estonia is a relatively safe country, and the risk of being a victim of crime in Estonia is small by international standards.
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Crime in Florida
Crime in Florida refers to crime occurring within the U.S. State of Florida.
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Crime in Hawaii
In 2008, there were 49,516 crimes reported in the U.S. state of Hawaii, including 25 murders, 46,004 property crimes, and 365 rapes.
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Crime in Honduras
Crime in Honduras has become a growing matter of concern for the Honduran population in recent years.
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Crime in Hong Kong
Crime in Hong Kong is present in various forms.
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Crime in Kosovo
Kosovo within communist Yugoslavia had the lowest rate of crime in the whole country.
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Crime in London
Figures on crime in London are based primarily on two sets of statistics: the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime data.
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Crime in Los Angeles
Crime in Los Angeles has varied throughout time, reaching peaks between the 1970s and 1990s.
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Crime in Malaysia
Crime in Malaysia manifests in various forms, including murder, drive-by shooting, drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, black marketeering, and many others.
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Crime in Merseyside
Crime in Merseyside is the Crime in Merseyside is the responsibility of Merseyside Police, and its chief constable Andy Cooke.
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Crime in New South Wales
Criminal activity in New South Wales, Australia is combated by the New South Wales Police Force and the New South Wales court system, while statistics about crime are managed by the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
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Crime in New York City
Crime rates in New York City have been recorded since at least the 1800s.
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Crime in Oakland, California
Crime in Oakland, California began to rise during the late 1960s after the King assassination riots, and by the end of the 1970s Oakland's per capita murder rate had risen to twice that of San Francisco or New York City.
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Crime in Philadelphia
Philadelphia consistently ranks above the national average in terms of crime, especially violent offenses.
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Crime in Poland
Crime in Poland refers to the incidence, deterrence, and handling of criminal activity in the Republic of Poland by Polish law enforcement agencies charged with ensuring public safety and maintaining order.
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Crime in Spain
Overall, rates of crime in Spain are relatively low in comparison to other European countries, with the notable exception of robberies.
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Crime in St. Louis
Crime in St.
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Crime in Victoria
Criminal activity in Victoria, Australia is combated by the Victoria Police and the Victorian court system, while statistics about crime are managed by the Crime Statistics Agency.
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Crime in Washington, D.C.
Crime in Washington, D.C., is directly related to the city's demographics, geography, and unique criminal justice system.
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Crime in Western Australia
Crime in Western Australia is tackled by the Western Australia Police and the Western Australian legal system.
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Crips
The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California.
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. Drug cartel and Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan are transnational organized crime.
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Curaçao
Curaçao (or, or, Papiamentu), officially the Country of Curaçao (Land Curaçao; Papiamentu: Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea, specifically the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of Venezuela.
Curtis Warren
Curtis Francis WarrenBarnes, Tony; Richard Elias; Peter Walsh.
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D-Company
D-Company is a name coined by the Indian media for one of Mumbai underworld's organized crime syndicate founded and controlled by Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian crime boss, drug dealer and wanted terrorist.
D. P. Yadav
Dharam Pal Yadav, also known as D. P. Yadav, is an Indian politician and a former cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
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Dacoity
Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in the Indian subcontinent.
Dallas crime family
The Dallas crime family, also known as the Civello crime family or the Dallas Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Dallas, Texas.
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Danny Greene
Daniel John Patrick Greene (November 14, 1933 – October 6, 1977) was an American mobster in Cleveland, Ohio, whose conflicts with the Cleveland crime family of the Italian-American Mafia ended in Greene's murder in 1977.
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Danny Hogan
"Dapper" Danny Hogan (c. 1880 - December 4, 1928) was an Irish-American organized crime figure, political fixer, and the boss of Saint Paul, Minnesota's Irish Mob both before and during Prohibition.
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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.
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Dündar Kılıç
Dündar Kılıç (real name Dündar Alikılıç) (1935 – 10 August 1999) was an infamous boss in the Turkish underworld.
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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 the municipality of Cercola.
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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.
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DeCavalcante crime family
The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey crime family or the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, Newark, West New York and the surrounding areas.
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Deep state in Turkey
In Turkey, the deep state (derin devlet) is an alleged group of influential anti-democratic coalitions inside the Turkish political structure, composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services (domestic and foreign), the Turkish military, security agencies, the judiciary, and mafia.
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Desmond Noonan
Desmond Patrick "Dessy" Noonan (8 August 1959 – 19 March 2005) was an English organised crime figure from Manchester, who acted as a political fixer for the Noonan crime family.
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Detroit Partnership
The Detroit Partnership (also known as the Detroit crime family, the Detroit Combination, the Detroit Mafia, the Zerilli crime family, and the Tocco–Zerilli crime family) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Detroit, Michigan.
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Di Lauro clan
The Di Lauro clan is an Italian crime clan, part of the Camorra in Naples. Drug cartel and Di Lauro clan are transnational organized crime.
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Diosdado Cabello
Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born 15 April 1963Vicepresidencia de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela also drug lord of Venezuela. Murderer and drug trafficker, head of the cartel de los soles, atentamente alcardone, accessed 19 April 2010) is a Venezuelan politician and current member of the National Assembly of Venezuela, where he previously served as Speaker.
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Distribution (marketing)
Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for the consumer or business user who needs it, and a distributor is a business involved in the distribution stage of the value chain.
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Dixie Mafia
The Dixie Mafia, or the Dixie Mob, is an American criminal organization composed mainly of White Southerners and based in Biloxi, Mississippi, operating primarily throughout the Southern United States since at least the late 1960s.
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Doghmush clan
The Doghmush (دغمش, pronounced "Doe-moosh" or "Durmush", see spelling) is a Palestinian clan from the Gaza Strip.
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Dojin-kai
The is a yakuza organization headquartered in Kurume, Fukuoka, on the Kyushu island of Japan,, April 2011, National Police Agency a designated yakuza syndicate, with approximately 320 members. As well as being known as a militant yakuza organization, the Dojin-kai has also been known as a de facto drug cartel, as its activities have allegedly included large-scale drug trafficking, specifically methamphetamine trafficking, which is traditionally shunned in the yakuza world.
Dole Chadee
Dole Chadee (born Nankissoon Boodram) (executed June 4, 1999) was an accused drug lord and convicted murderer.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
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Dominick Napolitano
Dominick Napolitano (June 16, 1930 – August 17, 1981), also known as Sonny Black, was an American Mafia caporegime in the Bonanno crime family.
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Donald Killeen
Donald Killeen (September 14, 1923 – May 13, 1972) was an American mob boss who controlled criminal activity, primarily bookmaking, loansharking, and numbers in South Boston, during the late 1940s to the early 1970s.
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Donetsk Clan
The Donetsk Clan (translit; translit), also called the Donetsk Mafia, the Donetsk Family, or simply "The Family", was a group of Ukrainian oligarchs and members of the Ukrainian mafia active between the late Soviet period and the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, when the clan collapsed.
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Donovan Bennett
Bulbie "Donovan" Bennett (– 30 October 2005) was a Jamaican criminal and gang leader of the Klansman (or Klans Massive) based in Spanish Town, St. Catherine.
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Downtown Gang
The Downtown Gang was one of the two gangs that dominated the organized crime world in Galveston, Texas, United States, mainly during prohibition.
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Drug Cartels Do Not Exist
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture is a 2022 non-fiction book by Oswaldo Zavala.
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Drug Enforcement Administration
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Justice tasked with combating illicit drug trafficking and distribution within the U.S. It is the lead agency for domestic enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act, sharing concurrent jurisdiction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S.
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Drug lord
A drug lord, drug baron, kingpin, or lord of drugs is a type of crime boss in charge of a drug trafficking network, organization, or enterprise. Drug cartel and drug lord are drug cartels and illegal drug trade.
Drugs in Cambodia
In Cambodia, drugs are readily available, thus, easy to access, including illegal substances.
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Dubois brothers
The Dubois Brothers, also known as the Dubois gang, were a French-Canadian organized crime group consisting of nine brothers, which operated mostly in Montreal in the 1950s to the mid-1980s.
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Dung Hà
Vũ Thị Hoàng Dung (better known by her nickname Dung Hà; 1965October 2, 2000) was a Vietnamese female gangster.
Dutch Schultz
Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901October 24, 1935) was an American mobster based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Eamon Dunne
Eamon Dunne, nicknamed "The Don", was a major Irish organised crime figure from Finglas, North Dublin.
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East Harlem Purple Gang
The East Harlem Purple Gang was a gang and organized crime group in New York City 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 distribution in East Harlem, Italian Harlem, and the Bronx during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Eddie Nash
Eddie Nash (April 3, 1929 – August 9, 2014) was an American nightclub owner and restaurateur in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted money launderer and drug dealer.
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Edsel Torres Gómez
Edsel Torres Gomez a.k.a. "Negri" (born c. 1962) is a Puerto Rican alleged former drug dealer who was on the FBI most wanted list for four years and is now serving prison time in Mississippi.
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Egan's Rats
Egan's Rats was an American organized crime gang that exercised considerable power in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1890 to 1924.
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El Universal (Caracas)
El Universal is a major Venezuelan newspaper, headquartered in Caracas.
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Elephant and Castle Mob
The Elephant and Castle Mob were one of the many independent street gangs active in London's underworld during the interwar years.
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Evsei Agron
Evsei Borisovich Agron (r; 25 January 1932 – 4 May 1985) was a Soviet-American mobster and boss of New York City's Russian mafia during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Família do Norte
The Familia do Norte (Northern Family) is a criminal faction that occupies northern Brazil and some regions in other countries such as: Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.
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Famiglia Vagabonda
The Famiglia Vagabonda ("Wandering Family") was an American Prohibition-era criminal organization of Italian origin operating in Clarksburg and Fairmont, West Virginia.
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FARC dissidents
FARC dissidents (Spanish: Disidencias de las Farc), also known as Carlos Patiño Front, are a group, formerly part of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who have refused to lay down their arms after the Colombian peace process came into effect in 2016, or resumed their insurgency afterwards.
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Federal Police (Mexico)
The Federal Police (Policía Federal, PF), formerly known as the Policía Federal Preventiva (Federal Preventive Police) and sometimes referred to in the U.S. as "Federales", was a Mexican national police force formed in 1999.
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Felix Mitchell
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.
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Fernando Zevallos
Fernando Melciades Zevallos González, also known as Fernando Melciades Zevallos Gonzáles, is the founder and owner of what was Peru's largest airline, Aero Continente.
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Five Families
The Five Families refer to five Italian American Mafia crime families that operate in New York City.
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Flukey Stokes
William Morris "Flukey" Stokes (December 12, 1937 – November 19, 1986) was an American reputed mobster from Chicago, Illinois. Stokes was from the South Side and well known for his silk suits, diamond rings, and flamboyant lifestyle as a drug trafficking kingpin and pool hall owner. Stokes immortalized himself in Chicago by throwing a US$200,000 party on his 30th wedding anniversary in 1985 and for the decadent funeral he arranged for his murdered 28-year-old son, Willie "the Wimp" Stokes, Jr.
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Forest Brothers (Georgia)
The Forest Brothers (ტყის ძმები, tq'is dz'mebi) were a guerrilla group consisting mostly of ethnic Georgians who remained in the breakaway republic of Abkhazia after the Georgian regular army's defeat in the War in Abkhazia (1992–1993), Stratfor and resisted the ethnic cleansing of Georgians in the disputed territory.
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Four Seas Gang
The Four Seas Gang, or FSG (四海幫, or Si Hai Bang) is a triad society based in Taiwan and founded in May 1954.
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Francis Turatello
Francesco Turatello (Asiago, 1944 – Nuoro, August 17, 1981) was an important Italian crime figure and mob boss who operated during the 1970s and early 1980s mainly in the city of Milan.
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Francisca Cortés Picazo
Francisca Cortés Picazo (born 20 May 1955), more commonly known as "La Paca", is a Spanish drug lord, and matriarch of the Romani drug clan known as "La Paca" clan.
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Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas (September 9, 1930 – May 30, 2019) was an American drug lord who operated in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Frank Matthews (drug trafficker)
Frank Larry Matthews (February 13, 1944 – disappeared June 26, 1973), also known as Black Caesar, Mark IV and Pee Wee, was an American drug trafficker and crime boss who sold heroin and cocaine throughout the eastern United States from 1965 to 1972.
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Frankfurt mafia
The Frankfurt mafia is a crime group from Veles, North Macedonia that was involved in the heroin trade in Frankfurt, Germany and Vienna, Austria.
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František Mrázek
František Mrázek (1 February 1958 – 25 January 2006 in Prague) was a controversial Czech entrepreneur, often referred to as the "Godfather of Czech Organized Crime".
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Frontline (American TV program)
Frontline (stylized in all capital letters) is an investigative documentary program distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.
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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.
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Fukuhaku-kai
The is a yakuza organization based in Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan.
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Gaeton Fonzi
Gaeton Fonzi (October 10, 1935 – August 30, 2012) was an American investigative journalist and author known for his work on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Gafur Rakhimov
Gafur Rakhimov (G'ofur-Arslonbek Ahmedovich Rahimov) (born July 22, 1951) is an Uzbek businessman and sports administrator who was the President of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) for 20 months until his resignation in July 2019.
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Galician Mafia
The Galician mafia are drug smuggling groups in the Spanish region of Galicia.
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Gambino crime family
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, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
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Gang de la Brise de Mer
The gang de la Brise de Mer was one of the most powerful Corsican criminal organizations. Drug cartel and gang de la Brise de Mer are transnational organized crime.
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Gang des postiches
The Gang des postiches (Hairpiece Gang) was a team of bank robbers that operated in Paris between 1981 and 1986, robbing around thirty banks.
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Gang des Tractions Avant
The Gang des Tractions Avant was a criminal gang in the Pigalle quarter of Paris, made up of surviving members of the Carlingue militia, lapsed police officers and criminals from the French Resistance.
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Gang of Çole
Gang of Çole (Banda e Çoles or Banda e Zani Çaushit) was an Albanian criminal group that operated in the city of Vlorë during 1997–2001.
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Gang of Gaxhai
Gang of Gaxhai was a criminal group created in March 1997 that operated in the city of Vlora during 1997 when anarchy reigned in the South.
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Gang of Pusi i Mezinit
Gang of Pusi i Mezinit was a criminal group with activities throughout southern Albania.
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Gangs in the United States
Approximately 1.4 million people in the United States were part of gangs as of 2011, and more than 33,000 gangs were active in the country.
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Genna crime family
The Genna crime family, was a crime family that operated in Prohibition-era Chicago.
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Genovese crime family
The Genovese crime family, also sometimes referred to as the Westside, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City and New Jersey as part of the American Mafia.
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Genovese crime family New Jersey faction
The Genovese crime family's New Jersey faction is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Genovese crime family who control organized crime activities within the state of New Jersey.
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George Freeman (bookmaker)
George David Freeman (22 January 193520 March 1990) was an Australian bookmaker, racing identity and illegal casino operator.
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George Remus
George Remus (November 13, 1876 – January 20, 1952) was a German-born American lawyer who was a bootlegger during the early days of Prohibition, and later murdered his wife Imogene.
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Georgian mafia
Georgian mafia (tr) is regarded as one of the biggest, most powerful, dangerous and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the largest number of "thieves in law" in all former USSR countries and controls and regulates most of the Russian-speaking and fully controls Russia and Georgia mafia groups. Drug cartel and Georgian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Ghee Hin Kongsi
The Ghee Hin Kongsi was a secret society in Singapore and Malaya, formed in 1820.
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Giuseppe Puca
Giuseppe Puca (June 1, 1955 − February 7, 1989) was an Italian Camorrista, and the right hand of Raffaele Cutolo, boss of the Nuova Camorra Organizzata (NCO).
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Goda-ikka
The is a yakuza group based in Yamaguchi, Japan.
Golden Crescent
The Golden Crescent is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production (with the other being the Golden Triangle).
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Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia)
The Golden Triangle is a large, mountainous region of approximately in northeastern Myanmar, northwestern Thailand and northern Laos, centered on the confluence of the Ruak and Mekong rivers.
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Gooch Close Gang
The Gooch Close Gang also known as the G.C.O.G's (Gooch Close Original Gangsters) or simply “The Gooch” in Manchester, is an organised crime group based in Moss Side and surrounding neighbourhoods of south Manchester, England.
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Gothenburg pub shooting
The shootings at the pub Vår Krog & Bar in Gothenburg happened on 18 March 2015.
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Goto-gumi
The was a Japanese yakuza organization founded by Tadamasa Goto.
GQ
GQ (which stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly and is also known Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.
Greco Mafia clan
The Greco Mafia family is historically one of the most influential Mafia clans in Sicily, from the late 19th century.
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Greek Americans
Greek Americans (Ελληνοαμερικανοί Ellinoamerikanoí Ελληνοαμερικάνοι Ellinoamerikánoi) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry.
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Greek mafia
Greek mafia is the colloquial term describing various large-scale organized crime elements originating in Greece or operated by Greeks. Drug cartel and Greek mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Green Bay Massacre
The Green Bay Massacre was a covert operation on 5 January 1978, in which five Jamaica Labour Party supporters were shot dead after being lured into an ambush at the Green Bay Firing Range by members of the Jamaica Defence Force.
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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.
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Greenwich Village Crew
The Greenwich Village Crew is a crew within the Genovese crime family, active in the Greenwich Village area of Manhattan.
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Gregory Scarpa
Gregory Scarpa (May 8, 1928 – June 4, 1994), nicknamed the Grim Reaper and also the Mad Hatter, was an American caporegime and hitman for the Colombo crime family, as well as an informant for the FBI.
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Group 13
The Group 13 network (Trzynastka, Yiddish: דאָס דרײַצענטל) was a Jewish collaborationist organization in the Warsaw Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Guardiões do Estado
The Guardians of the State (Brazilian Portuguese: Guardiões do Estado), or the acronym GDE, is a Brazilian criminal faction.
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Gun crime in south Manchester
Gun crime in south Manchester, England, largely took place in an inner city area south of Manchester city centre, from Hulme through Moss Side to Longsight.
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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.
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Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
Hai San Secret Society
The Hai San Society (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hói-sân), which had its origins in Southern China,Encyclopædia Britannica was a Penang-based Chinese secret society established around 1820 and in 1825 led by Low, Ah ChongTriad Societies: Western Accounts of the History, Sociology and Linguistics of Chinese Secret Societies By Kingsley Bolton, Gustaaf Schlegel, Herbert Allen Giles, Christopher Hutton, J.
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Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
Haitians
Haitians (French: Haïtiens, Ayisyen) are the citizens of Haiti and the descendants in the diaspora through direct parentage.
Haji Bagcho
Haji Bagcho Sherzai, also known as Haji Bagh Chagul or Haji Bagcho (born 1954), is a convicted drug trafficker from Afghanistan.
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Haji Mastan
Mastan Mirza (1 March 1926 25 June 1994), popularly known as Haji Mastan or Sultan Mirza, was an organised crime gang leader, originally from Tamil Nadu and based in Bombay.
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Hakeem Abdul-Shaheed
Hakeem Abdul-Shaheed (born Robert Edward Molley; March 4, 1959), also known as Midget Molley, is an American convicted drug dealer and organized crime leader.
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Harry Sagansky
Harry J. "Doc" Sagansky (January 6, 1898 – January 28, 1997) was an American crime boss of Jewish descent.
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Hüseyin Baybaşin
Hüseyin Baybaşin (born 25 December 1956) is a Kurdish drug baron and organised crime boss.
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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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.
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Honda-kai
The Honda-kai (本多会) were a Japanese yakuza gang active in Kobe in the middle of the 20th century.
Honghuzi
Honghuzi were armed Chinese robbers and bandits who operated in the areas of the eastern Russia-China borderland during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
Honoured Society (Australia)
The Honoured Society (Onorata Società) is a Calabrian 'ndrangheta criminal confederation, started in Melbourne and currently active in all of Australia.
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Hornec gang
The Hornec brothers gang, also called "the H" or "the Montreuil gang", is a Gitanes criminal group from the region of Paris.
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Howard Mason
Howard "Pappy" Mason (born September 8, 1959) is an American drug trafficker and organized crime figure.
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Hoxton Gang
The Hoxton Gang (or Hoxton Mob) was an independent street gang based in Soho, London, during the interwar years.
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Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who served as the 47th president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002.
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Ichiwa-kai
The Ichiwa-kai (一和会) was a yakuza gang based in Osaka, Japan.
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Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs. Drug cartel and illegal drug trade are smuggling.
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Illegal drug trade in Colombia
The illegal drug trade in Colombia has, since the 1970s, centered successively on four major drug trafficking cartels: Medellín, Cali, Norte del Valle, and North Coast, as well as several bandas criminales, or BACRIMs.
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Illegal drug trade in Peru
The illegal drug trade in Peru includes the growing of coca and the shipment of cocaine to the United States.
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Illegal drug trade in Puerto Rico
The Illegal drug trade in Puerto Rico is a problem from a criminal, social, and medical perspective.
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Illegal drug trade in the Philippines
The prevalence of illegal drug use in the Philippines is lower than the global average, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
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Illegal drug trade in Turkey
The illegal drug trade in Turkey has played a significant role in its history.
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Illicit activities of North Korea
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 (especially the United States dollar and Chinese yuan), terrorism, and other areas.
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Inagawa-kai
The is the third largest of Japan's yakuza groups, with approximately 1,700 members.
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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.
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Indo-Canadian organized crime
Indo-Canadian organized crime is made up predominantly of young adults and teenagers of Indian ethnic, cultural and linguistic background.
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Insurgency in Northeast India
The Insurgency in Northeast India involves multiple separatist militant groups operating in some of India's northeastern states, which are connected to the rest of India by the Siliguri Corridor, a strip of land as narrow as wide.
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Interwar unemployment and poverty in the United Kingdom
Unemployment was the dominant issue of British society during the interwar years.
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Inzerillo Mafia clan
The Inzerillo Mafia clan is a Sicilian Mafia clan, formerly among the most powerful in Sicily, for at least half a century they were considered the "aristocracy of Palermo's mafia".
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Irish Mob
The Irish Mob (also known as the Irish mafia or Irish organized crime) is a usually crime family–based ethnic collective of organized crime syndicates composed of primarily ethnic Irish members which operate primarily in Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and have been in existence since the early 19th century. Drug cartel and Irish Mob are transnational organized crime.
Isabel Hilton
Isabel Nancy Hilton OBE (born 25 November 1947) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster, based in London.
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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU; Oʻzbekiston islomiy harakati; Исламское движение Узбекистана) was a militant Islamist group formed in 1998 by Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani; both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley.
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Ismail Lika
Ismail Lika was a Kosovar-Albanian mobster active in New York City in the 1980s.
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Ismet Bajramović
Ismet "Ćelo" Bajramović (26 April 1966 – 17 December 2008) was a Bosnian soldier and reputed organized crime figure from Sarajevo.
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Israeli mafia
The Israeli mafia (Mafiyah Yisraelit, or ארגוני פשע בישראל,, "organized crime in Israel") are the organized crime groups operating in Israel or consisting of Israeli members. Drug cartel and Israeli mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Italian-American National Union
The Italian-American National Union (formerly known as Unione Siciliana) was a Sicilian-American organization, which controlled much of the Italian vote within the United States during the early twentieth century.
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Ivo Karamanski
Ivo Karamanski (Иво Карамански) (November 29, 1959 in Sofia, Bulgaria – December 20, 1998) was a reputed Bulgarian mobster.
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Jack Comer
Jack "Spot" Comer (12 April 1912 – 12 March 1996) was a Jewish gangster who rose to rule London's underworld.
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Jackson Diehl
Jackson Diehl (born 1956) is a newspaper editor and reporter.
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Jackson Street Boys
The Jackson Boyz, JBZ or Jackson Street Boys, JSB are or were a San Francisco, California based Asian American street gang and criminal organization The gang, composed of Cantonese and Vietnamese members, has been centered in San Francisco's Chinatown, and was named for Jackson Street.
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Jacky Imbert
Jacques Imbert (30 December 1929 – 11 November 2019) was a French gang leader who first came to prominence in 1960s Marseille's underworld, where he was considered "The Last Godfather".
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Jalisco New Generation Cartel
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) or CJNG, is a Mexican criminal syndicate, based in Jalisco and headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho").
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Jamaican posse
Jamaican posses, often referred to simply as posses, are a loose coalition of Jamaican gangs, based predominantly in Kingston, Montego Bay, London, New York City and Toronto, first being involved in drugs and arms trafficking in the early 1980s. Drug cartel and Jamaican posse are transnational organized crime.
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James Patrick O'Leary
James Patrick O'Leary (1869 – January 22, 1925) was a gambling boss and saloon owner in Chicago.
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James Rosemond
James Rosemond, often known as Jimmy Henchman or sometimes Jimmy Henchmen, is an American former entertainment record executive and convicted criminal.
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Jewish-American organized crime
Jewish-American organized crime initially emerged within the American Jewish community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Jim Elkins (criminal)
James Butler Elkins (1901–1968) was a crime boss in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-20th century.
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John Gambino
Giovanni "John" Gambino (August 22, 1940 – November 16, 2017) was an Italian-born American mobster.
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John Gilligan (criminal)
John Gilligan (born 28 March 1952) is a convicted Irish gangster.
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John Ibrahim
John Houssam Ibrahim (born 25 August 1970) is a former Kings Cross nightclub owner in Australia.
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John Patrick Looney
John Patrick Looney (1865–1942) was an American political fixer and Irish mob boss based in Rock Island, Illinois during the early 20th century.
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Jorge Solano Moreta
Jorge Solano Moreta (born c. 1970), also commonly known as Wes Solano, is an admitted drug seller from Puerto Rico.
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José Figueroa Agosto
Jose Figueroa Agosto (born "José David Figueroa Agosto"; June 28, 1964), also known as "Junior Capsula" and "the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean", is a Puerto Rican former drug trafficker.
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José Miguel Battle Sr.
Jose Miguel Battle Sr. (September 14, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was a policeman and Cuban exile who served in the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow the communist Cuban regime in 1961.
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Joseph Filkowski
Joseph Filkowski was a Polish-American gangster active in Cleveland, Ohio, US.
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Joseph Rosenzweig
Joseph "Joe The Greaser" Rosenzweig (17 April 1890 –), also known as Joe Rosen, was an American New York City labor racketeer in the early 1900s as an ally of "Dopey" Benny Fein during the Labor Slugger Wars (1914–1917).
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Joseph Saltis
Joseph Francis Saltis (8 September 1894 – 2 August 1947), known as "Polack Joe", was a Rusyn American Prohibition era organized crime boss who, with Frank McErlane, operated an illegal bootlegging crime family in the Back of the Yards neighborhood of Chicago, until his territory was seized by Al Capone and the Chicago Outfit.
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Juan Matta-Ballesteros
Juan Ramón Matta-Ballesteros (born January 12, 1945) (also spelled Mata-Ballesteros) is a Honduran former major narcotics trafficker who has been credited with being one of the first to connect Mexican drug traffickers with the Colombian cocaine cartels.
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Juárez Cartel
The Juárez Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Juárez), also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across the Mexico—U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. Drug cartel and Juárez Cartel are transnational organized crime.
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Juma Khan
Juma Khan is an ethnic Baloch drug lord from Afghanistan's southern Nimruz Province who has links with the Taliban.
Jundallah (Iran)
Jundallah (lit), also known as the People's Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI), was a Sunni Salafi militant organization based in Sistan and Baluchestan, a province in southeast Iran.
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Jusuf Prazina
Jusuf "Juka" Prazina (7 September 1962 – 4 December 1993) was a Bosniak organized crime figure and warlord during the Bosnian War.
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K&A Gang
The K&A Gang, or the Northeast Philly Irish Mob, is a predominantly Irish American criminal network based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kadyrovites
The 141st Special Motorized Regiment, also known as the Kadyrovites and the Akhmat special forces unit, is a paramilitary organization in Chechnya, Russia, that serves as the protection of the Head of the Chechen Republic.
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Kala Kachcha gang
Kala Kachcha gang (also known as Kale-Kachchewale or Kale Kachche gang) refers to certain organized criminal gangs in Punjab, India.
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Kamchy Kolbayev
Kamchy Asanbekovich Kolbayev (Камчибек Асанбекович Кольбаев; Камчыбек Асанбек уулу Көлбаев; 3 August 1974 – 4 October 2023) was an alleged crime boss in Kyrgyzstan. Drug cartel and Kamchy Kolbayev are transnational organized crime.
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Kansas City crime family
The Kansas City crime family, also known as the Civella crime family, the Kansas City Mafia or the Clique, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Kansuke
Kansuke (written: 悍右 or 勘助) is a masculine Japanese given name.
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.
Karim Lala
Karim Lala (1911 – 19 February 2002), born as Abdul Karim Sher Khan in the Samalam Village of the Shegal District of the Kunar province of Afghanistan, was infamous as one of the three "mafia dons of Mumbai" in India for more than two decades from the sixties to the early eighties.
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Kazan phenomenon
The Kazan phenomenon (Казанский феномен, Kazanskiy fenomen) was a term used by journalists to describe the rise in juvenile street-gang activity in the city of Kazan in the RSFSR and later, the Russian Federation.
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Keane-Collopy
The Keane-Collopy gang is a criminal organisation based in Limerick City, Ireland.
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Khánh Trắng
Khánh Trắng (literally translated as "White Khanh") was the President of Dong Xuan Labor Union.
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Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev
Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev (Хож-Ахмет Нухаев; born November 11, 1954) also known as Khozha was a Chechen gangster and boss of the Chechen mafia known as Obshina in Moscow and a prominent figure in Chechen politics.
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Khun Sa
Khun Sa (ခွန်ဆာ,; 17 February 1934 – 26 October 2007) was an ethnic Chinese drug lord and warlord.
Kid Cann
Isadore Blumenfeld (September 8, 1900 – June 21, 1981), commonly known as Kid Cann, was a Romanian-born Jewish-American organized crime enforcer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for over four decades.
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. Drug cartel and Kinahan Organised Crime Group are drug cartels.
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Kkangpae
Kkangpae is a romanization of the Korean word that is commonly translated to 'gangster' or 'thug'.
Klaas Bruinsma (drug lord)
Klaas Bruinsma (6 October 1953 – 27 June 1991) was a major Dutch drug lord.
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Knights Templar Cartel
The Knights Templar Cartel (Spanish: Los Caballeros Templarios) was a Mexican criminal organization originally composed of the remnants of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel based in the Mexican State of Michoacán.
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Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi
The is a yakuza organization based in Hyogo, Japan.
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Kodo-kai
The Kodo-kai (Kōdō-kai, Koh-doh-kai) is a yakuza criminal organization based in Nagoya, Japan.
Kokusui-kai
The Kokusui-kai ("Patriotic Society") (國粹会), founded in 1958 by Masaji Morita, is a Tokyo-based yakuza organization with an estimated 1000 members.
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Kotwal Ramachandra
Kotwal Ramachandra was a gangster in Bangalore in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Kozakura-ikka
The is a yakuza organization based in Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, with an estimated 60 active members.
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Kray twins
Ronald "Ronnie" Kray (24 October 193320 March 1995) and Reginald "Reggie" Kray (24 October 19331 October 2000) were English organised crime figures, and identical twin brothers from Haggerston, who were prominent from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968.
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Kudo-kai
The is a yakuza group headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 200 active members.
Kuratong Baleleng
Kuratong Baleleng is an organized crime syndicate in the Philippines that was once an anti-communist, vigilante group.
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Kushchyovskaya massacre
The Kushchyovskaya massacre, carried out on 4 November 2010, was the murder of 12 people including four children in the village of Kushchyovskaya, Krasnodar Krai of southern Russia.
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Kyodo-kai
The is a yakuza group based in Hiroshima, Japan.
Kyokuryū-kai
The is a yakuza criminal organization based on the Okinawa island of Japan,, December 2009, National Police Agency with an estimated membership of 210, April 2011, National Police Agency –270.
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Kyokuto Sakurai-soke-rengokai
The was a yakuza gang formerly based in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Kyokuto-kai
The is a yakuza organization based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Kyosei-kai
The is a yakuza group based in Hiroshima, Japan.
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Kyushu Seido-kai
The was a yakuza organization based in Fukuoka Prefecture on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 150 active members.
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La Barredora
La Barredora ("The Sweeper Truck") is a criminal gang based in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, Guerrero and its surrounding territories.
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La Corporación
La Corporación ("The Corporation"), also known as the Santa Ana Cartel, was a Bolivian drug cartel and criminal organization, headed in the 1970s and 1980s by notorious drug lord Roberto Suárez Goméz, known as the "King of Cocaine". Drug cartel and la Corporación are transnational organized crime.
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La Familia Michoacana
La Familia Michoacana (LFM; English: The Michoacán Family), La Familia (English: The Family), is a Mexican drug cartel and organized crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Drug cartel and La Familia Michoacana are transnational organized crime.
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La Línea (gang)
La Línea ("The Line") is currently the leading faction of the Juárez Cartel originally designed to be one of the cartel's enforcer units set up by a number of former and active-duty policemen, heavily armed and extensively trained in urban warfare.
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La Resistencia (gang)
Cárteles Unidos (English: United Cartels), also known as La Resistencia (English: The Resistance) is a Mexican criminal enforcer squad composed of well-trained gunmen from the Sinaloa Cartel, Gulf Cartel, La Familia Michoacana, and Knights Templar Cartel originally formed to expel the Los Zetas Cartel from the states of Michoacán and Jalisco.
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Lanzetta Brothers
The Lanzetta Brothers, also known as the Lanzetti Brothers due to an incorrect spelling used by newspapers, was a group of six brothers who ran bootlegging operations in Philadelphia and possibly Atlantic City.
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Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Lawrence Anini
Lawrence Nomanyagbon Anini (c. 1960 – March 29, 1987) was a Nigerian bandit who terrorised Benin City in the 1980s along with his sidekick, Monday Osunbor.
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Lawrence M. Salinger
Lawrence M. Salinger (January 7, 1958 in Bono — November 23, 2013 in Jonesboro) was a professor of criminology and sociology at Arkansas State University.
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Lazarat
Lazarat (Lazarati) is a village in Gjirokastër County, in southern Albania.
Lebanese mafia
Lebanese mafia is a colloquial term for organised crime groups which originate from Lebanon. Drug cartel and Lebanese mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Lee Murray
Lee Brahim Murray-Lamrani (born 12 November 1977) is an English-Moroccan mixed martial arts fighter and convicted bank robber.
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Lehi (militant group)
Lehi (לח"י – לוחמי חרות ישראל Lohamei Herut Israel – Lehi, "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel – Lehi", sometimes abbreviated "LHI"), often known pejoratively as the Stern Gang,"This group was known to its friends as LEHI and to its enemies as the Stern Gang." Blumberg, Arnold.
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Lenny McPherson
Leonard Arthur McPherson (born Balmain, New South Wales 19 May 1921; died Cessnock, New South Wales, 28 August 1996) was one of the most notorious and powerful Australian career criminals of the late 20th century.
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Leonard DiMaria
Leonard "Lenny" DiMaria (born 1941), also known as "Prateek" and "the Conductor", is an American mobster and underboss of the Gambino crime family of New York.
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Licciardi clan
The Licciardi clan is a powerful Neapolitan Camorra clan that operates in the remote areas of Naples, specifically in the Secondigliano district and its stronghold of Masseria Cardone. Drug cartel and Licciardi clan are transnational organized crime.
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Limerick feud
The Limerick feud is a feud between rival criminal gangs in Limerick City, Ireland.
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List of 'ndrine
The 'ndrina (plural: 'ndrine) is the basic unit in the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal organization from Calabria.
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List of Sicilian Mafia clans
Clans in the Sicilian Mafia are united under a Mandamento, led by a Capo madamento, that represents the clans' bosses to the Cupola.
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List of Sri Lankan mobsters
This is a list of some notable organized crime figures within the underworld of Sri Lanka.
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Ljubomir Magaš
Ljubomir Magaš (Љубомир Магаш; 27 May 1948 – 10 November 1986) was a Serbian amateur boxer, streetfighter and gangster.
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Lo Fu-chu
Lo Fu-chu (born 2 July 1943) is a former Taiwanese legislator and a self-described leader of the "Celestial Alliance" organized crime group.
Lo Hsing Han
Lo Hsing Han or Law Sit Han (လော်စစ်ဟန်,;; – July 6, 2013) was a Burmese businessman and drug trafficker.
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Lo Russo clan
The Lo Russo clan was a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating on its territory within the city of Naples, concentrated specifically in the area of Miano, whose control extended throughout numerous neighborhoods in the north of the city for more than three decades.
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Los Angeles crime family
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
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Los Ántrax
Los Ántrax is a large enforcer unit and hit squad for the Sinaloa Cartel, a major crime syndicate based in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
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Los Mexicles
Los Mexicles is a Mexican street gang based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
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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.
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Los Rastrojos
Los Rastrojos is a Colombian drug cartel and paramilitary group engaged in the Colombian armed conflict.
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Los Zetas
Los Zetas (Spanish for "The Zs") was a Mexican criminal syndicate, known as one of the most dangerous of Mexico's drug cartels. Drug cartel and Los Zetas are transnational organized crime.
Lubyanka Criminal Group
Lubyanka Criminal Group (Лубянская преступная группировка; also translated as The Gang from Lubyanka) is a book by Alexander Litvinenko about the alleged transformation of the Russian Security Services into a criminal and terrorist organization.
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Lucchese crime family
The Lucchese 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, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
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Lucchese crime family Brooklyn faction
The Lucchese crime family's Brooklyn faction is a group of Italian-American mobsters within the Lucchese crime family that control organized crime activities in the New York metropolitan area but are predominantly based out of Brooklyn and Staten Island.
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Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction
The Lucchese crime family's New Jersey faction, also known as the Jersey Crew,Carlo is a powerful crew within the Lucchese crime family.
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Lucien Rivard
Lucien Rivard (June 16, 1915 – February 3, 2002) was a Quebec criminal known for a sensational prison escape in 1965.
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Luen Group
Luen group is one of several organized crime groups of Hong Kong, known as triads.
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Luppino crime family
The Luppino crime family, also known as the Luppino-Violi crime family, is an 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based and founded in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in the 1950s by Giacomo Luppino.
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M. P. Jayaraj
Mysore Puttaswamaiah Jayaraj, known as M. P. Jayaraj (1944/1946–1989) was an Indian mafia gangster who operated in Bangalore during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Macedonian mafia
The Macedonian mafia (translit) is a body of illegal gangs and criminal organizations operating in North Macedonia and within the Macedonian diaspora. Drug cartel and Macedonian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Mafia
"Mafia" is an informal term that is used to describe criminal organizations that bear a strong similarity to the organized crime groups from Italy. Drug cartel and Mafia are transnational organized crime.
Mafia Capitale
The Mafia Capitale is the name given to an organized crime organization, and subsequent investigation, involving the government of the city of Rome, in which members stole money destined for city services and carried out other criminal activities such as racketeering, conspiracy, money laundering, illegal works, and bribery in the public administration.
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Mafia Raj
Mafia Raj refers to a criminalised 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 organisations).
Mai-Mai
The term Mai-Mai or Mayi-Mayi refers to any kind of community-based militia group active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that is formed to defend local communities and territory against other armed Rwandan groups that rape and committ genocide against congolese communities.
Mallardo clan
The Mallardo clan is a Camorra clan operating from the town of Giugliano in Campania, north of the city of Naples.
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Mamak Gang
The Mamak Gang is a notorious Malaysian gang that has been active since the early 1990s.
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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.
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Man Singh (dacoit)
Maan Singh (1890—1955), better known as Daaku Maan Singh, was a notorious Indian dacoit.
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Mandamento (Sicilian Mafia)
Within the Cosa Nostra, a mandamento is traditionally a district of three geographically contiguous Mafia cosche, which are families controlling a single land feud, or a city ward, in Sicily. Drug cartel and mandamento (Sicilian Mafia) are organized crime terminology.
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Manya Surve
Manohar Arjun “Manya” Surve (8 August 1944 – 11 January 1982), was an Indian criminal and gangster based in Mumbai.
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Marat Balagula
Marat Yakovlevich Balagula (Мара́т Я́ковлевич Балагула; 8 September 1943 – 19 December 2019) was a Russian-American organized crime figure, crime boss, and close associate of the Lucchese crime family and Colombo crime family.
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Marielitos (gangs)
Marielitos is the name given to the Cuban immigrants that left Cuba from the Port of Mariel in 1980.
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Mario Fabbrocino
Mario Fabbrocino (January 5, 1943 – April 23, 2019) was a powerful Italian crime boss of the Camorra – the Neapolitan mafia.
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Martin "Marlo" Hyland
Martin Hyland (1 September 1969 – 12 December 2006) was a major Irish criminal and gang boss.
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Martin Cahill
Martin Cahill (23 May 1949 – 18 August 1994) was an Irish crime boss from Dublin.
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Martin Foley
Martin "The Viper" Foley (born 24 November 1952) is an Irish criminal.
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Martinez Familia Sangeros
The Puerto Rican Mob/The Puerto Rican mafia, consists of 6 crime families, in the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico around the cities of San Juan, Aguadilla, Añasco and Isabela.
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Matsuba-kai
The, meaning "Pine Needle Society," is a yakuza organization based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Maurice Enright
Maurice "Mossy" or "Mossie" Enright (died February 2, 1920) was an Irish-American gangster and one of the earliest Chicago labor racketeers in the early 20th century.
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Maxim Lazovsky
Maxim Yuryevich Lazovsky (Макси́м Ю́рьевич Лазовский, nicknames "Max", "Lame"; July 31, 1965 – April 28, 2000) was a KGB and FSB officer who became involved in underground business.
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Mérida (state)
The State of Mérida commonly known simply as Mérida (Estado Bolivariano de Mérida) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela.
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McCarthy-Dundon
The McCarthy-Dundon's is a criminal gang based in Limerick City, Ireland.
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Medellín Cartel
The Medellín Cartel (Cártel 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. Drug cartel and Medellín Cartel are transnational organized crime.
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Mehmet Ali Yaprak
Mehmet Ali Yaprak (1949 in Nizip – 4 January 2004) was a Turkish businessman and drug trafficker, who was involved in the Susurluk scandal.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
Melvin Williams (actor)
Melvin Douglas "Little Melvin" Williams (December 14, 1941 – December 3, 2015) was an African-American actor, author, entrepreneur, public speaker, educator, community activist, gambler and reformed drug trafficker.
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Messina Brothers
The Messina Brothers were five brothers who led a criminal organisation in London from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Mexican Armed Forces
The Mexican Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas de México) are the military forces of the United Mexican States.
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Mexican Army
The Mexican Army (Ejército Mexicano) is the combined land and air branch and is the largest part of the Mexican Armed Forces; it is also known as the National Defense Army.
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Mexican drug war
The Mexican drug war (also known as the Mexican war on drugs;, shortened to and commonly known inside Mexico as the war against the narco) is an ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
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Mexican Navy
The Mexican Navy is one of the two independent armed forces of Mexico.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Mexico City International Airport
Mexico City International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México, AICM); officially Aeropuerto Internacional Benito Juárez (Benito Juárez International Airport) is the primary international airport serving Greater Mexico City.
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Miami Boys
The Miami Boys was a drug organization composed of a loose-knit group of African-American drug suppliers and dealers from south Florida (particularly Miami).
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Mickey Cohen
Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen (September 4, 1914 – July 29, 1976) was an American gangster based in Los Angeles and boss of the Cohen crime family during the mid-20th century.
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Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
Milwaukee crime family
The Milwaukee crime family, also known as the Balistrieri crime family or the Milwaukee Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Miri-Clan
The Miri clan is a Sunni Lebanese mafia group based in Germany.
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.
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Moe Dalitz
Morris Barney Dalitz (December 25, 1899 – August 31, 1989) was an American gangster, businessman, casino owner, and philanthropist.
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Mohamed Taieb Ahmed
Mohamed Taieb "El Nene" Ahmed (born in 1975 in Ceuta, Spain) is a Spanish-Moroccan drug lord responsible for trafficking hashish across the Strait of Gibraltar and into Spain.
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Money laundering
Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source.
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Mong Tai Army
The Mong Tai Army (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 Khun Sa.
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Montenegrin mafia
The Montenegrin mafia (Crnogorska mafija/Црногорска мафија) refers to the various criminal organizations based in Montenegro or composed of Montenegrins. Drug cartel and Montenegrin mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
Moran family
The Moran family is an infamous Melbourne, Australia-based criminal family"", Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2003.
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Morello crime family
The Morello crime family was one of the earliest crime families to be established in the United States and New York City.
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Moroccan mafia
The Moroccan mafia is a term that describes various criminal organisations that are primarily made up of people of Moroccan descent. Drug cartel and Moroccan mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Motisi Mafia clan
The Motisi Mafia clan is a historical Sicilian Mafia clan from the Pagliarelli area in Palermo.
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MS-13
Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, is an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1980s. Drug cartel and MS-13 are transnational organized crime.
Mukhtar Ansari
Mukhtar Ansari, (30 June 1963 – 28 March 2024) was an Indian gangster and a politician, based in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Mule (smuggling)
A mule or courier is someone who personally smuggles contraband across a border (as opposed to sending by mail, etc.) for a smuggling organization. Drug cartel and mule (smuggling) are smuggling.
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Mullen Gang
The Mullen Gang was an Irish-American gang operating in Boston.
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Multigroup
Multigroup was a business conglomerate in Bulgaria.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Mungiki
Mungiki is a banned ethnic organisation in Kenya.
Murder of Ilan Halimi
The murder of Ilan Halimi (אילן חלימי) was the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a young Frenchman of Moroccan Jewish ancestry in France in 2006.
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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 and was started by the Irish Mob, and included Italian-American Mafia, the Jewish Mob, and other criminal organizations in New York City and elsewhere.
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Musitano crime family
The Musitano crime family is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco and Bareggio in Northern Italy.
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Muthappa Rai
Nettala Muthappa Rai Derla (known as Muthappa Rai (M. R)) (died 15 May 2020) was an Indian underworld don, businessman, philanthropist and a social activist based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan) (متحدہ قومی موومنٹ (پاکستان) MQM-P) is a social liberal, Muhajir nationalist, and secularist political party.
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Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army
The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is an armed resistance group in the Kokang region of Myanmar (Burma).
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Naglite
Naglite (-lee-te) (Наглите), literally The Insolent Ones, was a Bulgarian criminal group involved in more than ten high-profile kidnappings in 2008–09.
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.
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Narcotics in Bolivia
Narcotics in Bolivia, South America, is a subject that primarily involves the coca crop, used in the production of the drug, cocaine.
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Nardong Putik
Leonardo Malihan Manicio (March 25, 1923 – October 10, 1971), better known through his alias Nardong Putik ("Nardo of the Mud"), was a Filipino gangster who mainly operated in the province of Cavite.
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Naserligan
Naserligan, also known as the Naser Gang, is a criminal organization primarily active in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Nathan Kaplan
"Kid Dropper" Nathan Caplin or Kaplan (August 3, 1891 – August 28, 1923), also known as Jack the Dropper, was an American gangster who controlled labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during the post-World War I period into the early years of Prohibition in the early 1920s.
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National Crime Syndicate
The National Crime Syndicate was a multi-ethnic, closely connected, American confederation of several criminal organizations.
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National Democratic Alliance Army
The National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) is an insurgent group in eastern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma).
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National Liberation Army (Colombia)
The National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN) is a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla insurgency group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict, Official Journal of the European Union.
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National Liberation Front of Corsica
The National Liberation Front of Corsica (Fronte di liberazione naziunale di a Corsica or Fronte di liberazione naziunale corsu; Front de libération nationale corse, abbreviated FLNC) is a name used by many militant groups that advocate an independent state on the island of Corsica, separate from France.
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Naw Kham
Sai Naw Kham (နော်ခမ်း; ၼေႃႇၶမ်း; also spelled Nor Kham; 8 November 1969 – 1 March 2013) was an ethnic Shan associate of the Chinese drug trafficker Khun Sa who operated in the Golden Triangle, a major drugs-smuggling area where the borders of Burma, Laos and Thailand converge.
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.
Necati Arabaci
Necati "Neco" Arabaci (born 14 February 1972) is a Turkish-German businessman, outlaw biker, gangster and high-ranking member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, who was formerly active in Cologne, Germany and now lives in Turkey.
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Nedim Imac
Nedim Imaç (born 1966 in The Hague - died February 17, 2007, in Amsterdam) was a Turkish-Dutch businessman and sports executive.
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New Orleans crime family
The New Orleans crime family, also known as the Marcello crime family or the New Orleans Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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New People's Army
The New People's Army (Bagong Hukbong Bayan), abbreviated NPA or BHB, is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
Nig Rosen
Harry Stromberg (–), known as Nig Rosen, was an American mobster who was a major organized crime figure on the East Coast with influence as far as Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.
No Limit Soldiers (organized crime group)
The No Limit Soldiers are an organized crime group and street gang from Curaçao.
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Norte del Valle Cartel
The Norte del Valle Cartel (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.
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Norteños
Norteños (Norteñas for females) are the various affiliated gangs that pay tribute to Nuestra Familia while in California state and federal correctional facilities.
North Coast Cartel
The North Coast Cartel (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 from other regions of Colombia and neighboring countries and local production.
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North Side Gang
The North Side Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was an Irish-American criminal organization within Chicago during the Prohibition era from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s.
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Nucky Johnson's Organization
Nucky Johnson's Organization was a corrupt political machine based in Atlantic City, New Jersey that held power during the Prohibition era.
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Nuestra Familia
Nuestra Familia (Spanish for "our family") is a criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California.
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Nuova Mala del Brenta
The Nuova Mala del Brenta (NMB), also known as New Brenta Mafia, is a criminal organization based in the Veneto region of Italy. The group is believed to have emerged in the late 1990s as a successor to the original Mala del Brenta, which was active in the area during the 1970s and 1980s. The criminal organization's structure is like a Cosa Nostra and Camorra model, but more violent.
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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 trafficking and operated in southern Mexico, particularly in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas.
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Obshchak
The obshchak (Russian), obštšak (Estonian spelling), or ühiskassa (Estonian) or "common treasury" is a traditional umbrella organisation of criminal groups in Estonia, a trade union of sorts that settles conflicts and establishes boundaries of the spheres of interest of various groups such as the Estonian mafia and Russian mafia.
Oficina de Envigado
La Oficina de Envigado (The Office of Envigado) is a drug cartel and criminal organization originally founded as an enforcement wing and debt collection service of Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel.
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Okinawa-Kyokuryū-kai
The is a yakuza criminal organization based on the Okinawa island of Japan.
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Ollie Quinn
Ollie Johnson Quinn (26 May 1893 – 23 August 1949) was a mob boss in Galveston, Texas in the United States, who was involved in bootlegging, illegal gambling, numbers racket, prostitution and other criminal activities from the 1910s up until the 1930s.
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Omid Tahvili
Omid Tahvili (امید تحویلی; born on 31 October 1970, in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Canadian sexual offender and kingpin of an organized crime family in Canada which is connected to various international crime organizations.
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Opium production in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has long had a history of opium poppy cultivation and harvest.
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Opium production in Myanmar
Opium production in Myanmar has historically been a major contributor to the country's gross domestic product (GDP).
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Orekhovskaya gang
The Orekhovskaya Organized Crime Group (Ореховская организованная преступная группировка) was a powerful criminal organization based in Moscow active between the late 1980s and early 2000s.
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Organised crime in India
Organised crime in India refers to organised crime elements originating in India and active in many parts of the world.
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Organised crime in Nigeria
Organised 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.
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Organised crime in Pakistan
Organized crime in Pakistan refers to the activities of groups of organized crime in Pakistan, The Pakistani mafia is spread in many countries.
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Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos
The Organizacion de Narcotraficantes Unidos (ONU, or La ONU) (in English: United Drug Traffickers), is a Puerto Rican criminal organization based in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
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Organized crime
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for profit.
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Organized crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Bosnian mafia (or Bosnian organized crime) is the body of illegal gangs and criminal organisations operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina and within the Bosnian diaspora. Drug cartel and organized crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina are transnational organized crime.
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Organized crime in France
Organized crime in France is primarily based in major cities like Marseille, Grenoble, Paris, and Lyon.
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Organized crime in Sweden
Although organized crime has always existed in Sweden, it has risen significantly in the 2000s.
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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. Drug cartel and Organized crime in the Netherlands are transnational organized crime.
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Original Gangsters (gang)
Original Gangsters (OGs) is a criminal gang in Sweden.
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Oscar Danilo Blandón
Oscar Danilo Blandón Reyes (born July 29, 1951) is a Nicaraguan born drug trafficker who is best known as one of the main subjects of the 1996 newspaper series "Dark Alliance" by reporter Gary Webb.
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Ostia (Rome)
Ostia (officially Lido di Ostia) is a large neighbourhood in the Municipio X of the comune of Rome, Italy, near the ancient port of Rome, which is now a major archaeological site known as Ostia Antica.
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Otari Kvantrishvili
Otari Kvantrishvili (ოთარ კვანტრიშვილი, Ота́ри Квантришвили; January 27, 1948 – April 5, 1994) was a Georgian mafia boss and one of Moscow's leading organised crime figures during the early 1990s.
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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 the Kingdom of Laos, during the 1960s.
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Ozone Park Boys
The Ozone Park Boys, also known as "Liberty Posse" and "The Young Guns", are a Gambino crime family Mafia crew based in Ozone Park, Queens.
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Paisa (region)
A Paisa is someone from a region in the northwest of Colombia, including part of the West and Central cordilleras of the Andes in Colombia.
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Pakistani Taliban
The Pakistani Taliban, formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani border.
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Papalia crime family
The Papalia crime family also known as Papalia 'ndrina, is a 'Ndrangheta organized crime family based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as well as Platì in Southern Italy and Buccinasco in Northern Italy.
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Pappu Kalani
Suresh Budharmal Kalani, known popularly as Pappu Kalani (born 1951) is an Indian criminal-politician from Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra.
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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 Mafia crime family operating in New England. The family consists of two distinct factions, one based in Providence, Rhode Island, and the other in Boston, Massachusetts.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Peoples' Aman Committee
The Peoples' Aman Committee (پیپلز امن کمیٹی) was an alleged militant group tied to the Pakistan People's Party and based in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Perestroika
Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.
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Pesce 'ndrina
The Pesce 'ndrina is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Pettingill family
The Pettingill family is a Melbourne-based criminal family,, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 23 June 2003 headed by matriarch Kath Pettingill.
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Philadelphia crime family
The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Bruno–Scarfo crime family, Joseph F. Sullivan, The New York Times (August 22, 1990) the Philadelphia–Atlantic City crime family, Margot Hornblower, The Washington Post (January 16, 1984) the Philadelphia Mafia, the Philly Mafia, or the Philadelphia–South Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia Greek Mob
Philadelphia 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 and the Greek Velentzas crime family of New York city.
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Phoolan Devi
Phoolan Devi (10 August 1963 25 July 2001), popularly known as the Bandit Queen, was an Indian dacoit (bandit) who became a politician, serving as a member of parliament until her assassination.
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Ping On
The Ping On (l) was a Boston-based criminal organization.
Pink Panthers
The Pink Panthers are an international jewel thief network responsible for a number of robberies and thefts described as some of the most audacious in the history of organized crime.
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Piromalli 'ndrina
The Piromalli 'ndrina is one of the most powerful clans of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Pittsburgh crime family
The Pittsburgh crime family,Capeci, also known as the LaRocca crime familyOrganized Crime in Pennsylvania: Traditional and Non-Traditional.
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Police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state with the aim of enforcing the law and protecting the public order as well as the public itself.
Polish-American organized crime
Polish-American organized crime has existed in the United States throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Polverino clan
The Polverino clan is a Neapolitan Camorra clan operating in the town of Marano di Napoli.
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Primeiro Comando da Capital
The Primeiro Comando da Capital ("Capital's First Command",, PCC) is a Brazilian organized crime syndicate. Drug cartel and Primeiro Comando da Capital are drug cartels.
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Princ Dobroshi
Princ Dobroshi (born 2 April 1964 in Peja, KS Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Kosovo Albanian crime boss, formerly active in Europe in the 1990s dealing with drug trafficking and arms smuggling to the Kosovo Liberation Army.
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Prohibition in the United States
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Pruszków mafia
The Pruszków Mafia (Polish: Mafia pruszkowska or gang pruszkowski) was a Polish criminal organization originating from Pruszków in the 1990s and one of the most infamous in the country's modern history.
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Puerto Rico
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Quality Street Gang
The Quality Street Gang operated in Manchester, England, in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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Quirino Paulino
Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, a.k.a. "el Don" (born 8 September 1960 in Comendador, Elías Piña Province) is an ex-captain of the army of the Dominican Republic, and alleged boss of a drug-trafficking organization responsible for importing tons of cocaine into the United States since September 2003.
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Rade Kotur
Rade Kotur (born c. 1952) is a Bosnian Serb living in Sweden, where he has run a gambling empire and been involved in organized crime.
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Radovan Krejčíř
Radovan Krejčíř (born 4 November 1968) is a Czech former organized crime boss and convicted criminal who is serving a prison term in South Africa and is being sought for extradition by the Czech government.
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Ragen's Colts
Ragen's Colts was a chiefly Irish street gang which dominated the Chicago underworld during the early twentieth century.
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Ramiz Delalić
Ramiz Delalić (15 February 196327 June 2007), widely known by his nickname Ćelo (The word means "baldy" - a common nickname in Sarajevo for criminals, because their heads were shaven during their time spent in prison), was a Bosnian organized crime figure, war criminal and commander of the 9th Mountain Brigade in Sarajevo.
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Rampart scandal
The Rampart scandal was a police corruption scandal which unfolded in Los Angeles, California, United States, during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Rathkeale Rovers
The Rathkeale Rovers are a group of criminals based in Ireland but operating internationally. Drug cartel and Rathkeale Rovers are transnational organized crime.
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Ratko Đokić
Ratko "Cobra" Đokić (Paткo Ђокић; died 2003) was a Montenegrin-Swedish mob boss, a leader of the so-called "Yugo Mafia" or Yugoslavian Brotherhood, composed of Yugoslavs in Sweden.
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Rayful Edmond
Rayful Edmond III (born November 26, 1964) is an American former drug trafficker in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s.
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Raymond Márquez
Raymond Márquez (born 1930), a.k.a. "Spanish Raymond", is an American criminal.
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Razor gang
Razor gangs were criminal gangs who dominated the Sydney crime scene in the 1920s.
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Rédoine Faïd
Rédoine Faïd (born 10 May 1972) is a French gangster and serial jailbreaker, considered France's most wanted criminal in 2013.
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Reconnaissance
In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.
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Red Scorpions
The Red Scorpions is a gang based in British Columbia, Canada.
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Red Wa
The Red Wa is the most powerful organized crime gang in Thailand. Drug cartel and Red Wa are transnational organized crime.
Rettendon murders
The Rettendon murders (also known as the Range Rover murders or Essex murders) occurred on 6 December 1995 in the village of Rettendon in Essex, England, when three drug dealers were shot dead in a Range Rover on a small farm track.
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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People's Army (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de ColombiaEjército del Pueblo, FARC–EP or FARC) is a Marxist–Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict starting in 1964.
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Richard Blass
Richard Blass (24 October 1945 – 24 January 1975) was a Canadian gangster and a multiple murderer.
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Richardson Gang
The Richardson Gang was an English crime gang based in South London, England in the 1960s.
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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.
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Rivalry
A rivalry is the state of two people or groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship.
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.
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Rocco Perri
Rocco Perri (born Rocco Perre; December 30, 1887 – disappeared April 23, 1944) was an Italian-born organized crime figure in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Rochester crime family
The Rochester crime family, also known as the Valenti crime family or the Rochester Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Rochester, New York that was part of the American ''Cosa Nostra''.
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Roger Khan
Shaheed "Roger" Khan (born 13 January 1972) is a Guyanese criminal who was active in drugs trafficking, money laundering and arms smuggling.
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Roger Touhy
Roger Touhy (September 18, 1898 – December 16, 1959) was an Irish American mob boss and prohibition-era Chicago bootlegger.
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Rolando Florián Féliz
Rolando Florián Feliz (died 16 May 2009) was considered the most dangerous drug trafficker ever convicted in the Dominican Republic, held in Najayo Penitentiary’s maximum security facility since May 1996.
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Romani people
The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.
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Romanian mafia
The Romanian mafia or Romanian organized crime (Mafia Românească) is the category of organized crime groups whose members are citizens of Romania or living abroad in the Romanian diaspora. Drug cartel and Romanian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Rome Fiumicino Airport
Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport (Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Roma–Fiumicino) is an international airport in Fiumicino, Italy, serving Rome.
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Rovshan Janiyev
Rovshan Janiyev (Lankaransky) (Rövşən Rafiq oğlu Canıyev, Ровшан Рафик оглы Джаниев; 27 January 1975 – 18 August 2016), also known as Rovshan Lankaransky (Rövşən Lənkəranski, Ровшан Ленкоранский), was an Azerbaijani gangster of Talysh descent.
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Roy DeMeo
Roy Albert DeMeo (September 7, 1940 – January 10, 1983) was an American mobster in the Gambino crime family in New York City.
Rudaj Organization
The Rudaj Organization was an Albanian mafia gang in the New York City metro area, named for the man accused of being its kingpin, Alex Rudaj of Yorktown, New York.
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Ruslan Labazanov
Ruslan Khamidovich Labazanov (1967 – disappeared 1 June 1996) was a pro-Russian Chechen mob boss turned warlord who led the Russian-supported Chechen anti-Dzhokhar Dudayev faction in the First Chechen War.
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Russian mafia
The Russian mafia, otherwise referred to as Bratva, is a collective of various organized crime related elements originating in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Drug cartel and Russian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Rysbek Akmatbayev
Rysbek Abdymalikovich Akmatbayev (Рысбек Абдымаликович Акматбаев; 6 July 1960 – 10 May 2006) was a Kyrgyz businessman, politician and alleged criminal leader.
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Sacra Corona Unita
i (United Sacred Crown; acronym: SCU), also known as the Fourth Mafia, is a Mafia-type criminal organization from the Apulia region in Southern Italy, and it is especially active in the areas of Brindisi, Lecce, and Taranto. Drug cartel and Sacra Corona Unita are transnational organized crime.
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Sakaume-gumi
The is a yakuza organization based in Osaka, Japan.
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Sales
Sales are activities related to selling or the number of goods sold in a given targeted time period.
Sam Cardinelli
Samuele Cardinelli (born Salvatore Cardinella; September 3, 1869 - Apr 15, 1921) was an American mobster, extortionist, and leader of Cardinelli Gang of Chicago during the 1920s.
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San Francisco crime family
The San Francisco crime family, also known as the Lanza crime family or the San Francisco Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in San Francisco, California.
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San Jose crime family
The San Jose crime family, also known as the Cerrito crime family or the San Jose Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in San Jose, California.
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Santa Cruz Cartel
The Santa Cruz Cartel (Cártel de Santa Cruz) is a Bolivian drug cartel and criminal organization, said to be one of the largest in the country, headquartered in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Drug cartel and Santa Cruz Cartel are transnational organized crime.
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Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel
The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (Cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima) or CSRL is a Mexican criminal organization from the state of Guanajuato.
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Santiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez
Santiago Luis Polanco-Rodríguez (born June 16, 1961) is a Dominican American former drug dealer considered to be the first mass marketer of crack cocaine in United States.
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Söylemez Gang
The Söylemez Gang was an organized crime organization in Turkey headed by Faysal Söylemez and five of his brothers, which was involved in drug smuggling, kidnapping, and murder.
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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.
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Secondigliano Alliance
The Secondigliano Alliance (Italian: Alleanza di Secondigliano) is a strategic alliance of Camorra clans in Naples, Italy and its hinterland which controls drug trafficking and the extortion racket in many areas of Naples since the 1990s. Drug cartel and Secondigliano Alliance are transnational organized crime.
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Secret societies in Singapore
Secret societies in Singapore have been largely eradicated as a security issue in the city-state.
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Security Insurance Company
Security Insurance Company (SIC) was a security and insurance company in Bulgaria.
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Semion Mogilevich
Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich (Semén Yúdkovych Mohylévych; born June 30, 1946) is a Jewish Ukrainian-born Russian organized crime boss. Drug cartel and Semion Mogilevich are transnational organized crime.
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Serb mafia in Scandinavia
The Serbian-Montenegrin mafia in Scandinavia, also known as "Juggemaffian" ("Yugo Mafia") is an organized crime group in Sweden and Denmark.
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Serbian mafia
The Serbian mafia (Cpпска мафија / Srpska mafija), or Serbian organized crime, are various criminal organizations based in Serbia or composed of ethnic Serbs in the former Yugoslavia and Serbian diaspora. Drug cartel and Serbian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Sergei Magnitsky
Sergei Leonidovich Magnitsky (Сергeй Леонидович Магнитский,; Сергій Леонідович Магнітський; 8 April 1972 – 16 November 2009) was a Russian lawyer and tax advisor responsible for exposing corruption and misconduct by Russian government officials while representing client Hermitage Capital Management.
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Sergiu Băhăian
Sergiu Băhăian Vasile Negrila is a Romanian businessman, convicted fraudster, and Romanian prosecutors allege, the leader of a criminal organization responsible for the killing of at least four people.
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Serraino 'ndrina
The Serraino 'ndrina (also known as Serraino-Di Giovine 'ndrina) is a clan of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy.
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Service d'Action Civique
The SAC (Service d'Action Civique; or Civic Action Service), officially created in January 1960, was a Gaullist militia founded by Jacques Foccart, Charles de Gaulle's chief adviser for African matters, and, a former Resistant and official director of the group.
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Shapiro Brothers
Meyer (1908–1931), Irving (1904–1931) and Willie Shapiro (1911–1934), collectively known as the Shapiro Brothers, were the leaders of a group of Jewish-American mobsters from New York City and based in Williamsburg.
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Sheldon Gang
The Sheldon Gang was a Chicago criminal gang during the early years of Prohibition known for being the main rivals of the Saltis-McErlane Gang and the Southside O'Donnell Brothers.
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Shelton Brothers Gang
The Shelton Brothers Gang was an early Prohibition-era bootlegging gang based in southern Illinois.
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Shinwa-kai
The is a yakuza group based in Takamatsu, Kagawa on Shikoku, Japan.
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Shinwa-kai (Sumiyoshi-ikka)
The Shinwa-kai (親和会 "Brotherhood Association") in the Sumiyoshi-ikka, is a yakuza gang based in Tochigi-shi, Tochigi, Japan.
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Shower Posse
Shower Posse is a Jamaican gang, started by Lester Lloyd Coke, which is involved in drug and arms smuggling. Drug cartel and Shower Posse are transnational organized crime.
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Shui Fong
Shui Fong, also known as the Wo On Lok (WOL), is one of the main Triad groups in Southern China, operating especially in Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese communities abroad. Drug cartel and Shui Fong are transnational organized crime.
Sicilian Mafia
The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra ("our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is a criminal society originating on the island of Sicily and dates back to the mid-19th century. Drug cartel and Sicilian Mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Sicilian Mafia Commission
The Sicilian Mafia Commission (Italian: Commissione provinciale), known as Commissione or Cupola, is a body of leading Sicilian Mafia members who decide on important questions concerning the actions of, and settling disputes within the Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra.
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Siderno Group
The Siderno Group is a criminal association in Canada, Australia and Italy related to the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organization in Calabria.
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Sigue Sigue Sputnik (gang)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik is a Filipino street gang.
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Sinaloa Cartel
The Sinaloa Cartel (Cártel de Sinaloa, CDS, after the native Sinaloa region), also known as the Guzmán-Zambada Organization, the Federation, the Blood Alliance, or the Pacific Cartel, is a large, international organized crime syndicate based in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico that specializes in illegal drug trafficking and money laundering. Drug cartel and Sinaloa Cartel are transnational organized crime.
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Sio Sam Ong
Sio Sam Ong (Chinese: 小三王), literally meaning "Three Little Kings", or SSO, for short, is a leading Chinese triad in Malaysia; with a strong presence in the north (i.e. Kedah, Perlis).
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Slovak mafia
The Slovak mafia constitutes various organized crime groups in Slovakia, controlled primarily by Slovak interests.
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Soai-kai
The is a yakuza organization based in Chiba, Japan.
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 the Società Foggiana split), is a mafia-type Italian organized criminal organization and criminal society operating in a large part of the Province of Foggia, including the city of Foggia itself, and having significant infiltrations also in other Italian regions.
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Solntsevskaya Bratva
The Solntsevskaya Organized Crime Group (Солнцевская организованная преступная группировка), also known as the Solntsevskaya Bratva (Солнцевская братва), is a Russian crime syndicate group. Drug cartel and Solntsevskaya Bratva are transnational organized crime.
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Sonora Cartel
The Sonora Cartel, also known as Caro Quintero Organization, was a Mexico based criminal cartel. Drug cartel and Sonora Cartel are transnational organized crime.
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South Pacific Cartel
The South Pacific Cartel (Spanish: Cártel del Pacífico Sur) is a Mexican organized crime group composed of the remnants of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Special Purpose Islamic Regiment
The Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (Исламский полк особого назначения; abbreviated SPIR), also known as the al-Jihad-Fi-Sabililah Special Islamic Regiment, was a Chechen organization loosely formed by Chechen warlord Arbi Barayev in 1996.
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Squizzy Taylor
Joseph Theodore Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor (29 June 1888 – 27 October 1927) was an Australian gangster from Melbourne.
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Sreten Jocić
Sreten Jocić (Сретен Јоцић; born 24 October 1962), also known as Joca Amsterdam (Јоца Амстердам), is a Serbian gangster from Velika Krsna who operated in the Netherlands.
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St. Louis crime family
The St.
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Stefan Eriksson
Bo Stefan M. Eriksson (born December 14, 1961) is a Swedish video game developer and criminal from Uppsala involved in the British gaming company Gizmondo with his business partner Carl Freer, until it became insolvent in 2005.
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Stephanie St. Clair
Stephanie St.
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Stidda
The paren) is a Sicilian and Maltese Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society centered in the central-southern part of Sicily and Malta. Members are known as stiddari or stiddaroli. It is most active in the rural parts of southern Sicily and Malta and is a rival to the Cosa Nostra, originating as a dissident offshoot group of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.
Suishin-kai
The Suishin-kai was a Japanese yakuza gang based in Nagasaki.
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Sumiyoshi-ikka
The Sumiyoshi-ikka (住吉一家 "Sumiyoshi Family") is an affiliate of the Sumiyoshi-kai yakuza syndicate, based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Sumiyoshi-kai
The, sometimes referred to as the, is the second-largest yakuza group in Japan with an estimated 2,200 members.
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Sun Yee On
Sun Yee On (t), or the New Righteousness and Peace Commercial and Industrial Guild, is one of the leading triads in Hong Kong and China.
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Supply (economics)
In economics, supply is the amount of a resource that firms, producers, labourers, providers of financial assets, or other economic agents are willing and able to provide to the marketplace or to an individual.
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Supreme Team (gang)
The Supreme Team was an organized crime syndicate that operated throughout the 1980s in New York City.
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Sureños
Sureños (Spanish for Southerners), also known as Southern United Raza, Sur 13 or Sureños X3, are groups of loosely affiliated gangs that pay tribute to the Mexican Mafia while in U.S. state and federal correctional facilities.
Suriname
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.
Taishu-kai
The is a yakuza organization based in Fukuoka Prefecture on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 70 active members.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
Takumi-gumi
The Second Takumi-gumi is a Japanese yakuza syndicate.
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Taliban
The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.
Tam McGraw
Thomas "Tam" McGraw (19 February 1952 – 30 July 2007), also known as "The Licensee" or "Wan-Baw McGraw", was a gangster involved in organised crime including extortion and drug trafficking in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Tambovskaya Bratva
The Tambovskaya Bratva is a large gang in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Drug cartel and Tambovskaya Bratva are transnational organized crime.
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Tariel Oniani
Tariel Oniani (ტარიელ ონიანი; born 1952) is a Georgian mafia boss and 'Thief in law'.
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Teng Bunma
Teng Bunma 許銳騰 (ថេង ប៊ុនម៉ា; 1941 – 17 June 2016), also written as Teng Boonma, Theng Boonma, and Theng Bunma, was one of the wealthiest businessmen in Cambodia.
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Terceiro Comando
Terceiro Comando (Portuguese for Third Command) was a Brazilian criminal organization engaged in drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro.
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Terceiro Comando Puro
Terceiro Comando Puro is a Brazilian criminal organization in Rio de Janeiro.
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The Carlton Crew
The Carlton Crew is a criminal organisation based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, was established and formed in 1970 and possibly earlier by the mid 1960s by the first Carlton crew boss Gino Rosace and he named it after the Melbourne suburb in which it is based, Lygon Street, Carlton, commonly called "Little Italy".
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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.
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The Commission (American Mafia)
The Commission is the governing body of the American Mafia, formed in 1931 by Charles "Lucky" Luciano following the Castellammarese War.
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The Company (Hawaiian organized crime)
The Company, also called the Hawaiian Syndicate, is the name given to an organized crime syndicate based in Hawaii that controlled criminal activities in the state from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s.
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The Council (drug syndicate)
The Council was an African-American organized crime syndicate in New York City that controlled the heroin trade in the Harlem area of the city during the 1970s.
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The Family (American crime organization)
The Family was an organized crime group known for drug trafficking.
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The Flathead gang
The Flathead Gang, also known as The Flatheads, was a group of bank robbers.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Zealand Herald
The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.
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The Pennsylvania Gazette
The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States' most prominent newspapers from 1728 until 1800.
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The Purple Gang
The Purple Gang, also known as the Sugar House Gang, was a criminal mob of bootleggers and hijackers composed predominantly of Jewish gangsters.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The Westies (Irish gang)
The Westies was the name given by the Irish media to a criminal gang based in Blanchardstown, west Dublin, Ireland.
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Theodore Roe
Theodore L. "Teddy" Roe (August 26, 1898August 4, 1952) was an African-American organized crime figure who led an illegal gambling empire in South Side, Chicago during the 1940s and early 1950s.
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Thomas Cacciopoli
Thomas Cacciopoli (born September 5, 1949), also known as Tommy Sneakers and Cacci, is an American member of the Gambino crime family, holding the rank of caporegime in the Queens, New Jersey, and Westchester faction of the family.
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Thor Halvorssen Hellum (May 16, 1943 – July 20, 2014) was a Venezuelan-Norwegian businessman who was CEO and President of the Venezuelan state-owned telephone company CANTV, and later was "special commissioner for international narcotic affairs" in the administration of President Carlos Andrés Pérez, holding the rank of Ambassador.
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Three Whales Corruption Scandal
The Three Whales Corruption Scandal is a major corruption scandal in Russia involving several furniture companies and federal government bodies, which has unfolded since 2000. Drug cartel and Three Whales Corruption Scandal are smuggling.
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Tiandihui
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 ancestral organization.
Tijuana Cartel
The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana) or Arellano-Félix-Cartel (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix, CAF) is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Drug cartel and Tijuana Cartel are transnational organized crime.
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TIM (Bulgaria)
TIM is an organized crime syndicate incorporated as a holding company based in Varna, Bulgaria.
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Toa-kai
The is a yakuza syndicate based in Tokyo with a predominantly Zainichi Korean membership.
Tom Dennison (political boss)
Tom Dennison, known as Pickhandle or Old Grey Wolf, (October 26, 1858 – February 14, 1934) was an American political boss and racketeer in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Tong (organization)
A tongChin, Ko-lin. Drug cartel and tong (organization) are transnational organized crime.
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Tonton Macoute
The Tonton Macoute (Tonton Makout) or simply the Macoute, was a Haitian paramilitary and secret police force created in 1959 by dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
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Toomas Helin
Toomas Helin (born 25 April 1966 in Pärnu - died 27 January 2021) was an Estonian drug smuggler.
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Tottenham Mandem
The Tottenham Mandem (also Tottenham Man Dem, TMD, or Man Dem Crew, formerly known as Frontliners or Tottenham Boys) were an organised street gang based in Tottenham, North London, that began on the Broadwater Farm estate prior to the Broadwater Farm riot in 1985.
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Trafficante crime family
The Trafficante crime family, also known as the Tampa crime family or the Tampa Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Tampa, Florida.
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Triad (organized crime)
A triad is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations. Drug cartel and triad (organized crime) are transnational organized crime.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Turkish mafia
Turkish mafia (Türk mafyası) is the general term for criminal organizations based in Turkey and/or composed of (former) Turkish citizens. Drug cartel and Turkish mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Turkish organised crime in Great Britain
Turkish organised crime in Britain has been prevalent in the country since the early 90s when the Arifs controlled London's underworld for a brief time.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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Ukrainian mafia
The Ukrainian mafia (Ukrainian: Українська мафія) is a collective of various organized crime related elements originating in Ukraine. Drug cartel and Ukrainian mafia are transnational organized crime.
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Unione Corse
The Unione Corse is a term designating the Corsican organized crime as a whole during the period 1930s–1970s, in the context of the French Connection, an international heroin trade network operated at that time between Turkey, Southern France, and the United States.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations (gang)
The United Nations (UN) is a criminal gang that originated in the Vancouver, British Columbia area.
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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna, adopting the current name in 2002.
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United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
The United Self-Defenders 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 from 1997 to 2006.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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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 States.
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United Wa State Army
The United Wa State Army (Parauk: Kru' Naing' Rob Rom' Hak Tiex Praog,; 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 ruling party of Wa State (officially known as the Wa Self-Administered Division) in Myanmar.
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Uralmash gang
The Uralmash gang (Уралмашевская группировка) was a Russian mafia crime syndicate based in the city of Yekaterinburg.
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Uzair Baloch
Uzair Jan Baloch (Urdu/عزیر جان بلوچ) is a Pakistani gangster and former crime lord originally from Karachi, Pakistan.
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Valley Gang
The Valley Gang was an Irish-American street gang in Chicago, Illinois during the early 20th century, which ultimately made the transition to organized crime and became a de facto extension of the Chicago Outfit under Al Capone.
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Vannie Higgins
Charles "Vannie" Higgins (1897 – June 19, 1932) was a New York mobster and one of the most prominent bootleggers during the Prohibition era.
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Varadarajan Mudaliar
Sathuvachari Varadarajan Mudaliar (9 October 1926 – 2 January 1988), also known as Vardhabhai and Vardha, was an Indian crime boss.
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Vasil Iliev Security
Vasil Iliev Security, or VIS, was a criminal organization in Bulgaria dealing in extortion, car theft, drug trafficking and more.
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Veerappan
Koose Munusamy Veerappan(Tamil-வீரப்பன்) (18 January 1952 – 18 October 2004) was an Indian poacher, smuggler, domestic terrorist and bandit who was active for 36 years, and kidnapped major politicians for ransom.
Velentzas Organization
The Velentzas Organization, also known as the Velentzas crime family, or the Greek crew is a Greek-American criminal organization operating in the New York City area.
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Veszprém stabbing
In the Veszprém stabbing of 8 February 2009, a group of Romani people stabbed three members of the MKB Veszprém handball team in a bar in Veszprém, Hungary.
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Vice (magazine)
Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.
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Vitali Dyomochka
Vitali Yevgenyevich Dyomochka (Russian: Вита́лий Евге́ньевич Дёмочка; born 5 December 1970), also known as Bondar, is a Russian director, writer, and actor.
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Vladimiro Montesinos
Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres (born May 20, 1945) is a Peruvian former intelligence officer and lawyer, most notorious for his role as the head of Peru's National Intelligence Service (SIN) during the presidency of Alberto Fujimori.
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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.
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Vyacheslav Ivankov
Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (Вячесла́в Кири́ллович Иванько́в; 2 January 1940 – 9 October 2009) was a Russian mafia boss and thief in law who was believed to have connections with Russian state intelligence organizations and their organized crime partners.
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Wah Kee
Wah Kee (华记) is a secret society based in Malaysia and Singapore since the nineteenth century.
Walter Douglas
Walter Douglas (born 1961) is an alleged Scottish drug trafficker and organised crime figure, dubbed the Tartan Pimpernel by the press, who is reportedly one of the richest in the United Kingdom with an estimated worth of £20 million.
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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.
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West End Gang
The West End Gang (Gang de l'ouest) is a Canadian organized crime group in Montreal, Quebec.
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Westies
The Westies were a New York City-based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing.
White Hand Gang
The White Hand Gang was a collection of various Irish American gangs on the New York City, Brooklyn, and Red Hook waterfronts from the early 1900s to 1925 who organized against the growing influence of Italian gangsters.
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Whitney gang
The Whitney gang were a notorious family gang from the Anfield district of Liverpool.
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Wilber Varela
Wilber Alirio Varela Fajardo (November 6, 1957 – 2008), also known as Jabón ("Soap"), was a Colombian drug trafficker.
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Willem Holleeder
Willem Frederik Holleeder (born 29 May 1958) is a Dutch gangster, outlaw biker and convicted criminal.
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Winter Hill Gang
The Winter Hill Gang was a loose confederation of organized crime figures in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.
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Wo Hop To
Wo Hop To, or WHT, is a triad group based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
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. Drug cartel and wo Shing Wo are transnational organized crime.
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Wonderland Gang
The Wonderland Gang was a group of drug dealers involved in the Los Angeles cocaine trade during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their home base was located on Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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Xã Hội Đen
Xã hội đen, (chữ Nôm: 社會顛, literally means "black societies"), is a Vietnamese term used to describe criminal underworld.
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Yaakov Alperon
Yaakov Alperon (יעקב אלפרון; February 18, 1955 – November 17, 2008) was an Israeli mobster, head of the Alperon criminal family, which became one of the largest organized crime syndicates in Israel, until his assassination by car bomb in 2008.
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Yakuza
, also known as, are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. Drug cartel and Yakuza are transnational organized crime.
Yamaguchi-gumi
is Japan's largest yakuza organization. Drug cartel and Yamaguchi-gumi are transnational organized crime.
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Yamaken-gumi
is a yakuza gang based in Kobe, Japan.
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Yamano-kai
The Third was a yakuza group based in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan.
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Yardie
Yardie (or Yaadi/Yawdie) is a term often used, particularly within the Caribbean expatriate and Jamaican diaspora, to refer to people of Jamaican origin, though its exact meaning changes depending on context. Drug cartel and Yardie are transnational organized crime.
Yüksekova Gang
The Yüksekova Gang was an illegal organization in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari Province accused of killing 16 people, with apparent links to the Turkish Gendarmerie's JITEM unit and possible links to the Ergenekon organization.
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Yiddish Black Hand
The Yiddish Black Hand or the Jewish Black Hand Association was a criminal organization and extortion ring that operated on New York's Lower East Side during the early 20th century, led by Jacob "Johnny" Levinsky.
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Young Boys Inc.
Young Boys Incorporated, also known as Y.B.I., was a major drug organization in Detroit, Michigan, who were among the first African American drug cartels to operate on inner-city street corners.
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Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but relatedNaimark (2003), p. xvii.
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Zeev Rosenstein
Zeev Rosenstein (זאב רוזנשטיין; born 1954) is an infamous Israeli drug trafficker.
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Zemun Clan
The Zemun Clan (Zemunski klan) is one of the Belgrade clans of the Serbian mafia.
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Zoe Pound
Zoe Pound is a criminal street gang based in Miami, Florida founded by Haitian immigrants in 1990.
116th Street Crew
The 116th Street Crew, August 28, 1990.
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14K (triad)
The 14K (十四K) is a triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally.
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2011 Bulgaria antiziganist protests
The 2011 Bulgaria antiziganist (anti-Gypsy) protests started during the night of 23 to 24 September 2011 in the village Katunitsa and later spread to other locations all over the country, including Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna, Burgas, Pleven, Ruse, Pazardzhik, Stara Zagora and others.
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5T (gang)
5T was a Vietnamese crime gang active in the Cabramatta area of Sydney, Australia in the final two decades of the 20th century.
See also
Drug cartels
- Cachiros
- Drug cartel
- Drug lord
- Drug trafficking organizations
- Kinahan Organised Crime Group
- Narcoparamilitary
- Primeiro Comando da Capital
- Sam Gor
Illegal drug trade
- 1-(2-Chloro-N-methylbenzimidoyl)cyclopentanol
- Anna Wood (born 1980)
- Baker (military code-name)
- CIA drug trafficking allegations
- Capital punishment for drug trafficking
- Centre de Coordination de la Lutte Anti-drogue en Méditerranée
- Clandestine chemistry
- Cocaine trafficking
- Counterfeit illegal drug selling
- Darknet market
- Darknet markets
- Death of Leah Betts
- Drug Court of New South Wales
- Drug cartel
- Drug cartels
- Drug corridor
- Drug diversion
- Drug house
- Drug lord
- Drug traffickers
- Drug trafficking organizations
- Execution of Carey Dean Moore
- Fenethylline
- Illegal drug trade
- Isopropylbenzylamine
- Lagaren (ship)
- Moonshine
- Narco-state
- Narcoguerrilla
- Narcoterrorism
- Opium Wars
- Politics of drug abuse
- Precursor chemicals
- Rachel Whitear
- Rolling meth lab
- Russian darknet market conflict
- World Drug Report
Organized crime groups
- Crime families
- Dödspatrullen
- Drug cartel
- Drug cartels
- Gangs
Organized crime terminology
- 'Ndrina
- Blat (favors)
- Camera di Controllo
- Capo dei capi
- Capobastone
- Capocrimine
- Capodecina
- Cosca
- Crime boss
- Crime family
- Crimine
- Drug cartel
- Glossary of Mafia-related words
- Kiss of death (mafia)
- La Santa
- Locale ('Ndrangheta)
- Lupara
- Lupara bianca
- Mandamento (Sicilian Mafia)
- Mustache Pete
- Narco-saint
- No-show job
- Offshore bank
- Omertà
- Pizzino
- Pizzo (mafia)
- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
- Sin City (description)
- Vangelo
- Witness protection
- Yubitsume
- Zips
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_cartel
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(political boss), Tong (organization), Tonton Macoute, Toomas Helin, Tottenham Mandem, Trafficante crime family, Triad (organized crime), Trinidad and Tobago, Turkish mafia, Turkish organised crime in Great Britain, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Ukrainian mafia, Unione Corse, United Nations, United Nations (gang), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, United States, United States Department of Justice, United Wa State Army, Uralmash gang, Uzair Baloch, Valley Gang, Vannie Higgins, Varadarajan Mudaliar, Vasil Iliev Security, Veerappan, Velentzas Organization, Veszprém stabbing, Vice (magazine), Vitali Dyomochka, Vladimiro Montesinos, Vollaro clan, Vyacheslav Ivankov, Wah Kee, Walter Douglas, Waray-Waray gangs, West End Gang, Westies, White Hand Gang, Whitney gang, Wilber Varela, Willem Holleeder, Winter Hill Gang, Wo Hop To, Wo Shing Wo, Wonderland Gang, Xã Hội Đen, Yaakov Alperon, Yakuza, Yamaguchi-gumi, Yamaken-gumi, Yamano-kai, Yardie, Yüksekova Gang, Yiddish Black Hand, Young Boys Inc., Yugoslav Wars, Zeev Rosenstein, Zemun Clan, Zoe Pound, 116th Street Crew, 14K (triad), 2011 Bulgaria antiziganist protests, 5T (gang).