Organized Crime Group

Running Head : THE RUSSIAN MAFIA

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Abstract

Most people would equate organized crime groups with the Italian Mafia or Japanese Yakuza . However , the Russian Mafia groups have also recently become a formidable and influential group , similar to their foreign counterparts . These groups have been in existence since only by a few decades or so , but their influence has ranged into some of the most complex criminal activities , so much so that Federal authorities have taken cognizance of them . The will try to unravel the

inner workings , activities of this new crime group , the Russian Mafia

A Red Crime Wave

From the Motherland

In the report of the National Institute of Justice under the auspices of the United States Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs the Russian crime group has merited the same notoriety as some of the more infamous criminal outfits , such as the La Cosa Nostra (LCN ) or the Italian-American Mafia , the Hong Kong Triads and the Japanese Yakuza (NIJ , 2008 . The Russian mob has its web spread out around the world making its presence known in at least 60 countries (NIJ , 2008 . Now they have stretched their criminal tentacles into the United States

History

An Introduction

With the collapse and dismantling of the Soviet Union , the citizens that comprised the 15 republics were ushered into the concepts and principles of democratic government (Lungren , 1996 . Consequently , the Russian Mafia also thrived in this new economic system , expanding its business beyond the bs (Lungren , 1996 . Although the activities of the group have been under the watch of Federal authorities for quite some time , they have gained Federal notice only in the last five years (Lungren , 1996 . In a report dated August 1993 , the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that the 15 crime groups existing have had links with the former Soviet Union (Lungren , 1996 . These crime organizations span the breadth of the Unites States (Lungren , 1996 . It should also be noted that the immigrants from the former U .S .S .R are either career felons who may or may have no connections at all with the Russian Mafia (Lungren , 1996

Many of these crime groups operating in the United States have confirmed ties with organized crime organizations in the former Soviet Union (Lungren , 1996 . These groups have become entrenched into the fabric of Russian social and political life (Lungren , 1996

To paint a picture of how much entrenched these groups are , Russia 's Analytical Center for Social and Economic Policies , in a report to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin , stated that these groups are a threat to Russian national development (Lungren , 1996 . In Russia , it was estimated that about 80 percent of businesses and banks in major centers in Russia paid a portion of their profits as tribute to the mob (Lungren , 1996 . To keep watch on these groups , the FBI put up a Moscow office for the purpose of monitoring Russian crime groups encroaching into American territory to avert the...