Kuratong Baleleng

Is an organized crime syndicate in the Philippines that once was an anti-

communist vigilante group. They received nationwide attention due to their alleged end in a
shootout with the Police in May 1995 in Quezon City. The group was originally established by the
Botanical Youth Club in 1986 to guard against the spread of communist guerrillas in Misamis
Occidental, Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur provinces. The first leader, chosen
directly by the military, was Octavio "Ongkoy" Parojinog, who allegedly used the group both for
its official purpose as well as to conduct illegal activities. Parojinog was later killed by Philippine
soldiers. When the group disbanded in 1988, they continued to operate as an organized crime
syndicate. At times other gangs used the name Kuratong Baleleng to cover their own activities.
Eventually, the group splintered into multiple, smaller groups around the region. The groups are
involved in a variety of illegal activities, including robbery, smuggling, kidnapping, murder,
extortion, drugs and illegal gambling. The gang is rooted in the Christian Cebuano community,
but has ties to Maguindanao guerillas, which led Muslim Maguindanao clans to become members
of the Kuratong Baleleng. According to military intelligence, part of the group's strength is that it
is protected by both local and national government officials.
In April 2014, a long-time Kuratong Baleleng fugitive, Edgar Digamo, was shot and killed by
police after Digamo started shooting at them in Lapu-Lapu, Philippines after hiding for 13 years.
 Satanas Gang
The Satanas Gang (aka Ese Te Ese or STS) is a Filipino American street gang in Southern
California, founded in 1972. It is believed to be the oldest and original Filipino American street
gang in Los Angeles.[1] Satanas was a clique from Temple Street since the 1920s that went off
solo in the 1970s In 1972, a car club group started in the Los Angeles area by some Filipino
Americans who had formed a cultural bond where they were a minority. At first the club was
exclusively for Filipinos. Other Filipinos came to socialize with this club. They soon branched out
to other Southern California cities including San Diego, La Puente, Cerritos, Oxnard Long
Beach, Eagle Rock, Norwalk, San Fernando, West Covina, Chino, Chino Hills, Santa Ana, San
Gabriel, El Monte, Delano, Palmdale, Antelope Valley, Vallejo, and San Jose and have reached
other states and the Philippines.
Some other Filipino gangs such as the Demonios and Diablos (not the Mexican gang of the same
name) claim their roots to Satanas, having originated amongst second generation STS members
and younger siblings of individuals who were members of STS; and the founders of many
other Filipino American gangs were originally members of Satanas.
Since there were cultural similarities between the Filipinos and Mexicans and being fluent
in Spanish, many of Ese Te Ese's older members and leaders allied with Chicano gangs in its early
years within their surrounding neighbors. Accounts of Los Angeles gang history often placed both
Filipinos and Mexicans side by side with each other during various street wars.
 Albania Organized Crime
The Albanian Mafia or Albanian organized crime (Albanian: Mafia Shqiptare) are the general
terms used for criminal organizations based in Albania or composed of ethnic Albanians.
Albanian organized crime is highly active in Europe, North America, South America, and various
other parts of the world including the Middle East and Asia. The Albanian Mafia participates in a
diverse range of criminal enterprises including trafficking in drugs, arms, humans, and human
organs. The Albanian criminal scenario is characterized by diversified criminal plans which, in
their complexity, show one of the highest criminal capacities in the world. In Albania alone, there
are over 15 mafia families that control organized crime. According to Wikileaks reports, the
Albanian mafia has monopolized various international affiliations from as far east as Israel, to as
far west as South America. These reports primarily indicate a strong connection between
politicians and various Albanian mafia families. According to the Research Institute for European
and American Studies (RIEAS), Albanian mafia groups are actually hybrid organizations (various
sectors of society), often involved in both criminal and political activities.
The Albanian Mafia, in its entirety, constitutes one of the highest crime generating elements in the
world, combining the “traditional” characteristics – plainly manifest in the rigid internal discipline,
in the clan structure, in the “endogamic closure” which increases the impermeability, the reliability
and the endogenous solidity – with modern and innovative elements, such as trans-nationality,
commercial imprinting and the criminogenous culture of service. The massive logistics to almost
anywhere and the syncretic nature of Albanian crime has facilitated its establishment outside the
mother country and its integration with the local criminality, exploiting the opportunities inherent
in the entire compatriot network.
In the United States, the term "Albanian Mafia" may include or refer specifically to
various Albanian-American organized crime groups, such as the Rudaj Organization or Albanian
Boys, both based in New York City. Albanian-American crime groups vary in the extent of their
connections to Albanian mafia groups in Albania or Europe, ranging from loosely connected to or
mostly independent of Albanian mafias in Europe to being essentially American extensions of
European Albanian mafia groups.
 14K Triad In China

The 14K (十四K) is a triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally. It is the second
largest Triad group in the world with around 25,000 members split into thirty subgroups. They are
the main rival of the Sun Yee On, which is the largest Triad. The 14K was formed
by Kuomintang Lieutenant-General Kot Siu-wong in Guangzhou, China in 1945 as an anti-
Communist action group. However, the group relocated to Hong Kong in 1949 when the
Kuomintang fled from the Communists following the Chinese Civil War. Originally there were
fourteen members who were part of the Kuomintang, hence the name 14K. However, some say
that 14 stands for the road number of a former headquarters and K stands for Kowloon.
Compared with other triad societies, the 14K is one of the largest and most violent Hong Kong-
based triad societies, and its members appear to be more loosely connected. 14K factional violence
is actually out of control because no dragonhead is able to govern all factions of 14K worldwide.
While Hong Kong's 14K triad gang dominates its traditional areas of operation and has expanded
far beyond the former British colony, its focus remains Sino-centric. Hong Kong triads, including
the 14K, have also expanded their activities in mainland China; a key motivation for members to
cross into China is to avoid police security and anti-gang crackdowns in Hong Kong.
During the 1990s it was the "largest Triad in the world." In 1997, there were a number of gang-
related attacks that left 14 people dead. Under Wan Kuok-koi (nicknamed "Broken Tooth Koi",
崩牙駒), the 14K was being challenged by the smaller Shui Fong Triad. The next year, a gunman
believed to be connected to the local 14K killed a Portuguese national and wounded another at a
sidewalk café in Macau. In 1999, a Portuguese court convicted 45-year-old mob boss Broken
Tooth Koi on various criminal charges and sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment. His 14K gang
was suspected of drive-by shootings, car bombings and attempted assassinations. Seven of his
associates received lesser sentences. Since the crackdown in Macau, the 14K triad resurfaced in
various cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago in the United States; Vancouver,
Calgary, and Toronto in Canada; Sydney in Australia; and also the UK.
In response to the massive publicity generated by Broken Tooth Koi, the 14K dramatically lowered
its public profile. Meanwhile, loan sharking and money laundering continue to be the primary
sources of revenue for the 14K in North America.
The 14K coordinated with Abu Sayyaf in the 2000 Sipadan kidnappings.
In August 2008, the 14K was allegedly involved in a high-profile kidnapping of a Chinese family
in New Zealand near Papatoetoe, Auckland. The plan was to demand a ransom, but they were
found before the money was paid.
 Bamboo Union Organized Crime

The United Bamboo Gang also known as UBG (Chinese: 竹聯幫; pinyin: Zhūliánbāng) is the
largest of Taiwan's three main criminal Triads. They are reported to have roughly 10,000
members. The membership consists largely of waishengren (Mainland Chinese) and has had
historic ties to the Kuomintang; they are said to be motivated as much by political ideology as by
profit. They are known to simply call themselves "businessmen", but in reality, are also involved
in organized killings, drug trafficking, and sex trafficking, among others. The gang gained global
notoriety when it became directly involved in politics in the early 1980s. The union does not view
themselves as criminals, but instead they view themselves as patriots. The Bamboo Union was
formed by Waishengren ("mainland Chinese") children in the 1950s who wanted to protect
themselves from threats by Hoklo children. The first members lived on Bamboo Forest Road in
Jung Ho City, Taipei County Zhonghe District. Its first members were made up of mainland
Chinese teens who joined together to secure a place in the country of Taiwan in which they were
an unwelcome minority that was rejected by Hoklo citizens. Their criminal gang began with
primarily with street-fighting to gain recognition in society. By the late 1960s, the aspirations of
the Bamboo Union membership shifted from street-fighting to profiteering. The gang began
making a name for itself in the "protection" business and extorting money from local shops and
factories, but the gang's treasury overflowed when thousands of well-paid American GIs flocked
to Taipei while on R&R from the Vietnam War. Chinese nightclub owners welcomed Bamboo
Union members to their premises to banish rival gangs of ethnic Taiwanese trying to carve out a
share of the lucrative trade in gambling, prostitution, and drugs.] By this stage, the Bamboo Union
was fast developing into a transnational crime syndicate or "triade". For example, current leader
Chang An-Lo "White Wolf" moved to Las Vegas in 1968 to study and keep order of the Bamboo
Union's expanding empire, particularly in the Chinatowns of California and the gambling halls of
Las Vegas.[7] In the early 1980s, the gang became even more powerful when they joined hands
with the "Iron Blood Patriots" to carry out missions overseas. In return, both gangs were offered a
great share of the heroin trade that expanded into the world market. This deal made the Bamboo
Union very powerful in Taiwanese politics and social culture, but also they were being watched
by major countries like the United States. The gang's powerful relationship with the "Iron Blood
Patriots" came to an end when Henry Liu was murdered on 15 October 1984.
 Black Eagles Organized Crime

Black Eagles (Spanish: 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, who emerged from the failures of the demobilization process
between 2004 and 2006, which aimed to disarm the United Self-Defense Units of
Colombia (AUC).
These were first considered to be a third generation of paramilitary groups but there are Colombian
military reports suggesting the Águilas Negras are intermediaries in the drug business between
the guerrilla and drug cartels outside Colombia. As of 2007 they were reported as active in the city
of Barrancabermeja.
The Black Eagles first appeared in the Norte de Santander Department in 2006. On 18 October
2006, President Álvaro Uribe openly ordered their detention.[4] The government ordered the
creation of a new Search Bloc against the Black Eagles and classified this organization as a gang
of former paramilitaries.
Las Águilas Negras are one of a number of groups that have formed following the demilitarisation
of the AUC, and they are said to be closely linked with the Usuga Clan.
The Black Eagles are closely associated with drug cartels and are involved in drug trafficking
activities, extortions, racketeering and kidnappings. They have also attacked guerrilla members
and suspected sympathizers. One individual who has been accused of leading the Black Eagles is
former AUC leader Vicente Castaño. Los Rastrojos: operating in Cauca Department and Valle del
Cauca. (Approx. 1200 members).
Mano Negra: Operating in the Putumayo Department. (Unknown number of members)
 Corsican Mafia

The Corsican mafia is a set of criminal groups which are part of the French Mob, originating
from Corsica. The Corsican mafia is an influential organized crime structure, operating
in France, Russia, and many African and Latin American countries. The most important groups of
the Corsican mafia The pre-war crime kings of Marseille, Paul Carbone and François Spirito,
sided with Vichy and the Germans. During World War II, the Corsican gang led by the Guerini
brothers (Antoine and Barthélémy, nicknamed "Mémé") sided with the Gaullist part of the French
Resistance.
In 1947, Marseille was the main trading port of the French colonial empire and it had
a communist mayor, Jean Christofol, who was backed by the trade unions, popular among
longshoremen, transportation workers, and dockworkers. In the coming Cold War (1947–53), both
the center-left French government and the US tried to fight communist influence in Marseille while
occasionally employing illegal means to further their goal: The Guerini gang was employed to
disrupt union and electoral gatherings, back strikebreakers and support US-funded non-communist
trade unions.
From the 1950s to the 1960s, the Guerini brothers, were exempt from prosecution in Marseille.
The Guerini brothers trafficked opium derivatives illegally imported from French Indochina using
the services of the Messageries Maritimes, a French merchant shipping company.
From the 1960s to the early 1970s the major Corsican gangs called Union Corse by American
authorities organized the French Connection, a heroin trade between France and the United States.
include the Unione Cors The end of the French Connection caused the disbandment of Corsican
clans involved in the heroin trade. However, the evolution of the Corsican Mafia has continued in
several illegal activities (hold-ups, racketeering, casinos, illegal slot machines, various drug
dealing and prostitution).
From the 1980s to the end of the 2000s, the Corsican mafia was split into two major groups;
the Brise de Mer, based in Northern Corsica, and the Colonna clan (also named "Jean Jé Colonna's
family"), based in Southern Corsica. A violent internal conflict troubled the Corsican mafia in
2007, resulting in around 102 murders on the island of Corsica. This conflict caused the fall of
these two groups and the rise of new Corsican gangs.
Today, the Corsican mafia consists of multiple families, allies, and rivals. Known groups in the
Corsican mafia are the Venzolasca gang (nickname in reference to the village of Venzolasca, in
northern Corsica, which are from key members of the gang), considered the Brise de
Mer successors. The "Petit Bar" gang (also called the "Tiny Bar"), the Valinco mobsters, and the
Corsican mob of Marseilles are also active.
e and the Brise de Mer gang.
 Dojin-Kai

The Dojin-kai (道仁会 Dōjin-kai), or "Dojin group", is a yakuza organization headquartered

in Kurume, Fukuoka, on the Kyushu island of Japan, a designated yakuza syndicate, with
approximately 850 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.
With its activities of drug trafficking, the Dojin-kai has allegedly been Japan's largest wholesale
dealer in drugs since the late 20th century, after the disbanding of three other yakuza groups based
in northern Kyushu; Tagawa-based Sadaoka-gumi, known as "[Japan's] Methlord in
the Showa era" which was crushed by the Taishu-kai, Okawa-based Hamada-kai, and Kumamoto-
based Yamano-kai.
The Dojin-kai was formed in 1971 from four old yakuza groups united by the first president, Isoji
Koga (former bakuto yakuza born 1934). Seijiro Matsuo, the Secretary General of the first-
generation Dojin-kai, succeeded as the president in 1992. In the same year, 1992, the Dojin-kai
was registered as a designated boryokudan group under the Organized Crime Countermeasures
Law.
Sometimes informally and mockingly dubbed the "Dojin Pharmacy" (Dōjin Yakkyoku), the Dojin-
kai's activities, just same as its splinter group Seido-kai's, allegedly largely consist of drug
trafficking.
In one notable case, as introduced in the "Drug Criminal Organization" section in the National
Police Agency's 1991 Police White Paper, a Fukuoka-based 20-member small Dojin-affiliate had
managed a systematic trafficking ring, selling methamphetamines to various drug-dealing yakuza
organizations throughout the country. This group had also smuggled methamphetamines
from Taiwan where it had a connection with a local Taiwanese drug ring. This group had used a
small island located in Kagoshima Prefecture as a smuggling base, and for example in 1986, this
group smuggled approximately 570 kg (1,260 lb) of methamphetamines—estimated retail price of
nearly US$1 billion from Taiwan.
 Beltran-Leyva Cartel

The Beltrán-Leyva Cartel (also known as the Beltrán Leyva

Organization (BLO); Spanish: Cártel de los Beltrán Leyva (CBL)) was a Mexican drug
cartel and organized crime syndicate, headed by the five Beltrán Leyva brothers: Marcos
Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo, Mario Alberto and Héctor. Founded as a branch of the Sinaloa Cartel, the
Beltrán Leyva cartel was responsible for transportation and wholesaling of cocaine, heroin and
marijuana (and the production of the last two). It controlled numerous drug trafficking corridors,
and engaged in human smuggling, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, murder and gun-
running.
The Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels, had effectively infiltrated the
ranks of various Mexican government agencies and Mexico's Interpol. Its last known
leader, Héctor Beltrán Leyva, was arrested in October 2014, having had a multimillion-dollar
bounty placed on him by the governments of both the United States and Mexico. On August 11,
2011 the capture of one of the cartel's former top lieutenants, called "the last Beltran-Leyva link
of any importance", prompted Mexican authorities to declare the cartel disbanded and extinct.
Born in the Sinaloan countryside in the 1960s, the Beltrán Leyva brothers
— Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo, Mario Alberto and Héctor — worked closely with Joaquín "El Chapo"
Guzmán, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, during decades of smuggling.[15] Sensing a void in the
rival Gulf Cartel after Osiel Cárdenas' arrest on March 14, 2003, the Sinaloa Cartel began to move
into Gulf Cartel territory. The gangs fought each other in northern Mexican cities, resulting in the
deaths of hundreds of people, including some civilians, police and journalists.
In 2004 and 2005, Arturo Beltrán Leyva led powerful groups of assassins to fight for trade routes
in northeastern Mexico for the Sinaloa Cartel. Through the use of corruption or intimidation, the
Beltrán Leyva Cartel was able to infiltrate Mexico's political, judicial and police institutions to
feed classified information about anti-drug operations, and even infiltrated the Interpoloffice in
Mexico.
During 2010, former Beltran-Leyva cartel lieutenant Óscar Osvaldo García Montoya (a.k.a. El
Compayito) attempted to regroup some cartel remnants under a gang he called La Mano Con
Ojos. García Montoya was arrested on August 11, 2011; the Attorney General of Mexico had
placed a $5 million pesos ($400,000 USD) bounty for his capture. Mexican authorities stated that
García Montoya was "the last Beltrán-Leyva link of any importance", and that the cartel has been
disbanded.
Allied forces of Los Zetas and Beltrán-Leyva remnants clashed on April 28, 2012 with gunmen of
the Sinaloa Cartel in the Choix mountains. At least 32 armed men were confirmed dead. The
renewed fighting in Sinaloa state between the BLO and Sinaloa Cartel is supposedly sparked by
the incursion of the Sinaloa Cartel and its allies in Nuevo Laredo, traditionally the biggest Zeta
stronghold.
The last cartel leader, Héctor Beltrán Leyva, was captured on October 1, 2014 while eating at a
popular restaurant in San Miguel de Allende. The U.S.A. was offering a reward of USD $5 million
for information leading to his arrest. while the Mexican government was offering a USD $2.1
million reward.
 Westies (Irish Gang)

The Westies were a New York City-based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible
for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing. They were partnered with the Italian-
American Mafia, and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. According
to crime author T.J. English, "Although never more than twelve to twenty members—depending
on who was in or out of jail at any given time—the Westies became synonymous with the last
generation of Irish in the birthplace of the Irish Mob...." According to the NYPD Organized Crime
Squad and the FBI, the Westies were responsible for 60–100 murders between 1968 and 1986.
The Westies was the name given by the Irish media to a criminal gang based in Blanchardstown,
west Dublin, Ireland.
They controlled the heroin trade in west Dublin in the late 90s and early 2000s and were known
for their extreme violence against drug addicts and rival drug dealers. The gang, who were also
involved in armed robberies and extortion, imploded after the murders of all of its leaders.
Bernard 'Verb' Sugg (23) was shot dead by two masked men in a pub in Blanchardstown in August
2003. Shane Coates (31) and Stephen Sugg (27) went missing in Spain in 2004. Their bodies were
found buried under concrete in a warehouse near Alicante in July 2006. Both had been shot in the
head. Spanish police suspect they were killed after crossing another group of Irish gangsters based
in Spain. Coates had fled to Spain after being injured in a shoot-out with Gardaí in Cavan in 2003.
In April 2005, Andrew Glennon (30) was shot dead after being ambushed by at least four gunmen
near his home in Clonee. His brother Mark (32) was shot dead outside his home in Blanchardstown
by a lone gunman five months later.
 Russian Mafia

Russian organized crime or Russian mafia (Russian: рoссийская мафия, translit. rossiyskaya
mafiya, Russian: русская мафия, translit. russkaya mafiya), sometimes referred to
as Bratva (Russian: братва: "brotherhood"), is a collective of various organized crime elements
originating in the former Soviet Union.
Organized crime in Russia began in the imperial period of the Tsars, but it was not until the Soviet
era that vory v zakone ("thieves-in-law") emerged as leaders of prison groups in gulags (Soviet
prison labor camps), and their honor code became more defined. With the end of World War II,
the death of Joseph Stalin, and the fall of the Soviet Union, more gangs emerged in a
flourishing black market, exploiting the unstable governments of the former Republics, and at its
highest point, even controlling as much as two-thirds of the Russian economy. Louis Freeh, former
director of the FBI, said that the Russian mafia posed the greatest threat to U.S. national security in
the mid-1990s.
In modern times, there are as many as 6,000 different groups, with more than 200 of them having
a global reach. Criminals of these various groups are either former prison members, corrupt
officials and business leaders, people with ethnic ties, or people from the same region with shared
criminal experiences and leaders. However, the existence of such groups has been debated. In
December 2009, Timur Lakhonin, the head of the Russian National Central Bureau of Interpol,
stated "Certainly, there is crime involving our former compatriots abroad, but there is no data
suggesting that an organized structure of criminal groups comprising former Russians exists
abroad", while in August 2010, Alain Bauer, a French criminologist, said that it "is one of the best
structured criminal organizations in Europe, with a quasi-military operation."
The Russian mafia can be traced back to Russia's imperial period, which began in the 1700s, in
the form of banditry and thievery. Most of the population were peasants in poverty at the time, and
criminals who stole from government entities and divided profits among the people earned Robin
Hood-like status, being viewed as protectors of the poor and becoming folk heroes. In time,
the Vorovskoy Mir (Thieves' World) emerged as these criminals grouped and started their own
code of conduct that was based on strict loyalty with one another and opposition against the
government. When the Bolshevik Revolution came around in 1917, the Thieves' World was alive
and active. Vladimir Lenin attempted to wipe them out, but failed, and the criminals survived
into Joseph Stalin's reign.
 Turkish Organized Crime In Great Britain
Turkish organized crime in Great Britain has been prevalent in the country since the early 90s
when the Arifs controlled London's underworld for a brief time. Since the fall of
the Taliban during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, it has been speculated that the lifting of the
ban on opium cultivation may become a highly lucrative trade for Turkish criminal organizations
who already control the smuggling and distribution of heroin.
However, while concerned over the importation of cheap heroin due to Afghanistan's resumption
of growing poppies, the National Criminal Intelligence Service and British police officials
publicly announced that is unlikely as the street price of heroin for the last several years has
remained relatively stable at £70 a gram.

British Firm Organized Crime

British firms is a name designated to describe organised crime groups originating in the United
Kingdom. In analogy with the Penose in the Netherlands and the Milieu in France, Organised
crime in the United Kingdom has traditionally been governed by homegrown organised criminal
groups involved in a multitude of illegitimate businesses. The UK being a multi-ethnic society,
criminal enterprises come from a variety of different ethnic backgrounds finding their origin in the
UK, the most dominant of them still being the White British groups.
Outside of the indigenous British crime firms, foreign criminal gangs such as the Irish
mob, Albanian mafia, Cosa Nostra and other Italian organised crime groups; Triads, Russian
mafia, Yardies, Pakistani mafia as well as Sri Lankan Tamil and Vietnamese organised crime
groups operate in parts of the United Kingdom. Those criminal organisations are not described as
being British crime groups since their organisation itself or their main connections originated in a
foreign country.
The whole of the UK is said to host some 7,500 different organised criminal groups that cost the
country £100 million a day in crime and lost revenues.
English and Scottish crime groups, as well as English crime groups of Irish (like the Adams)
and Turkish Cypriot (like Arif family) descent find their origin in tough, impoverished
white working class neighbourhoods. They are largely family-run organised criminal gangs
involved in many illegal activities in their respective areas. Even with the influx of foreign
gangsters as well as with the rise of homegrown gangs consisting of minorities, white British
groups are still the major concern for law enforcement and are active in the major British urban
centres. Indigenous criminal organisations are mostly centred around local extended criminal
families.
 Black Mafia

The Black Mafia, also known as the Muslim Mafia, Muslim Mob, Philadelphia Black Mafia,
or PBM is a Philadelphia-based African-American organized crime syndicate. The organization
began as a small criminal collective, known for holding up neighborhood craps games and dealing
in the illegal drug business, but at its height of operation until about 1975, it managed to
consolidate power and control a large portion of criminal activity in various African-American
neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley, and South Jersey,
including Atlantic City. In addition to drug trafficking, burglary, and armed robbery, the Black
Mafia was also engaged in traditional organized crime activities such
as extortion, racketeering, prostitution, loansharking, number running and other illegal
gambling rackets.
Allegedly formed in September 1968 by Samuel Christian, who later adopted the name Suleiman
Bey under the Nation of Islam, the Black Mafia was heavily involved in a large part of drug
trafficking in Philadelphia during the 1970s, with heroin being the most trafficked drug. Christian,
a former Black Panther with an extensive arrest record, was an imposing man: 5'10' tall and
described as a "thick-necked, powerfully-built, 215-pound bully." Additional founding members
included Ronald Harvey, Henry Dabney, Richard "Pork Chops" James, Donald "Donnie" Day,
Clyde "Apples" Ross, Robert "Bop Daddy" Fairbanks, Craig "Heist" Jones, Walter Hudgins,
Robert "Nudie" Mims amongst others. Nearly all of the original members eventually became
Nation of Islam members or converted to Islam, giving the organization the nickname of "the
Muslim Mafia" or "the Muslim Mob."
The Black Mafia gained power in local neighborhoods by intimidating people to prevent anyone
from reporting the group's activities to the police. Because of this, police had incredible difficulty
taking any action on the gang or any of its members for years after their conception. Members
participated in holding up crap games and extorting drug dealers, working as numbers men and
illegitimate businessmen. Over the course of their control, the Black Mafia was responsible for
over 40 murders and countless other crimes. Each founder had extensive arrest records, with most
cases involving violence. Law enforcement officials had difficulties prosecuting members of the
group, however, because witnesses would rarely cooperate, fearing retaliation, and cases were
dropped more often than not. This not only permitted the offenders to continue their criminal
activities, but also allowed their reputations of being "untouchable" to flourish, thus enhancing
their influence on the street.
 Table Of Contents

I. Different Organized Crime

1.1 Kuratong Baleleng

1.2 Satanas Gang
1.3 Albania Organized Crime
1.4 14K Triad In China
1.5 Bamboo Union Organized Crime
1.6 Black Eagles Organized Crime
1.7 Corsican Mafia
1.8 Dojin-Kai
1.9 Beltran-Leyva Cartel
1.10 Westies (Irish Gang)
1.11 Russian Mafia
1.12 Turkish Organized Crime In Great Britain
1.13 British Firm Organized Crime
1.14 Black Mafia

II. Organized Crime Group In The Philippines

2.1 Bahala Na Gang

2.2 Satanas Gang
2.3 Salisi Gang
2.4 Tutok Kalawit Gang
2.5 Ativan Gang
2.6 Ipit Gang
2.7 Laslas Bang or Bulsa Gang
2.8 Ipit Taxi Gang
2.9 Besfren Gang
2.10 Laglag Barya Gang
2.11 Akyat Bahay Gang
2.12 Zest-O Gang

III. Terms Of Ponder

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