1. Russian Mafia

Russian Mafia has 500 000 people. Her godfathers control 70% of the
Russian economy, as well as prostitution in Macau, and China, illegal
drug trafficking in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, money laundering in
Cyprus, Israel, Belgium and England, car theft, trafficking in nuclear
materials and prostitution in Germany. With the disappearance of the
Iron Curtain, the expansion of Russian crime has ceased to be controlled
and directed, as it was before the Soviet collapse. The first wave of
"exporting" crime area, then still the Soviet Union, took place in the
early 70's, when allowed to emigrate to Israel of Soviet Jews. This wave
was not comparable with the second - when the collapse of the Soviet
Union collapsed, the Iron Curtain. Then the world is, indeed, has
estimated the size of Russian crime, which he called "Russian mafia".
Russian crime community is sometimes very specific interests in
different countries. So, in December 1993, the Western press for the
first time mentioned that the grouping of "shaking" of the Russian
hockey players playing in foreign clubs, the so-called "foreign
players". The mass of material on the subject in the press in the years
to say that "racket sport has acquired a truly industrial scale.
According to some, now Russia's criminal community operates in 50
countries.According to an American professor Louise Shelley, the PMA in
1991 withdrew from the Russian Federation $ 150 billion. According to
other sources - $ 50 billion, but too much.
02. Sicilian and American Cosa Nostra

Salvatore Lo Bue, Salvatore Lo Cicero, Gaetano Lo
Presti, Giuseppe Scaduto, Antonino Spera, Gregorio Agrigento, Luigi
Caravello, Mariano Troia, Giovanni Adelfio and Francesco Bonomo ? XIII
?. Members of the Sicilian Mafia (from left), 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 is constantly
robbing not only the Algerian pirates, and French troops, mercenaries,
who served severoitalyanskim dukes and princes. Organized armed struggle
against the French islanders began in 1282 under the slogan «Morete
alla Francia, Italia anela» («Die, France - sigh, Italy), the first
letters of appeal Sicilians were the battle cry:« Mafia! ». Soon
self-defense units have become units of professional soldiers, who began
to take tribute from the peasants for protection from external enemies.
In the XIX century. Mafia, which became a uniform system, even tried to
achieve separation of the island from Italy and requested the union by
Giuseppe Garibaldi, but forces the Principality of Piedmont caused her
defeat. At the end of the XIX century. Thousands of Sicilians to escape
from poverty and clan wars, moved to America. In major U.S. cities arose
Cosa Nostra («Our Business") - a network of the Sicilian "family" that
controlled the casinos, smuggling, prostitution, illegal liquor, tobacco
and weapons, and engaged in racketeering. All "konsorterii" Sicily are
"respectable community, led by Capo di tutti Capi, the head of all the
chapters. Important figures in the structure of the Mafia are also
picciotti di ficatu (assassins), stopalieri (bodyguards), gabellotti
(judges) and consiglieri (advisers).
03. Colombian drug cartels
Colombian Mafia is one of the world's largest
supplier of cocaine. All the efforts of public authorities are still in
vain, as the business of gangsters are more than successful. Colombian
drug Mafia has existed since the mid-60's of last century. Cartels
"Medellin" and "Kali" very quickly became the leading producer of
cocaine in the world.
