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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2007) | The Russian Mafia or Russkaya Mafiya, Red Mafia, Krasnaya Mafiya or Bratva (slang for 'brotherhood'), is a name given to a broad group of organized criminals of exclusively Russian, non-Jewish ethnicity which appeared in the former Soviet Union territories after its disintegration in 1991. The Russian Mob's own members have been known to call their crime group "Organizatsiya" ("The Organization"). Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
Organized crime or criminal organizations are groups or operations run by criminals, most commonly for the purpose of generating a monetary profit. ...
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History
Despite seeming to arise during the Fall of the Soviet Union, organized crime had existed throughout the imperial and communist eras as a form of open rebellion against the systems in the form of the "Thief's World". During this time organized crime was fiercely honor-based and often attacked and killed traitors among their ranks. Nevertheless, during World War II, many enlisted in the Russian Army resulting in the Suka Wars, which killed many of the thieves who were branded as government allies as well as the original thief underworld during Stalin's reign. The criminals, seeking a new survival strategy, began to ally with the elite in the Soviet Union as a means of survival, creating a powerful Russian black market. The rise of Gorbachev Although reform stalled between 1964–1982, the generational shift gave new momentum for reform. ...
Thief in law (Russian: Вор в законе) is a skilled worker, particularly a thief, within the Russian criminal world who satisfies certain requirements of the Russian criminal traditions. ...
Honor (or honor) comprises the reputation, self-perception or moral identity of an individual or of a group. ...
The Bitch Wars or Suka Wars occurred within the Soviet prison system between 1945 and around the death of Joseph Stalin. ...
Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ...
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The real breakthrough for criminal organizations occurred during the economic disaster and mass emigration of the 1990s that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. Desperate for money, many former government workers turned to crime, others joined the large numbers of Soviet citizens who moved overseas primarily to the United States and the Mafia became a natural extension of this trend. Former KGB agents, sportsmen and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen Wars, now finding themselves out-of-work but with experience in areas which could prove useful in crime, joined the increasing crime wave.[1] This article is about the year. ...
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There have been two Chechen Wars: First Chechen War (1994–1996) Second Chechen War (1999–) 1991-1994 In September, 1991, militants of Nationally Congress of Chechen People (NCChP) have taken control over Chechnya (they have seized republics parliament and killed chief of the PCUS of Grozny, Vitali Kutsenko). ...
Backed by its extensive connection to the apparatchik power network of the Soviet Union, between 1992 and 1994 the Russian Mafia targeted the commercial centers of power, seizing control of the nation’s fragile banking system. At first the criminal gangs were content to merely “park” their large cash holdings in legitimate institutions, but soon they realized that the next step was the easiest of all: direct ownership of the bank itself.
One of the ways the mafia got so much power was that after the breakup of the union, many state-owned industries were privatized. Rather than bidding for shares, the general public were randomly given vouchers which represented share certificates in the companies. After Moscow lost direct control of Eastern Europe and had more open borders, many Russians wanted higher quality western goods and given that they lacked basic necessities, a few pieces of paper were of little use. So they traded their shares for the goods they wanted, which only the mafia were able to smuggle and supply, giving the various criminal organisations legal and financial control of major industries, obtaining international business contracts by bribery and offering jobs in the companies to mafia allies and those who would infiltrate the company for them and act as enforcers. Thus the privatization backfired and rather than leading to widespread, but private-sector public ownership, instead led to ownership by an elite cabal of criminals.
Banking executives, reform-minded business leaders, even investigative journalists, were systematically assassinated or kidnapped. In 1993 alone, members of the eight criminal gangs that control the Moscow underworld murdered 10 local bankers. Calling themselves thieves in law (vori v zakone), Russian gangsters murdered ninety-five bankers between 1993 and 1998. Thief in law (Russian: Вор в законе) is a skilled worker, particularly a thief, within the Russian criminal world who satisfies certain requirements of the Russian criminal traditions. ...
Beginning in the late 1970s systematically, the Communist bloc began encouraging large numbers of its people to emigrate to the United States and Europe. In 1992 they killed 30 people in one week during Mikhail Gorbachev's reign. Via their large communities throughout the West and in particular the United States, since the mid-90s the crime groups have been trying to expand their criminal empire into the United States, most often via the trafficking of drugs, illegal weapons and prostitutes. This has led to some brutal wars with the organizations already present, including the Italian Mafia, and Chinese Triads all of whom also had their own communities to operate inside of with protection. This article is about the criminal society. ...
Triad (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; literally Triad Society) or (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; literally Black Society, a general term for criminal organizations) is a term that describes many branches of Chinese underground society and/or organizations based in Hong Kong and Macau and also operating in Taiwan, mainland...
This has led to a number of alliances between the gangs of the former USSR and others. The group is believed to have links to Colombian drug smugglers and many smaller gangs as a result of the fall of the Soviet Union. Some also believe they are at the heart of gangs smuggling illegal workers west to the European Union and often Britain, though no proof has been offered for this at this time. While the home of the Russian Mafia in America is in the Brighton Beach neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, it is also widely believed that there is a prominent West Coast operation as well, with constant communication between the two coasts. For other uses, see Brighton Beach (disambiguation). ...
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Over the last few years, the FBI and Russian security services have tried to crack down on the Mafia, though the impact of this crackdown has yet to be measured. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
Organizations - The Solntsevskaya bratva, or Solntsevskaya brotherhood (Russian:Солнцевская братва), was one of--if not the--most powerful organized crime group operating in Moscow.
- Dolgoprudnenskaya was a Russian mafia organization and was considered one of the largest groups of organized crime operating in Moscow. It was named after Dolgoprudniy, which is a Moscow suburb. It was founded in 1988 and was allegedly very influential.[2]
- The Izmailovskaya gang (Russian: Измайловская) was considered one of the country's most important and oldest Russian Mafia groups in Moscow and also had a presence in Tel Aviv, Paris, Toronto, Miami and New York City.[3] It was founded during the 1980s under the leadership of Oleg Ivanov and was estimated to consist of about 200 active members (according to other data of 300-500 people). In principle, the organization was divided into two separate bodies - Izmailovskaya and Gol'yanovskaya,[4] which utilized quasi-military ranks and strict internal discipline. It was involved extensively in murder-for-hire, extortions, and infiltration of legitimate businesses.[5]
- The Obshina, or Chechen mafia, was a formidable organized crime group in the Russian underworld. According to experts, ethnic Chechen criminal gangs formed the most dominant minority criminal group in Russia. It is believed some gangs may have ties to Chechen militant factions.
- The Potato Bag gang was a gang of con artists operating in New York's Brighton Beach in the mid-70's.
- The Orekhovskaya gang was a powerful criminal group in between the late 1980s and early 90s.
- In California Armenian-American organized crime groups have also appeared in Los Angeles County, and are involved in many white-collar frauds as well as drug trafficking and extortion. [6]
- The Kemerovo group was a criminal russian gang operating mainly in Estonia and Scandinavia.
The Solntsevskaya bratva, or Solntsevskaya brotherhood (Russian:СолнцевÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð±Ñ€Ð°Ñ‚Ð²Ð°) are a powerful organized crime family from Moscow, Russia. ...
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Coat of arms of Dolgoprudny Dolgoprudny (Russian: ) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about 20 km north from Moscow. ...
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The Tambov Gang (in Russian: ТамбовÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¿Ñ€ÐµÑÑ‚ÑƒÐ¿Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð³Ñ€ÑƒÐ¿Ð¿Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²ÐºÐ°) is a large, arguably the most powerful gang of Saint Petersburg, Russia, according to common allegations, organized in Leningrad (former name of St. ...
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...
The Chechen mafia, or Obshchina (Russian: Община, meaning community), is one of the largest and most important organized crime (OC) groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia gangs, which consist of ex-KGB, spetznaz and criminals with wide access to arms caches, and other high profile...
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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | - Marat Balagula (Brooklyn-based crime boss and originator of billion-dollar gasoline bootlegging scam; released from American prison in 2004.)
- Arbi Barayev (Chechen warlord/crime boss; killed by Russian armed forces in 2001.)
- Viktor Bout (Arms merchant; former international fugitive; awaiting deportation to United States.)
- Yuri Brokhin (Famed expatriate Russian dissident/international drug dealer and jewel thief; murdered 1982.)
- Vitali Dyomochka (Russian mobster who produced a TV series chronicling his own activities.)
- Monya Elson (Prolific professional killer; convicted of three murders and imprisoned.)
- Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg (Southern Florida crime boss; deported to Israel.)
- Vyacheslav "Yaponchik" Ivankov (America's most powerful vor v zakone; deported to Russia.)
- Zakhar "Shakro" Kalashov (International vor v zakone boss; jailed in Spain.)
- Vladimir Kumarin (Saint Petersburg-based boss of Tambov Gang crime group.)
- Otar "Otarik" Kvantrishvili (Moscow extortionist; murdered in 1994)
- Ruslan Labazanov (Chechen crime boss; murdered in 1996.)
- Sergei Mikhailov (Moscow-based head of Solntsevskaya bratva crime group.)
- Semion Mogilevich (Billionaire Budapest-based crime lord.)
- Boris Nayfeld (International drug kingpin.)
- Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev (Chechen crime boss; missing and believed dead.)
- Alexander Solonik (Professional killer; murdered in 1997.)
- Nikolay "Hoza" Suleimanov (Chechen head of Obshina crime group; murdered in 1994.)
- Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (Arms dealer and accused Olympic fixer.)
- Nik Radev (Australia-based Bulgarian gangster and enforcer for local Russian mob; murdered in 2003)
- Alex and Vladimir Zilber (Fraternal team of gasoline bootleggers; Vladimir crippled by assassination attempt; Alex resides in Russia.)
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Marat Balagula, (born Orenburg, Russia 1943), is a former Russian Mafia boss, and convicted felon. ...
Arbi Barayev with his gunmen Arbi Alautdinovich Barayev (Chechen: Ðрби Ðлаутдинович Бараев) (Russian: Бараев, Ðрби Ðлаутдинович) (1973 - June 23, 2001), nicknamed Terminator, was a Chechen warlord and renegade leader of Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR), a militant Chechen rebel group. ...
Viktor Anatolyevich Bout (Russian: ) (born January 13, 1967 near Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian former GRU major and arms dealer, [1] nicknamed the Merchant of Death.[2] Bout is suspected of supplying arms to the Taliban and Al Qaeda and of supplying huge arms shipments into various...
Vitali Dyomochka, also known as Bondar, is Russian mobster and crime boss in the Vladivostok area. ...
Monya Elson (May 23, 1951) is a Russian-American mobster involved in counterfeiting, drug trafficking and other criminal activities in the Russian-Jewish neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn as well as suspected of ordering the deaths of Elbrous Evdoev and members of the rival Vyacheslav Lyubarsky organization. ...
Ludwig Tarzan Fainberg is a Russian-Jewish crime boss. ...
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Thief in law (Russian: Вор в законе) is a skilled worker, particularly a thief, within the Russian criminal world who satisfies certain requirements of the Russian criminal traditions. ...
Thief in law (Russian: Вор в законе) is a skilled worker, particularly a thief, within the Russian criminal world who satisfies certain requirements of the Russian criminal traditions. ...
Vladimir Kumarin is a Russian businessman, former vice president of the Petersburg Fuel Company (PTK) in 1998 - 1999, and allegedly the boss of the powerful Tambov Gang of St. ...
Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...
The Tambov Gang (in Russian: ТамбовÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð¿Ñ€ÐµÑÑ‚ÑƒÐ¿Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð³Ñ€ÑƒÐ¿Ð¿Ð¸Ñ€Ð¾Ð²ÐºÐ°) is a large, arguably the most powerful gang of Saint Petersburg, Russia, according to common allegations, organized in Leningrad (former name of St. ...
Otari Otarik Kvantrishvili ( - April 5, 1994) was a prominent member of the Russian mobster up until his death in 1994. ...
Ruslan Labazanov (1967 - June 1, 1996) was an infamous criminal boss (abrek) of the Chechen mafia and former head of a Chechen opposition faction. ...
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The Solntsevskaya bratva, or Solntsevskaya brotherhood (Russian:СолнцевÑÐºÐ°Ñ Ð±Ñ€Ð°Ñ‚Ð²Ð°) are a powerful organized crime family from Moscow, Russia. ...
Mogilevich in 2001 Semion Yudkovich Mogilevich (June 30, 1946 in Kiev, Soviet Union, in Russian Семен Могилевич, also written as Semyon) is a notorious organized crime boss who is believed to control the largest Russian Mafia syndicate in the world. ...
Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev is (or possibly was, it is rumored he was killed) a leader of the Chechen mafia organization known as Obshina and a prominent figure in Chechen politics. ...
Alexander Solonik (1960-1997), also known as Alexander the Great, and Superkiller, was born in the city of Kurgan. ...
Nikolay Suleimanov, known more commonly as Hoza, was allegedly a leader of the Chechen mafia organization Obshina along with Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev. ...
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Nik Radev Nikolai The Russian Radev was a Bulgarian refugee who became known as a career criminal in Melbourne. ...
Foreign businessmen and the Russian mafia An unknown number of foreign businessmen, believed to be in the low thousands, arrived in Russia from all over the world during the early and mid 1990s to seek their fortune and to cash in on the transition from a communist to a free market/capitalist society. This period was referred to by many of the businessmen as the "second great gold rush". This article is about the form of society and political movement. ...
A free market is an idealized market, where all economic decisions and actions by individuals regarding transfer of money, goods, and services are voluntary, and are therefore devoid of coercion and theft (some definitions of coercion are inclusive of theft). Colloquially and loosely, a free market economy is an economy...
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For other meanings, see Gold rush (disambiguation) A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. ...
Generally, 1990 to 1998 was a wild and unstable time for most foreign businessmen operating in Russia. Dangerous battles with the Russian Mob occurred, with many being killed or wounded. The Mafia welcomed the foreign businessmen and their expertise in facilitating business and making things happen in a stagnant and new economy. The Mafia considered them as a good source of hard currency, to be extorted under the usual guise of "protection money". Many different Mafia groups would fiercely compete to be able to "protect" a certain businessman; in exchange, the businessman would not have to worry about having more than one group showing up demanding tribute from him. Many foreign businessmen left Russia after these incidents. This article is about the year. ...
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A protection racket is an extortion scheme whereby a powerful organization coerces individuals or businesses to pay protection money which allegedly serves to purchase the organizations protection services against various external threats, whereas the actual threat comes from the organization itself. ...
Foreign businessmen associated with the Russian mafia - Paul Tatum: American joint owner of Radisson-Slavanskaya Hotel in Moscow; shot 11 times in the head and neck (his attacker knew he was wearing a bulletproof vest) and killed in a sensational shooting in a Moscow Metro station in November 1996 for refusing to pay "krysha" and to be squeezed out by a silent partner. Tatum was surrounded by his own bodyguards when attacked; however, they made no attempt to save him and allowed his attacker to escape unharmed. Tatum had, only weeks before this, taken out a full-page ad in a local newspaper denouncing his Chechen partner Umar Dzhabrailov for trying to squeeze him out of their hotel joint venture. Tatum, a multi-millionaire, had connections to the then U.S. President Bill Clinton and many high ranking Moscow politicians. His murder has not been solved.
- Ken Rowe: Canadian businessman and joint owner of Moscow Aerostar Hotel; threatened by the Russian mafia in an attempt to force him out of a joint hotel-airline venture. Mafia at one point entered the hotel with armed men and forced all employees out. Rowe later fought back and seized an Aeroflot aircraft in Montreal to recover his award in a Russian court.
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The Chechen Republic (IPA: ; Russian: , Chechenskaya Respublika; Chechen: , Noxçiyn Respublika), or, informally, Chechnya (; Russian: ; Chechen: , Noxçiyçö), sometimes referred to as Ichkeria, Chechnia, Chechenia or Noxçiyn, is a federal subject of Russia. ...
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The Russian Mafia in popular culture
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Video games - The Russian Mafia is one of the main factions in the LucasArts game Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.
- Max Payne 2, one of main characters, Vladimir Lem, is with the Russian Mafia.
- The Russian Mafia is a key gang in Grand Theft Auto IV.
- The Russian Mafia appears in GTA2 as a gang that the main character, Claude Speed, can work with to get jobs from.
- The Russian Mafia are prominently featured some of the missions of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, one of which where they occupy the Atrium building in Los Santos.
- The Russian Mafia plays a part in Gangland.
- The Russian Mafia play an important role in the plot of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.
- The Russian Mafia is a main antagonist in The Punisher.
- The Russian Mafia play a role in John Woo's Stranglehold.
- The Russian Mafia are represented as the Volk in Crackdown.
- The Russian Mafia is very prominent in Hitman series. In Hitman: Codename 47, one of main targets is Arkadij "Boris" Egorov, an influental russian mafia gunrunner. In Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, the main antagonist is a russian mafia boss named Sergei Zavorotko. There are also several russian army generals and lesser criminals, which are as well could be counted as mafia members.
- The Russian mafia is the main antagonist in The Getaway: Black Monday.
- The Russian Mafia appears in "Gangs of London", and you can choose them to play.
- The Russian Mafia are involved in the plotline of "True Crime: Streets of L.A."
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Comics/Anime - In the manga/anime Black Lagoon, the main characters' primary allies are a branch of the Russian Mafia based in Thailand, which is called Hotel Moscow and is made up primarily of veterans having served in Afghanistan.
- In Marvel Comics' Ultimate Marvel imprint, Colossus of the X-men was a member of the Red Mafia.
- In Marvel Comics' MAX imprint of The Punisher, the Russian Mafia is one of the many criminal organisations that are targeted by Frank Castle in his war against organised crime.
- In particular,DC Comics' 'Batman' comic book line during late 2006 and early 2007, the Russian mafia was highly involved in a conspiracy against the main villain and his sister, who was a former lover of Bruce Wayne's(aka Batman). The Russian mafia have also been used in other Batman comic book storylines, previously.
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Books - In the Artemis Fowl series, Artemis Fowl I is held captive by the Russian Mafia.
- "Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers," Gus Russo, Bloomsbury, NY 2006.
- In Jeffrey Archer's "The Eleventh Commandment", former CIA agent Connor Fitzgerald is indirectly employed by the Russian Mafia to carry out a hit on the newly-elected Russian president, Victor Zeremski. The Russian mafia are later seen working alongside, and against, the governments of the United States and Russia.
- Vodka, 2005, Boris Starling
- In Chris Ryan's 1998 novel The Kremlin Device the protagonist must train the Russian armed forces in anti-mafia strategies.
- In James Patterson's novels "The Big Bad Wolf" and "London Bridges", the main antagonist was a Russian gangster called "the Wolf".
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Television - The Russian mafia appear in several episodes of The Sopranos, most memorably in the episode Pine Barrens.
- The Russian miniseries The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed and Brigada explore the Russian mafia post-World War II and post-communism respectively.
- The Russian Mafia is featured in an episode of Criminal Minds, titled Honor Among Thieves.
- The Russian Mafia is featured in an episode of Numb3rs, titled Backscatter.
- Alleged members of the Russian organized crime family appears in the prison series Oz.
- The HBO series, The Wire, in season Two the Russian Mafia plays a major role.
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References - ^ [BBC News - The Rise and rise of the Russian mafia http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/russian_mafia/70095.stm]
- ^ Oleg Liakhovich, A Mob by Any Other Name, The Moscow News
- ^ B. Ohr, Effective Methods to Combat Transnational Organized Crime in Criminal Justice Processes US Dept. of Justice
- ^ Домашняя библиотека компромата Сергея Горшкова (Home library of Sergei Gorshkov)
- ^ US, COMM, PERM, p. 201
- ^ Russian-Armenian organized crime 'like the 1930s New York mob' Los Angeles Daily News
Further reading - James O. Finckenauer & Elin J. Waring, Russian Mafia in America: Immigration, Culture and Crime, Northeastern University Press Boston, 1998, ISBN 1-55553-374-4.
- Mark Galeotti (ed.), Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime, Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2002, ISBN 0-7546-2176-6
- Federico Varese, The Russian Mafia, Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Robert I. Friedman, Red mafya, Penguin Group, 2002, ISBN 0-425-18687-3.
- Yvonne Bornstein and Mark Ribowsky, "Eleven Days of Hell: My True Story Of Kidnapping, Terror, Torture And Historic FBI & KGB Rescue" AuthorHouse, 2004. ISBN 1-4184-9302-3.
- "Red Cocaine," Joseph D. Douglass, Ph.D. (Chronicles Soviet development of South American drug cartels.)
- Claire Sterling, Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crime, Simon & Schuster, 1994, ISBN 0671749978.
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