Top 10 largest mafias in the world

The Russian mafia is in first place in the top ten most powerful mafias in the world, according to the rating of the London Daily News and the Spanish Diario. The criteria for getting into the "top ten" of the strongest mafias in the world were participation in organized crime in many countries, illegal activities - arms trafficking, drugs, and so on.

10. Jamaican-British mafia (Yardies gang)

In tenth place are immigrants from Jamaica in Britain who moved to England in the 50s. This ethnic group controls a fair share of arms and drug trafficking operations. This mafia does not try to infiltrate government structures, therefore it is not as strong as the rest. The British police are hesitant to classify Yardie gangs as organized crime because they have no real structure or central leadership.

Albania is made up of numerous criminal gangs. Their rules have remained unchanged since the 15th century ... participates in the trade in white slaves, alcohol and tobacco, controls prostitution, car theft and racketeering. She began her "activities" in the 80s of the last century. Widely represented in the US and UK. A distinctive feature is the cruelty used in revenge actions.

She has found her place in the ranks of the leaders, as she works in dozens of countries around the world and is associated with drug smuggling, contract killings, racketeering, robberies, control of rates and gambling houses. Interpol lists about 350 Serbian citizens, who are often employees and leaders of the largest drug cartels in the world. Serbian gangsters are also known for intellectual heists, which often play out Hollywood scenarios, as well as quick and clean executions. Currently there are about 30-40 groups working in Serbia.

These work in the field of banditry in many countries, the main occupation is drug trafficking and prostitution. Times have changed, and if earlier they were once looked at with reverence because of their ability to protect, today it is not long thinking before pulling the trigger.

The mafia has become so entrenched in the US political system that even the vaunted American army is not able to knock them out of there.

- a powerful criminal structure in the United States, rooted in the prison world. It originated in the 50s, positioned as the protection of Mexicans in US prisons from other criminals and prison guards. The main activities are extortion and drug trafficking. They are prone to quick reprisals against those who are objectionable and who do not pay them the tax they themselves have established.

5. Japanese yakuza

Gordo traces his lineage to impoverished samurai nobles, or ronin as they were called in Japan. The heirs of noble fathers with many children, who sometimes had nothing but a sword, they inherited only the right to wear a sword and even comb their hair like a samurai: shave their forehead and crown, braid long hair from the back of the head into a tight pigtail and stick it on the bluish scalp.

Although the Japanese mafia is known all over the world, it is difficult to immediately spot it in the daily life of the local cities. Meanwhile, it has one hundred and ten thousand people, while the noisy and violent American - only twenty thousand. Considering that the US population is about twice that of the Japanese, it is not difficult to calculate that for every Japanese there are eleven times more professional rapists, robbers and murderers than an American.

Areas of activity: racketeering, distribution of prohibited pornography from Europe and America, prostitution and illegal emigration.

The fact that rapidly growing China is rapidly turning into a leader in global development is being talked about all over the world today. But there are also negative aspects of this process. As China's leading position in the global economy strengthens, it will rapidly expand its presence in transnational criminal relations. "Triads" have already staged a "third world war" for their competitors!

"Riding" the migration processes, the mafia structures of China and the Chinese mafia in other countries have taken a leading position in organizing human trafficking and establishing flows of illegal migration. The Europol report (June 2006) notes that Chinese mafia groups are named leaders in human trafficking in the countries of the European Union. The Chinese "triads" have supplanted the homegrown mafia in Japan - the yakuza: the Chinese account for about half of all crimes committed by foreigners.

It is one of the largest suppliers of cocaine in the world. All the efforts of the state authorities are still in vain, as the business of the bandits is more than successful. The Colombian drug mafia has existed since the mid-60s of the last century. The Medellin and Cali cartels quickly became the world's leading producers of cocaine.

2. Sicilian and American Cosa Nostra

Members of the Sicilian Mafia (left to right), Salvatore Lo Bue, Salvatore Lo Cicero, Gaetano Lo Presti, Giuseppe Scaduto, Antonino Spera, Gregorio Agrigento, Luigi Caravello, Mariano Troia, Giovanni Adelfio and Francesco Bonomo

In the XIII century. Sicily was constantly robbed not only by Algerian pirates, but also by detachments of French mercenaries who served the northern Italian dukes and princes. The organized armed struggle of the islanders against the French began in 1282 under the slogan "Morete alla Francia, Italia anela" ("Die, France - breathe, Italy"); from the first letters of the call, the Sicilians made up a battle cry: "Mafia!". Soon, self-defense units turned into units of professional fighters, who began to take tribute from the peasants for protection from external enemies. In the 19th century the mafia, which became a single system, even tried to separate the island from Italy and offered an alliance to Giuseppe Garibaldi, but the troops of the Principality of Piedmont defeated her.

At the end of the XIX century. thousands of Sicilians, fleeing poverty and clan wars, moved to America. In major cities of the United States, a network of Sicilian "families" arose ("Our Cause"), which controlled casinos, smuggling, prostitution, illegal circulation of alcohol, tobacco and weapons, and also engaged in racketeering.

All the "consorteries" of Sicily constitute a "venerable community" headed by Capo di tutti Capi, head of all chapters. Important figures in the structure of the mafia are also picciotti di ficatu (assassins), stopalieri (bodyguards), gabellotti (judges) and consiglieri (advisors).

It has 500,000 people. Her godfathers control 70% of the Russian economy, as well as prostitution in Macau and China, drug trafficking in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, money laundering in Cyprus, Israel, Belgium and England, car theft, nuclear trafficking and prostitution in Germany.

With the disappearance of the Iron Curtain, Russian expansion ceased to be controlled and directed, as it was before the collapse of the USSR. The first wave of "export" of crime from the territory, then still the USSR, took place in the early 70s, when Soviet Jews were allowed to leave for Israel. This wave was not comparable to the second one, when the “Iron Curtain” collapsed with the collapse of the USSR. Then the world, indeed, estimated the size of Russian crime, which he called the "Russian mafia."

They sometimes expressed very specific interests in different countries of the world. So, in December 1993, the Western press first mentioned that groups were “shaking” Russian hockey players playing in foreign clubs, the so-called “legionnaires”. The mass of materials on this subject in the press in subsequent years indicated that the "sports racket" had acquired a truly industrial scale. According to some reports, now the Russian criminal community operates in 50 countries around the world. According to the American professor Louise Shelley, since 1991 the ROP has exported 150 billion dollars from the Russian Federation. According to other sources - 50 billion dollars, but also a lot.