Below is a compendium of organised crime groups from around the world. If you notice any inaccurate or out-of-date information please contact me. It is listed alphabetically in terms of nations with sub-sections about different regions.
ALBANIANS and KOSOVANS
Shpetim Lisha (born March 1983) | In November 2002 he was jailed for 13 years at the Old Bailey for kidnapping Albanian businessman Arap Mytaj, torturing him in Epping Forest and demanding a £50,000 ransom. | Kidnapping | London | ||
Adriatik Malaj (aged 18) | ditto (got 10 years) | ditto (got 10 years) | |||
Mane Driza | Mane Driza – also known as Tony Montana – killed Bledar Mone at their flat in north London in June 1999. Father-to-be Mr Mone was left with 120 injuries following the “brutal” attack. Driza, 41, then went on a three-year killing spree in Italy and Albania. In 2019 he was jailed for life (20 years). | Murder | In 2019 he was jailed for life (20 years). | London/Albania/Italy | |
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201903201073404502-albanian-scarface-murder-london/ | |||||
Mustapha Kadiu, 31 (born 6 Dec 1969) | Mustapha Kadiu, 31 (born 6 Dec 1969) – was jailed in Nov 2002 for 10 years for pimping and drug dealing in north London. He brought a girl from Romania to London and then sold her to a club in Macedonia.
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London | |||
Edmond Ethemi (Kadiu’s cousin) | was jailed for 6 and a half years for pimping. | ditto | |||
Rudaj Organization | Alex Rudaj | Extortion and illegal gambling | Jailed for 27 years | Yorktown, New York | |
(1993-2004) | |||||
Princ Dobroshi (born in 1964) | (arms smuggler with KLA) – now a heroin smuggler | lives in Pec, Kosovo | served time in jail in Norway | ||
Osmani Brothers | major players in organised crime | Hamburg, Germany | |||
Kelmendi family | Naser Kelmendi – cigarette trafficking, money laundering and loan sharking, drugs | Bosnia | |||
Baki Sadiki | runs Albania mafia here | Slovakia | |||
Thaqi Organisation | Gjavit Thaqi – drugs import and distribution | New York | |||
Kapllan Murat aka The Getaway King | A Belgium-based criminal who is famous for escaping from prison. Also qualified as a baker while in prison | Belgium | |||
AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND
Francesco Dominico La Rosa | Perth | Drugs (heroin) | Jailed for 12 years in 1996 for drug dealing | In 2003 he successfully claimed back tax from the government | |
http://www.melbournecrime.com/ | |||||
The Company | Tony Mokbel | Melbourne (survived being stabbed in Barwon prison in 2019) | Drugs (amphetamines) | On 3 July 2012, Mokbel was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Victoria to 30 years with a minimum term of 22 years. | Had a relationship with lawyer Nicola Gobbo, aka Lawyer X, a major police informant. In Dec 2020 he looked due to be released as a result of Gobbo. |
THE DEATHS BELOW WERE PART OF A GANG WAR IN MELBOURNE BETWEEN 1998 and 2004 WHICH CLAIMED 23 LIVES | |||||
Carlton Crew | Alphonse Gangitano, 40, godfather of Melbourne | Melbourne | Shot dead at his home in 1998 | ||
Graham “The Munster” Kinniburgh, another associate | Murdered in 2003 | ||||
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Moran Family | Jason Moran, an associate of Gangitano | Melbourne | He was implicated in Gangitano’s death. Was himself killed in 2003 | ||
Lewis Moran, 58, boss (Jason’s father) | Melbourne | trafficking amphetamines, speed, hashish and pseudoephedrine | Shot dead in a bar in the suburbs by two hitmen on 2 April 2004 (was on bail) | ||
Judy Moran, matriarch | Melbourne | convicted of the murder of Des ‘Tuppence’ Moran | Jailed for 26 years in 2011 | ||
Mark Moran, stepson | Melbourne | Murdered in 2000 | |||
Andrew “Benji” Veniamin | Melbourne | Shot dead in an Italian restaurant in 2004 | |||
Carl Williams | Melbourne | Jailed for 35 years for murdering Jason Moran | Murdered in Barwon prison in 2010 by a fellow inmate | ||
DLASTHR (The Last Hour) | Michael Odisho | Sydney | Jailed for 5 years in 2016 | ||
(Assyrian gang) | |||||
Brothers for Life (BFL) | Bassam Hamzy (founded it in 2007). Jailed in 2013 | Sydney (SW suburbs) | Middle Eastern gang | ||
ditto | Bankstown Chapter (Lebanese Muslims) | Bankstown | Bankstown and Blacktown chapters had a feud 2012-14 | ||
ditto | Blacktown Chapter (Afghani) | Blacktown | |||
BIKIE GANGS: | |||||
Hells Angels | |||||
Bandidos | |||||
Comancheros | |||||
Odin’s Warriors | |||||
Gypsy Jokers | |||||
Rebels | |||||
Life and Death | |||||
NEW ZEALAND | |||||
Mongrel Mob | Dennis Makallio | Porirua | |||
is just one of many members | |||||
Black Power | Auckland and | ||||
Whakatane |
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
BRAZIL
Gang | |||||
First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) | Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, known by the aliases “Marcola” and “Playboy, | Sao Paulo | Leader | Marcola was sentenced to 232 years and 11 months in maximum-security prison for robbery, drug trafficking, homicide and forming a criminal group. He began serving his prison sentence in the early 2000s. | Under Marcola’s leadership, the PCC expanded outside of prison walls and started to function as an increasingly sophisticated criminal organization involved in lucrative illicit activities like drug trafficking. In 2006, after authorities announced plans to move hundreds of prisoners, including Marcola, into higher-security prison conditions, the PCC organized a series of huge prison rebellions and coordinated attacks in São Paulo that left more than 150 dead and brought the city to a virtual standstill. |
Gilberto Aparecido Dos Santos, alias “Fuminho | Second in command | Arrested in Mozambique in 2020 | |||
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Beira Mar gang (now defunct) | Fernando Beira-Mar | Narcotrafficking | tape recorded telling a henchman to cut off the limbs of one of his girlfriend’s lovers (who was then forced to eat his own ear) | He is imprisoned in a maximum security prison in western Sao Paulo state | |
ditto | Lucimar de Lucena | ||||
(his right hand man) | |||||
ditto | Paulo Cuzzuol, lawyer | He was arrested in Jan 2004 for trying to smuggle money to and from Beira Mar in prison | |||
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Comando Vermelho (Red Command) aka CV | Eduíno de Araújo or Dudu | favelas of Rio (Cidade Alta, Vidigal and Rocinha) | Took over Rocinha from rival Lulu in 2004, amid great violence | Was killed in suspicious circumstances by the police in 2013 | |
Founded in jail in 1970s by left-wing political prisoners under military dictatorship and was known as Falange Vermelha (Red Phalanx) but has since lost political links | |||||
Luciano Barbosa da Silva | narcotrafficking | shot dead in Mar 04 | |||
known as Lulu | by rivals within CV | ||||
(inc possibly Dudu) | |||||
José Carlos dos Reis Encina | shot dead in Oct 04 | ||||
aka Escadinha (Stepladder) | aged 49 while on day | ||||
release from jail | |||||
Elias Maluco, 35 or Elias the Madman | Rio | narcos | Tortured and killed TV journalist Tim Lopes in 2002 | Jailed for 28 years in 2005 | |
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Terceiro Comando ditto (Third Command) | |||||
Amigos dos Amigos | ditto | ||||
(ADA) | (rule Morro de | ||||
Juramento) | |||||
(associated with | Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia | Sao Paulo | drug smuggling to | arrested in Sao Paulo | |
Norte del Valle | aged 44 (in 2007) | US and Europe | on 7 Aug 2007 | $19m found at a house | |
cartel in Colombia) | aka Chupeta (Lollipop) | (and money | in Cali owned by him | ||
laundering in Brazil) | (he is believed to have fortune of $1.8bn) | ||||
BULGARIA
VIS 1 | Konstantin Dimitrov | London/Amsterdam | Drugs (heroin) | Shot dead in Amsterdam |
aka Samokovetsa | in Dec 2003 (by a | |||
Dutchman, Ervin Wrecker, | ||||
who was a bodyguard for | ||||
Kaiser Karl, a mobster who | ||||
was killed in Oct 2003) | ||||
Yosif Yosifov-Yosko | Amsterdam | Amphetamines | Another enemy of Dimitrov | |
(Russian?) | (and friend of Wrecker) | |||
Krassimir Marinov | Sofia | Enemy of Dimitrov (may | ||
aka The Marguin | have organised the hit) | |||
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? | Louis Ziskin, leader | California | drugs cartel | Jailed for 30 years in 2004 |
(born in Syria) | in US | |||
Simeon Mihaylov, 35 | London | ditto | Jailed for 18 years in 2004 | |
(was in debt to Ziskin) | (ran UK end) | in UK |
BURMA (MYANMAR)
United Wa State Army | Wei Hsueh-Kang aka | Thai/Burma border | Drugs | On White House list of drug dealers for years |
signed peace deal with Burmese government in 2013 | Prasit Chivinnitpanya | (to fund insurgency) | Sentenced to death in absentia in Thailand in 1987. He is now back in Myanmar and has laundered a lot of drug profits through Hong Pang Group of companies | |
Shan United Army | Khun Sa, aka Chang Chi-Fu | Shan state | Drugs (heroin) | Was on White House list of top 12 drug dealers for decades. Surrendered to Burmese government in 1996. His children nowadays run legit businesses |
defunct since 1996 | Died in 2007 | |||
The Scorpions | Kyaw Ne Win, boss, | Rangoon | drugs | – |
grandson of General Ne Win | ||||
former leader of Burmese | ||||
military junta | ||||
White Snake gang | led by sons of the director | Rangoon | drugs | – |
general of police and the | ||||
Mayor of Rangoon | ||||
Japanese Yakuza | ? | Rangoon | drugs | – |
indigenous gang (not | ||||
to be confused with the | ||||
real Yakuza) |
CANADA
Hells Angels
Montreal chapter
They were led by Maurice “Mom” Boucher, 60, who went to war with the Quebec-based Rock Machine gang between 1994 and 2002. He was jailed for life in 2002 with the help of a supergrass, Stéphane Gagné, nicknamed Godasse, who testified against him. He was jailed for life (25 years minimum). His son, Francis Boucher, was arrested in 2002.
Richard Vallee, 55, was captured after years on the run in 2003 (see link). He was jailed for life in 2008. http://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/captured/vallee.htm
Andre Chouinard, Michel Rose, Kenny Bedard, Stephane Jarry, Pierre Taupin.
Aime Simard, a bisexual hitman who helped convict Boucher, was stabbed 187 times in jail in Saskatchewan in 2003.
Michel Smith, a Hells Angels hitman, was arrested in Panama in 2012. He is wanted for 22 murders in Canada during the biker wars.
The Rock Machine
Formed in 1986 by Salvatore Cazzetta partly to protect other bikers and drug dealers from the Hells Angels. They were at work with the Hells Angels from 1994. They joined the Bandidos in 2000, but when the Bandidos quite Canada in 2007 (after the Shedden massacre) Rock Machine was relaunched. Rock Machine also has a chapter in Perth, Australia. Cazzetta later served time in jail in the US and joined the Hells Angels around 2008.
The Bandidos
In April 2006 eight members of the Bandidos’ Toronto chapter were shot dead in a farmhouse near Shedden, Ontario. The six killers were led by Wayne Kellestine, a Toronto Bandido. The killing was an internecine feud, best described in Peter Edwards’ book, The Bandido Massacre http://bandidomassacre.com/
The Outlaws
NON-BIKERS
Vancouver/British Columbia
Bindy Johal – Vancouver-based heroin trafficker, shot dead in a Vancouver nightclub in December 1998.
Ranjit Singh Cheema – inherited Johal’s drugs business. Wanted for extradition by California. Jailed in 2008. Later released and shot dead in Vancouver in 2012.
Michael Singh Brar – Cheema’s bodyguard. Shot dead by rivals in Vancouver in 2000.
Dhak-Duhre group – They are an alliance of two gangs – The Duhres hail from North Vancouver and were proteges of Johal. Sandip (Dip) Singh Duhre, 36, was shot dead in 2012. He left control of 50 to 100 street soldiers and much of the Fraser Valley’s drug trade to his brothers Balraj, 38, and Paul, 35. They have since moved to Surrey area. The Duhres were suspected of involvement in a shooting in August 2011 in a casino in Kelowna that killed gangster Jonathan Bacon and wounded Hells Angel Larry Amero and James Riach of the Independent Soldiers gang. Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil, from Montreal, has been charged with the first-degree murder if Duhre. He fled to Greece but is awaiting extradition. They are allied with the Dhaks. Gurmit Singh Dhak, 32, was shot dead at Metrotown shopping centre in October 2010. Younger brother Sukh Dhak, 27, was put in charge but was shot dead in November 2012, along with his bodyguard, Thomas Mantel, in a hotel in Burnaby.
The Red Scorpions – led by the Bacon Brothers. Jonathan Bacon was killed in August 2011 (see above). His brother Jarrod is serving 12 years in jail for supplying cocaine. A third brother, Jamie is in jail awaiting trial for the first-degree murder charge of the so-called “Surrey Six”. Six people were killede in October 2007 in a tower block in Surrey, including two innocent bystanders.
The UN gang – The gang, also known as the Global United Nations Syndicate (GUNS) get the name from the fact that their members are from various ethnic minorities. In July 2013 five men were jailed for plotting to kill the Bacon brothers. The gang’s leader Barzan Tilli-Choli (of Iraqi origin) got 14 years, Yong Sung John Lee got 11 years, Dilun Heng got 12 years, Karwan Ahmet Saed got 12 years and Ion Kroitoru got 13 years. Cory (Frankie) Vallee and Conor Vincent D’Monte, are on the run with Canada-wide arrest warrants out for them. The UN gang are allied with the Hells Angels.
The Independent Soldiers – Their leader Sukhvinder “Bicky” Dosanjh was killed in a car accident in 2005. The gang is now led by Peter Adiwal, who has been in and out of jail a lot.
Tommy Gisby – shot dead in Mexico in 2012.
A gang war broke out in 2008 between Hells Angels and UN gang on one side and Red Scorpions and the Dhak-Duhre group on the other side.
Gang | Main members | Base | Business | Events/Status |
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CHINA
FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS INDEX WE INCLUDE TAIWANESE, HONG KONG AND MAINLAND CHINESE TRIADS | ||||
ALL TRIADS USE THE CODE ‘OVERTHROW THE CH’ING, RESTORE THE MING) | ||||
Gang | Leaders | Base | Business | Status/Events |
14K | Founded by a KMT general | Hong Kong | Has a deal with | Had a feud with Shui |
(pronounced Sap Sie Kee) | to combat communism, it | Holland | Yakuza, whereby | Fong in Macao in 1997 |
20,000 members worldwide | degenerated into a purely | Birmingham | it buys hard-core | which led to 29 deaths |
(4,000 of them abroad) | criminal enterprise. | Liverpool | Japanese porn for | |
especially strong in Holland | Ireland | European sex shops, | ||
(controls heroin trade) | They are the most dominate | N England | controls much of | |
Its lodges in Paris were | Triad in Macao | heroin trade in Holland | ||
dismantled in 1980s | Prostitution in Bangkok | |||
Strong in Hong Kong | Wan Kuok-koi, aka Broken Tooth (aged 65 in 2020) | Macao | Casinos in Macao | Arrested in 1999 and jailed for 15 years |
Freed in 2012 | ||||
now leads The World Hongmen History and Culture Association | Investing in Cambodia | |||
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Shui Fong | Wan Chun Chung, 42 | HK | various | Arrested in Canada |
aka Wo On Lok | Canada | |||
has 3,000 members in | Lam Ying Kit, Hong Kong | London | (Queensway area) | shot four times when he |
Macao alone | businessman | Glasgow | tried to take over gang in | |
South Coast | UK in 1991 | |||
Channel Is | ||||
Wai Ming Tang, 36 | Manchester | Jailed for 6 months (see | ||
aka “Clifford” | above attack) | |||
Tak Kam Chow, 40 | N London | Acquitted (see above) | ||
Wai Yuen Liu, 30 | So’ton | ditto | ||
Shui Cheung Wai, 30 | London | ditto | ||
Cheng Chi Chan, 24 | Sheffield | ditto | ||
Wai Wan Ho, 41 | London | ditto | ||
Wai Hen Cheung, aka | pleaded guilty and turned | |||
“George” | Queen’s evidence | |||
Sun Yee On | To Luen-Shun, boss | Hong Kong | prostitution, control | |
has 45,000 members | China | of nightclubs, drugs | ||
(most active among | Europe | and counterfeiting | ||
Chaozhou (Guangdong | (least power- | (also controls much | ||
province) community) | ful in UK) | of HK film industry) | ||
runs mahjong clubs in HK | ||||
Wo Shing Wo | Kwok Wing-Hung aka Shanghai Boy, is known for his 70s-style sunglasses and bowl haircut. Kwok, 59, was arrested by drug police at a flat in Repulse Bay, on the south of Hong Kong Island, in 2019 on suspicion of laundering more than HK$100 million. He was born in Hong Kong and got the nickname because his father was from Shanghai. He is often seen wearing a Chinese tunic and is a big fan of Bruce Lee. He reportedly led Wo Shing Wo from 1998 to 2000 and remains a faction leader. | HK | ||
part of which is the | Manchester | |||
Black Society | Ireland | |||
(set up in HK during World | Yau Lap Yuen, aka | |||
War II under protection of | Limping George, boss | |||
Japanese army) | ||||
Wai Wo Chung, 26, Dudley | ||||
Wai Man Chung, 30, Telford | ||||
Dai Hoon (Big Circle Boys) | ? | China | ||
aka Tai Heun Chei | ||||
(former Red Army soldiers | (strong in | |||
who acted as 14K bodyguards | Low Countries) | |||
before breaking away in | ||||
late 1970s) | ||||
3K | ? | HK | ||
Chiu Chao Brotherhood | Chin Sophonpanich, founder | HK | Rice smuggling, | Also have bases in |
(Teochiu-speaking clan) | of Bank of Bangkok, (used | (orig from | Heroin (Golden Triangl | Thailand, Canada, US etc |
heroin profits), died in 1988 | Swatow) | Black markets | ||
Robin Chan, son, | HK | Took over Commercial | ||
Bank of Hong Kong | ||||
Chatri Sophonpanich, young | Bangkok | Took over as head of | ||
er son | Bank of Bangkok | |||
Snakeheads | He Chen, 26 (in 2003) | Fukien | Smuggled people into | Jailed for 13 yrs in 2003 |
(unspecified gang) | (aka Fujian) | UK | for kidnapping Chen Cun | |
iLiang in Wigan and forcing | ||||
his relatives to pay up to | ||||
release him (Manch CC) | ||||
Chen Ming Jien, 27 | ditto | ditto | Jailed for 10 yrs (ditto) | |
Zhang Long, 22 | ditto | ditto | Jailed for 8 years | |
Zun Yan Chen, 22 | ditto | ditto | ditto | |
He Wang, 38 | ditto | ditto | Jailed for 3 years | |
THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL GANGS WHICH BELONG TO THE CHIU-CHAO (TEOCHIU) | ||||
Mei Hsien | ? | Swatow, | Kidnapping, extortion, | |
(ditto) | (Teochiu | drugs, counterfeiting, | ||
dialect) China | prostitution | |||
Chin Hai | ? | ditto | ||
Yao Ping | ? | ditto | ||
Chao Yang | ? | ditto | ||
Hong Tai Yang (Red Sun) | ? | China | ||
strong in | ||||
Rome, Milan, | ||||
Spain and | ||||
S France | ||||
United Bamboo Gang, | Chang An-Lo, aka | Taiwan | Loansharking, | Jailed for drug dealing |
aka Bamboo League | The White Wolf, boss | gambling, prostitution, | ||
has 10,000 members | security & construction | |||
Chang Chien-ho, eldest son | Taiwan | Stabbed to death in | ||
Taipei by a member of the | ||||
Four Seas gang | ||||
Four Seas gang | ? | Taiwan | Debt collection, | |
aka Hsieh Lien-fu | prostitution, security | |||
Has 2,000 members (mainly | and construction | |||
2nd & 3rd generation mainland | ||||
Chinese) | ||||
Sung Lian | ? | Taiwan | Debt collection, | |
(several hundred members, | prostitution, small | |||
mainly mainlanders) | businesses | |||
Tian Dao Man | ? | Taiwan | Extortion and | |
(mainly native Taiwanese) | prostitution | |||
Flying Dragons | Johnny “Onionhead” Eng | New York | ||
Ghost Shadows | Nicky Louie, founded | New York | Gambling, drugs | Jailed for 9 years (RICO) |
(has lost much of its | them in 1970s | and protection | in 1985. Released 1994 | |
power since 1996) | rackets | |||
Wing Yeung Chan,new boss | ditto | Took over when Louie | ||
(snitch) | was jailed. Indicted in | |||
1996 (RICO). Became a | ||||
? | ditto | government witness. | ||
Kung Lok | Lau Wing Kui, from HK, | Toronto | Illegal gambling, | He fled to Dominican |
founded them in 1977 | (subsidiary | loansharking,extortion | Republic in 1980. Later | |
in Ottawa) | nightclubs | returned to HK via Macao | ||
Mo Shui Chen, aka | ditto | Diversified into | ||
Danny Mo, new boss | heroin dealing | |||
(also has monopoly on entertainers) | ||||
Red Eagles (Hung Ying) | ? | Vancouver | Extortion | |
has 100 members | (orig from HK) | |||
Lotus Family | founded by David So in 1976 | Vancouver | ? | |
Park Shing Low, new boss | ditto | |||
Jung Ching (football club) | ? | Vancouver | ||
Star Wars | ? | ditto | ||
Wild Animals | ? | ditto | ||
Ching Tao (Justice Scale) | ? | ditto | ||
Yee Tong | ? | ditto | ||
COLOMBIA
Medellin Cartel | Pablo Escobar | Medellin | Drugs | Shot dead by police | ||
(defunct) | former boss | in 1993 | ||||
Carlos Lehder | Medellin | Drugs (cocaine) | Arrested in Colombia | |||
former boss | Extradited to US in | |||||
1987. Serving 135yrs | ||||||
Jorge-Luis Ochoa, 42 | ditto | ditto | Surrendered in 1990. | |||
(boss since 1993) | Released in 1996 but | |||||
rearrested in 1999 | ||||||
Juan David Ochoa,brother | ditto | ditto | Died in 2013 | |||
Fabio Ochoa, brother | ditto | ditto | Serving a 30 year sentence in US | |||
Cali Cartel | Gilberto Orejuela (born in 1939) | Cali | drugs | Jailed for 9-10 years | He was extradited to US in 2004 and is serving 30 year sentence there. | |
(defunct) | aka The Chess Player | in 1997 (later raised | ||||
to 20 years). | ||||||
But in Nov 2002 the | ||||||
Prosecutor General | ||||||
ordered their release | ||||||
after serving 3/5 of | ||||||
their sentence | ||||||
Miguel Orejuela, brother | Cali | drugs | Ditto (also in jail in | Extradited to USA | ||
Bocaya) | in March 2005. Sentenced to 30 years in jail. | |||||
Currently in federal penitentiary in South Carolina | ||||||
Jose Santacruz, 52 | ditto | ditto | shot dead | |||
Evaristo Porras Ardila | Cali | ditto | in exile in Ecuador | |||
Mario Ernesto Villabona- | ditto | ditto | Jailed for life in US in 1990 | |||
Alvarado, 30 | ||||||
Victor Patino-Fomeque | Buenaventura | cocaine by sea | Surrendered in 1995 | |||
Jailed for 12 yrs in 1996 | ||||||
Helmer Herrera, aka | (gay) | surrendered in 1996 | ||||
Pacho | Shot dead in prison in 1998 by an assassin | |||||
indep | Hugo Herrera-Vasquez | Cali | cocaine | free | ||
Henry Loaiza Ceballos, | surrendered after | |||||
aka The Scorpion | govt put $600,000 | |||||
(responsible for massacre of 107 Indian peasants in R. Cauca) | bounty on his head | |||||
In jail (as of 2020) | ||||||
Norte del Valle Cartel | Arcangel Henao-Montoya | Norte Valle | cocaine | arrested in Panama | ||
boss | del Cauca | in Jan 2004, extradited to US and spent 8 years in prison there. Freed in 2012 and returned to Panama | ||||
(allies of paramilitary | ||||||
organisation | Jose Orlando Henao- | ditto | Surrendered in 1997. | |||
run by | Montoya, brother | Shot dead in Modelo | ||||
Carlos Castano) | prison (in Bogota) in | |||||
taken over much of | Nov 98. | |||||
Cali Cartel’s business | ||||||
Diego Montoya-Sanchez | Valle del Cauca | cocaine | free | Believed to be protected by | ||
(formerly a second tier | (smuggled to | He is top of FBI’s 10 | Colombian paramilitaries | |||
lieutenant in Henao- | Mexico) | Most Wanted list | (the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, AUC) | |||
Montoya’s organisation) | from Peru/S Colombia | |||||
Alejandro Bernal-Madrigal | Transportation | Arrested in Oct 99 | ||||
aka Juvenal | Bogota | co-ordinator | in Colombia | |||
for Ramirez-Abadia | ||||||
see Brazil | ||||||
Jairo Ivan Urdinola- | Valle del Cauca | cocaine | Arrested in 1992. | |||
Grajales, boss | Jailed for 4 years | |||||
(related to Henao-Montoya) | Died in prison in suspicious circumstances in 2002 | |||||
(His widow Loren was herself murdered in 2012) | ||||||
Julio Fabio Urdinola-Grajales | in prison | |||||
Chupeta organisation | Juan Carlos Ramirez- | ? | cocaine | Surrendered in 1996 | ||
Abadia, aka Chupeta | (he is worth #2.6bn) | Jailed for 24 years | ||||
Jorge Orlando Ramirez-Abadia, brother, aka El Mono | Arrested in Brazil in 2007 and jailed. He was then extradited to the US and got a 25 year sentence in exchange for agreeing to give evidence against El Chapo | |||||
? | Carlos Ruiz de Santamaria | cocaine (arrested | Granted bail after a | On the run | ||
aka Carlos The Black, 47 | Spain | in connection with | prison psychiatrist | since Dec | ||
or El Negro (claims to be | a £260m shipment | said he had a fear of | 2001 | |||
Mexican) | of cocaine) | jail which bordered | ||||
on the suicidal | ||||||
Los Urabeños aka The Gulf Clan (descended from
AGC (Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia)
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Daniel Rendón Herrera – leader – was captured in 2009
The current leaders are Juan de Dios Usuga David aka Giovany and Dario Antonio Usuga David, aka Otoniel. |
Uraba (NW Colombia) |
EL SALVADOR
El Salvadorean | |||||||||
18th Street Gang | San Salvador | petty crime | MS-13 | ||||||
MS (Mara Salvatrucha) | all over Central and North | smuggles drugs and | 18th Street | http://www.nagia.org/mara_salvatrucha.htm | |||||
aka MS-13 | America | illegal immigrants | |||||||
(inc 33 states in US) | and extortion | In 2005 two MS-13 members in Virginia | |||||||
has 10,000 members in US alone | were jailed for life for the murder of | ||||||||
Brenda Paz, 17, an MS-13 member who | |||||||||
MS-13 rules 4 sq miles of | was an FBI informant. | ||||||||
LA between Normandie | |||||||||
and Hoover avenues | Expert: Al Valdez, investigator, | ||||||||
Orange County, California | |||||||||
In Dec 04 20 people killed on a bus in | |||||||||
Honduras (as a message to the government to leave MS-13 alone) | |||||||||
They practice “stacking” – a system of hand signals which is a coded language, such as double horns | |||||||||
In July 2018 the FBI in Maryland charged 21 defendants with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as the La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including:
The names of six other defendants charged in the racketeering conspiracy remain sealed. In addition, Darvin Guerra Zacarias, a/k/a “Chapin,” age 26, and Luis Fernando Cruz Rodriguez, a/k/a “Catra,” age 21, are charged with conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, along with Guerra Castillo, Hernandez Diaz, Portillo Rodriguez, Sandoval Rodriguez, Ramirez Pena, Arias Mejia, Rosa Moreno, Arrue Figueroa, Mendez Sosa, Ruiz Urrutia, and Argueta Argueta. Samuel Diaz-Ramos, a/k/a “Pequeno,” age 32, is charged with money laundering conspiracy. MS-13 is a national and international gang composed primarily of immigrants or descendants from El Salvador. Branches or “cliques” of MS-13, one of the largest street gangs in the United States, operate throughout Frederick County, Anne Arundel County, Prince George’s County, and Montgomery County, Maryland. All of the defendants except for Rosa Moreno were allegedly members and associates of the Fulton Locotes Salvatrucha clique of MS-13. The indictment alleges that Rosa Moreno was a member and associate of the Parkview Locos Salvatrucha clique of MS-13.
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ENGLAND
The Adams family
aka The A Team or Clerkenwell Syndicate |
London (North) | Tommy Adams | London (North) | prison | drugs (£18m a year) |
Top firm in 1990s. On decline since 2000 | Islington/King’s X | (NG of Brinks Mat) | (Sept 98: 7yrs for cannabis trafficking) | ||
In Sep 98 henchmen Eddie Wilkinson and Michael Papamichael also jailed for 7.5 years | |||||
(has heroin habit) >> | Terry Adams, 46 | dresses like Liberace | Essex (used to live in Finchley, now Essex) | ||
Patsy Adams, 45 | Fuengirola, Spain | ||||
(several of the brothers | Danny Adams | drug user | Majorca, Spain | ||
have fallen out with | Micky Adams | keeps himself to himself | |||
each other, especially | Anthony Passmore | Jailed for fraud in Nov 98 | |||
Terry and Tommy, | Bitter Lemon Bob Deanus | ||||
after Terry beat up | John Potter (Patsy’s brother in law) Islington council electrician with #1.2m Swiss bank account | ||||
Tommy’s son). | ex-soldier >>>>>>> | Chris McCormack,43 | enforcer from Banstead, Surrey (acquitted of GBH in May 99, despite slashing financial adviser David McKenzie) | ||
Wayne Hurren | short temper | hitman. Committed suicide in Wormwood Scrubs prison in 2020 | |||
Mark Hurren, brother | |||||
Tiernan clan | Paul Tiernan: jailed for 4 yrs for possessing gun (got beaten up in jail) | ||||
Billy Isaacs | doorman, one of his friends got shot recently. Keeping low profile | ||||
In 2017 Tommy Adams, now 59, was jailed for seven years for money laundering. His son Shaun Adams, 32, was given a suspended sentence. A business associate of Tommy Adams, Loukas Menikou, 55, from Enfield pleaded guilty to money laundering and was sentenced to ten months, suspended for 12 months. Separate charges of money laundering against Tommy Adams and his daughter, Terri Adams were ordered to lie on file. The second trial related to the purchase, redevelopment, rental and part-sale of a former public house in Blondin Street, Bow, using fraudulent mortgage transactions which were carried out at the instruction of Tommy Adams.
The trial heard £110,000 was found in a floor safe at Steve Mardon’s house in Barnet.
Mardon, 58, was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to five years and three months’ imprisonment.
Haralambos Antoniades, 48, was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to five years and three months’ imprisonment.
Christos Christopher Nicolas, 52, from Roydon, Essex was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment.
Elias Antoniou, 53, was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to two years imprisonment.
Martin Dowd, 49, from Mottram St Andrew, Macclesfield was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to five years and three months imprisonment.
Robert Winstanley, 77, from Northwich was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to three years imprisonment.
Richard Jones, 58, from Chelford, Macclesfield, Cheshire was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, suspended for two years.
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Canning Town Cartel | London (East) | Tony Bowers | Anglo-Cypriot, owns Peacock Gym | ||
now London’s top | Martin Bowers | ? | drugs | ||
(white) firm | Paul Bowers | ||||
Jesse Gale RIP | DEAD | ||||
Billy Jasper | junkie | ? | |||
Dean Hegarty | ex army marksman | somewhere in Loughton | |||
Michael Pearman? | jailed for 7 yrs in 1993 for shooting Norman Roberts dead in Bethnal Green pub | ||||
Scott Pearman, son? | survived fight at Epping Forest Country Club which left his brother Darren dead | ||||
The Evans family | London (North) | ? Evans | keep themselves to themselves | Drugs | |
? Evans, brothers | |||||
The Brindles | London (South) | Tony Brindle, 31 | survived Sep 95 assass. Bid | drugs? | |
(aka The Frasers) | (brothers) | Patrick Brindle | with ditto was acquitted of killing Abi Abdullah | ||
closely related | Walworth/Bermondsy | George Brindle | shot and injured while visiting parents | ||
Rotherhithe | David Brindle RIP | murdered in 1991 by hitman Jimmy Moody (working for Daleys?) | |||
Johnny Brindle | married to Debbie Arif (thus ending the feud) | ||||
Steve Dalligan | survived 1990 assassination bid by Arifs | ||||
Frankie Fraser | legendary gangster, former Richardson henchman. | ||||
David Fraser | his son? | ||||
The Arifs | London (South) | Osar Arif (acquitted of killing security guard in May 97) | armed robberies, | ||
Turkish Cypriot | Bekir Arif, 46, (In May 97 jailed for 5 years for disposing of guns) | drug smuggling | |||
Stockwell | In 1999 he was jailed for 23 years for drug smuggling | own clubs & pubs | |||
Dogan Arif, 42 (ex Fisher Ath manager) jailed for 14 years in Nov 90 | |||||
Jimmy “The Ayatollah” Phillips, 32 (in 98) jailed for 20 years for armed robberies | |||||
Dennis Arif, then 44, jailed for 22 years in 1990 for armed robbery | |||||
Mehmet Arif, then 49, jailed for 18 years for same job (Securicor van in Reigate) | |||||
Kenny Baker RIP | Third member of the gang was shot by police | ||||
Joe Hartfield, 51, jailed for 23 years for heroin trafficking (see Bekir) | |||||
Les Lucas, 45, got 13 years for same offence | |||||
Patrick Molloy, 40, got four years | |||||
Yusef Arif (father), RIP died of heart attack after Abi Abdullah died | |||||
The Daleys | London (South) | Peter Daley | head-strong/violent | fled to Spain after bungled attempt to kill Brindle | |
with Irish connections | ostensibly a property dealer | ||||
Joe Daley | staunch | ||||
John Daley, brother | landlord of the Queen Elizabeth pub in Walworth | ||||
The Hiscocks | London | ? | ? | ? | |
The Reillys | London (North) | George Reilly and | ? | ? | |
his brothers, Tommy | |||||
and ? | |||||
The O’Sullivans | Essex/London (East) | Ronnie O’Sullivan’s | jail | chain of sex shops | |
dad | and pornography | ||||
The Brothers Grim | Twickenham/ | Aaron and Boyce | ? | ? | ? |
Teddington | Newman | ||||
Ellis Martin | Southgate, N London | Ellis Martin (black)41 | jailed for 9 yrs in Dec 99 for bootlegging | drink smuggling | |
and ordered to pay #10m in tax or serve | empire | ||||
another five years. | |||||
Jason Vella | Essex | Jason Vella, 27, jailed in 1996 for 17 years for drugs offences, | drugs | ||
(torturer) | assault and false imprisonment | (speed, ecstasy) | |||
Simon Renaldi, 23, jailed for 6 years and 8 months in 1996 | |||||
Scott Hunt, 22, jailed for 5 years | |||||
James Skeets, 21, jailed for 2 years | |||||
Tony Barker, 31, jailed for 3 years | |||||
Anthony Dann, 25, jailed for 3 years | |||||
Paul Humphreys | Kent | Paul Humphreys, businessman, acquitted in Feb 00 on a | drugs (cannabis) | ||
technicality of cannabis smuggling | |||||
John Bull, ex-policeman | |||||
Ruddock/McGinlay | London (South) | Mark Ruddock | jailed for 9 years for robbing a holiday | armed robbery | |
Bermondsey | Lennie McGinlay | park in Essex in 1999 | |||
Anthony Mitchell | Brighton | Anthony Mitchell, gunsmith and underworld armourer | guns | ||
jailed for 8 years in Apr 99 for weapons offences | |||||
Ian Parkhouse | London (West) | Ian Parkhouse, 41, jailed for 9 years in Jun 1998 for torturing a Scottish dealer who’d failed to sell drugs. Kenny Evans, 29, jailed for 30 months. Chris Little, 27, jailed for 3 years. Sam Batanoni, 21, was also jailed and Stephen Crook, was also jailed | drugs (cannabis) | ||
Street gangs: | |||||
DBG
9th Street 22GZ (Wood Green) OFB (Broadwater Farm) Sin Squad/NPK (Northumberland Park) #900 #AP/GMG CHINGBLOCK #Leytonstone 7th gang 12th Manor Park iLLMADE 8910 Barking 6th gang Custom House Gang 13th gang 15th gang #HOMERTON London Fields Holly Street Lisson Green Mandem/Edgware Road Boys ER AR (ARMED RESPONSE) Monsoon Bloodset Queens Road NM/2 PR15/NBR Zone 2 198 Block 5 410 gang Cassava MBlock Claptown 67 Gang 417 Tooting #Mitcham CRO CR7 M20/SMG Gipset UpTop LTH |
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James Hurley | South London | Hurley was finally extradited from Spain and jailed for murder. James Hurley, 54, took part in an armed robbery in Hemel Hempstead during which PC Frank Mason was shot.He pleaded guilty to robbery but denied murder and told the Court of Appeal he was intimidated into keeping quiet by Charles McGhee, the man who pulled the trigger. The Appeal Court rejected his claim in Dec 2016. | |||
The Whites | London (South) | Tony White, 53 (one of Brinks Mat robbers) jailed for 11.5 years in Jul 97 for | |||
gang caught by | Catford | masterminding a massive cocaine and cannabis smuggling ring | freed on appeal | ||
Operation Stealer | Now out of jail and living in Spain. | smuggled Colombian | |||
ex-Bertie Small gang> | John Short, sidekick, 58, Croydon, jailed for 9.5 years | cocaine (Pevensey Bay) | |||
Brian Doran, 52, multilingual university graduate known as The Professor | |||||
from Bellshill, jailed for 25 years | DORAN & TOGHER released in | ||||
Kenneth Togher, 33, Bellshill, jailed for 25 years | 1999 after Court of Appeal threw out convictions on a technicality | ||||
Terry Reeve, 49, Norwood, jailed for 18 years | |||||
George Cacavalle, 56, Highgate, jailed for 18 years | |||||
Dermot Trainer, 44, Bromley, jailed for 8 years | |||||
Stephen McKeown, 36, South London, jailed for 8 years | |||||
The Norrises | London (South East) | Cliff Norris | jailed for 9 years for drug smuggling | Very close to police | |
(father of David Norris, one of Stephen Lawrence’s killers) | |||||
and brother Alex Norris | |||||
Securicor gang | London SE1 | Steve Dickson, 52 | SE1 | Charged with conspiracy to rob Securicor in summer of 2004 | |
Steve Howard, 49 | Rotherhithe | ditto | |||
Paul Johnson, 51 | Rotherhithe | ditto | |||
Richard Hall, 52 | Croydon | ditto | |||
Joe Wilkins | London (South) | Joe Wilkins | Arrested in 1987 | Jailed for 10 yrs in | Rearrested in 1992 |
based in Soho | bringing hashish | 1988 but escaped | and taken to Highpoint | ||
from Morocco for a | from HMP Ford in | but fled during dentist’s | |||
Police informer (used in failed sting in 2003) | S London syndicate | 1991 | appointment | ||
? | London/Herts | Raymond Ketteridge | Jailed for video | Also implicated in a | |
(aged 27 in 1995) | piracy in 1995 | major share scam | |||
Stephen Jory | London | Counterfeit money | Jailed for 8 years | Co-defendants were | |
in 2000 in £50m plot | Martin Watmough | ||||
and Kenneth Mainstone | |||||
Brian Wright | Born in Kilburn | Drugs (cocaine) | On the run. In hiding | Several jockeys | He was banned for |
aka The Milkman | (Merseyside connections) | in Cyprus | were implicated | 20 years by the | |
Also has links with | with him | Jockey Club | |||
horse racing community | |||||
His son was busted | |||||
for drugs. | |||||
Tooti-Nungs (aka | London (West) | #30m extortion racket among Sikhs | |||
The Evil Ones) | Southall | ||||
The Holy Smokes | ditto | originally vigilantes | |||
Bristol |
In 2018 Andy Baker, 52, was jailed for eight years for smuggling cocaine and ecstasy. His associate Adam Hoddinott, 48, from Bath, was jailed for 12 years. Both were convicted at a separate blackmail trial, which related to conspiracies in which money was demanded from local businessmen with menaces, as part of an illegal debt-collecting operation. Eight other men were jailed – David Woolley, 54, from Plymouth, was jailed for 12 years, Carl Newman, 38, from Cadbury Heath, was sentenced to nine years, Jon Gordon, 47, from Thornton Heath, London, was sentenced to eight years, Matthew Sellars, 40, from Kingswood, was jailed to six years, Justin Green, 45, from Brentwood, Essex, Danny Bond, 46, from Warlingham, Surrey and Andrew Wylde, 50, from Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
In August 2005 Baker – a Crystal Palace supporter – had been arrested, along with several other men, after QPR chairman Gianni Paladini was allegedly threatened with a gun before a match. Baker was later acquitted of blackmail and other offences at a trial, which heard of attempts to take over the club.
In 2006 Baker was also acquitted of conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm with intent on Aaron Chapman on October 10, 2002. Chapman, a prison officer, was murdered by Mark Dorling, a nightclub bouncer who worked for Baker.
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EAST MIDLANDS | |||||
The Dawes Cartel | Nottingham | In 2005 John Dawes was jailed for 24 years on drugs charges in the UK. His father, Arthur, was jailed for 8 years. Rob Dawes fled to Spain.
In 2018 Rob Dawes went on trial in Paris accused of smuggling 1.3 tons of cocaine into France. His co-accused including three members of the Camorra – namely from the Amato-Pagano clan (aka Secessionists of Secondigliano) who are allegedly one of his international partners. |
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WEST MIDLANDS | |||||
The Porter family | Birmingham | ? | |||
The Glyptis family | West Midlands | ? Glyptis | travellers (Gypsies) | drugs | |
Dudley | |||||
Mohammad Shahzad | Birmingham | Aged 42 (in 2000), Pakistani heroin trafficker jailed for 20 years in 1991. Drugs | |||
The Johnson Crew | Birmingham | Drugs (crack) and | Jermaine Carty (aka Wooligan) – acquitted of possessing firearm | ||
(Aston/Lozells) | Guns | Marcus Walker – awaiting trial for murder of Yohanne Martin in Dec 2002 | |||
Leon Harris – survived shooting attack which killed Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis | |||||
subdivided into factions: | |||||
Baby Johnsons | |||||
Champagne Crew | |||||
Badda Bar Boys | |||||
Cash For Money Crew | ditto | ditto | |||
The Raiders | ditto | ditto | |||
The Burger Bar Boys | Birmingham | ditto | Yohanne “13” Martin | shot dead in Dec 2002 | |
Nathan “23” Martin | (brother). Jailed for life in Mar 05 for murder of Letisha and Charlene | ||||
Marcus “E-Man” Ellis | Jailed for life in Mar 05 for murder of Letisha and Charlene | ||||
Michael “Chunk” Gregory. Jailed for life in Mar 05 for murder of Letisha and Charlene | |||||
Rodrigo “Sonny” Simms. Jailed for life in Mar 05 for murder of Letisha and Charlene | |||||
Tafarwa Beckford | Acquitted of murder of Letisha and Charlene. | ||||
Kairo Beckford (brother). Jailed for life in Nov 04 for murder of Daniel Bogle | |||||
In 2017 several men were given injunctions, including two men believed to have been the “armed response” faction of the Burger Bar Boys.
Reial Phillips, 21, from Winson Green was jailed for 27 years last year after seven people were injured in a series of shootings during a feud with members of the Johnson Crew. His co-defendant 23-year-old Ashai Gray, from Walsall, was jailed for nine years after admitting conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin. |
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In 2016 the following men got special injunctions to prevent them being involved in gang or gun crime:
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Reans Crew One | Wolverhampton (Whitmore Reans) | street gang | |||
Up-To-Date Crew | Wolverhampton (known as UDC) | street gang | |||
Dudley Raiders | Dudley | street gang | |||
The Boss Crew | Dudley | street gang | |||
NORTH EAST | |||||
Brian Charrington et al | North East | Brian Charrington | cocaine/heroin/cannabis dealer | He lives in Spain (CPS dropped | |
extradition proceedings in Jul 99) | |||||
Paddy Conroy | North East | Paddy Conroy | kidnapping/blackmail | extradited from Spain in 1995 and jailed | |
Sayers gang | North East | John Sayers (serving 15 years in HMP Durham) | |||
Stephen Sayers (brother) served 2 years for beating up a | |||||
S London doorman | |||||
Billy & John Carruthers | Sunderland | drugs | |||
Harrison family | Newcastle | everything | ? | ||
NORTH WEST | |||||
Curtis Warren et al | Merseyside | serving 12 years in a Dutch jail for drug trafficking but will come out to | |||
(aged 34 in 1997) | (from Toxteth) | a #59m nest egg which police haven’t found. | He corrupted DI Elmore Davies (Mersey Blues) | ||
caught by Operation Crayfish | associated with the Glennon family (related by marriage) – Phillip Glennon Sr and Phillip Glennon Jr (serving 6 years) | ||||
related to The Glennons | Warren dealt in Turkish heroin, Moroccan cannabis and | ||||
Colombian cocaine. He later diversified into property. | |||||
His partners were Stephen Mee, 38, from Liverpool, | |||||
Stephen Whitehead, 35, from Oldham (both got 7 years) | |||||
Mee is on the run after escaping | |||||
Other gang members were Liverpudlians William Fitzgerald, 56, | |||||
William Riley, 48 and Raymond Nolan, 29, who were jailed for 3 years | |||||
John Farrell, 35, from Middleton, Manchester, was jailed for 12 months | |||||
Also jailed were James Styles, John Newton, the McCormick brothers | |||||
and Javier Artehuotuo, all jailed for 7 years. | |||||
Colin Borrows was a friend of Warren | |||||
The Lawlor family | Merseyside | Stevie Lawlor, 34, a former associate of Curtis Warren, was suspected of | |||
murdering car dealer John Haselden in 1997 but never charged. | |||||
In May 2001 he was shot dead by rival gangster Peter Clarke (see Clarke family) | |||||
The Lawlors then apparently killed Clarke’s brother Ian in revenge in Sep 01 | |||||
but in Oct 01 the Clarkes retaliated by killing Lawlor’s brother, Tony, 45 | |||||
The feud does not appear to be over. The Lawlors are heavily involved in nightclub security (and therefore drugs) | |||||
Smith’s gang | Merseyside | Frank Smith, millionaire drugs importer. Jailed for 25 ears in 2003 for big heroin importation (by lorry) | |||
Tony “Jelly” O’Toole. Right hand man. Jailed for 19 yrs ditto | |||||
Anthony “Fatty” Healey. Jailed for 8 yrs ditto | |||||
Alan “The Roofer” Gerrard. Distributor. Ailed for 8 years. | |||||
The Clarke family | Merseyside | In Dec 01 Peter Clarke, 23, a corporal in British Army on weekend leave, | |||
(esp Netherley) | was jailed for life for the murder of Stevie Lawlor (see Lawlor family above) | ||||
In Sep 01 Clarke’s brother, Ian, 32, was murdered in apparent revenge | |||||
In Oct 01 the tit-for-tat continued with Lawlor’s brother Tony murdered. | |||||
There is only one Clarke brother alive and free – Stephen Clarke, who works | |||||
for Merseyside’s biggest nightclub security firm Premiere Security Retail | |||||
The Ungi family | Merseyside | In May 1995 David Ungi was shot dead as he drove through Toxteth. | |||
(white) | His killers were rival drug dealer Johnny Phillips and a few cronies (Ungi had beaten Phillips in a fist fight) | ||||
Ungi’s brothers Colin and Brian are still around as is their cousin, Colin Fitzgibbon who survived a shooting in Feb 1995. | |||||
Edward Gray | Merseyside | aka The Bear. Jailed for 24 years in July 2000 for masterminding | |||
aged 40 in 2000 | supply of heroin and ecstasy. Comes from West Derby. Worth #20m | ||||
miscellaneous | Merseyside | Jailed in March 1998 for heroin and cocaine dealing: | |||
Phillip Brown, 40, for 23 years, Michael Melia, 33, for 21 years | |||||
Joseph Noon, 30, for 18 years and Mark Riley, 28, for 19 years | |||||
Khalid Rahman aka | Merseyside | half-caste drug dealer/gangster | |||
Ammo | |||||
Charles Seiga | Merseyside | heroin dealer. In 1997 he was acquitted of murdering George ‘Doors’ Bromley, 33. | |||
(aged 58, in 1999) | In Nov 1998 he was kidnapped and tortured by Bromley’s associates, Alan Lea | ||||
and Brian Airey before being released by police. | |||||
Tommy Comerford | Merseyside | His former partner Brian ‘Snowy’ Jennings died in jail in 1993. | |||
(fat, laughs a lot) | Comerford was an armed robber who diversified into drugs in 1980s. | ||||
Released in 1994 after 14-year stretch for heroin importation, he is thought to have gone back to work | |||||
The Showers family | Merseyside | Toxteth-based. Michael, a former community worker, was jailed for 20 years in 1991 for drug dealing. | |||
(black) | His brother Delroy is based in Amsterdam. | ||||
Wilfred ‘Panama’ Jones | Merseyside | Killed two people in 1970. Jailed for life. Now free. | |||
The Duress family | Merseyside | ? | |||
not sure who | Cheshire/ | Anthony Murray | Went on the run in | Spotted by police | Arrested in Benalmadena, |
they’re allied with | Merseyside | from Wilmslow | 2002 after 10kg of | in Midlands in 2003 | Spain in Nov 03 |
dob 23/4/54 | heroin found in | but rammed cars | and was extradited. | ||
Liverpool | to escape | ||||
ditto | Thomas Hudson | Caught after ditto | Jailed for 11 yrs in 2003 | ||
from Liverpool 5/41 | (he was the man who went to Amsterdam to meet underworld bosses) | ||||
Mehmet Yildirim | ditto | Jailed for 15 yrs in 2003 | |||
Turkish. 21/3/56 | from Tottenham | ||||
Doddington gang | Manchester | drugs (Moss Side) | |||
Gooch Close gang | Manchester | drugs (Moss Side) | stronghold is The Sports pub in Whalley Range | ||
Cheetham Hill gang | Manchester | drugs | |||
The Longsight Crew | Manchester | drugs | Julian Bell, 26, was the boss (his little brother, Orville, was killed | ||
(Longsight area) | in 1999 by the Gooch Close gang). | ||||
In 2004 Bell was jailed for 20 years for possession of drugs and guns | |||||
In 2003 Bell’s chief minder, Richard Solomon, was jailed for life for the murder of DJ Stephen Amos | |||||
Paul Massey | Manchester | protection rackets | Aged 39 in 2000, he is serving 14 years for stabbing | ||
a man in the groin. Ran protection rackets in Manchester | |||||
and owns properties worth #5m all over Europe. From Salford. | |||||
Gerald McLeish | Manchester | drug importation | Aged 42 in May 03 | Jailed for 24 years for conspiracy to import Class A and B drugs | |
(E, coke, speed) | (‘managing | (Bolton Crown Court May 03) after setting up a car spares company | |||
caught by Operation Torch | director’) | (Augustus Services) which smuggled drugs via an industrial estate in | |||
(raids in Apr 2001) | Failsworth, Oldham. | ||||
Paul Bell | Bolton | ditto | Aged 38. | Jailed for 20 years | ditto |
Nigel Hughes | Coventry | ditto | Aged 36 | ditto | ditto |
Ian Longden | Blackley, Manchestr | ditto | Aged 39 | Jailed for 11 years | ditto |
Christian Wolfendale | Radcliffe, Bury | ditto | Aged 35 | Jailed for 14 years | ditto |
Paul Dunn | Prescot, Liverpool | ditto | Aged 34 | Jailed for 12 years | ditto |
Simon Balshaw | Radcliffe, Bury | ditto | Aged 30 | Jailed for 10 years | ditto |
Paul Earle | Liverpool | ditto | Aged 36 | Jailed for 18 months | ditto |
Robert Garlick | Oldham | drug dealer (cannabis) | dob 8/10/51 | Jailed for 6 yrs in | May have gone to |
2003 but absconded | Spain. NCS asked | ||||
from HMP Sudbury | public to help track him down. | ||||
in Dec 2004 | They want to confiscate his assets | ||||
Anthony Bracken | Oldham | ditto | born in 1939 | ditto | Jailed for 2 years in |
2003. Paid £5k in confiscation | |||||
YORKSHIRE | |||||
Ray Spencer | Morley, Leeds | drugs (cannabis) | Aged 50 in 2002. Jailed for 12 years in May 2002 | ||
for drug smuggling. NCS said he had connections with | |||||
criminals in various countries (inc Turkey) | |||||
Spencer’s associated | Leeds | Michael Smith | |||
Halifax | Charles Poyser | ||||
Nottingham | Darren Holt/Stephen Needham | ||||
WALES | |||||
Darren Owen | Cardiff | amphetamines, | Aged 38 in 2002. Went on the run in Aug 2002 after | ||
cocaine & cannabis | several of his associates were arrested and drugs | ||||
worth £1m seized. | £10,000 and a Mauser gun were found | ||||
at his former marital home | |||||
Paul Jeffreys, 39 | Llanelli | drugs | Former car dealer who was jailed for 16 years for | ||
(in 2003) | masterminding drugs and money laundering operation. | ||||
Had £459,000 confiscated from him in Mar 2003 | |||||
Richard Hughes, 30 | Swansea | ditto | Friend of Jeffreys, who helped him launder money. | ||
Was also the gang’s enforcer. Jailed for 10 years. | |||||
Jason Fisher, 31 | Folkestone | ditto | Headed the Kent end of the gang. Jailed for 14 years | ||
Steven Summers, 31 | Llanelli | ditto | Jailed for 6 years | ||
Alan Thomas, 37 | Pontardawe | dittp | Jailed for 7 years | ||
Freddy Lawrence, 35 | Folkestone | ditto | Jailed for 11 years | ||
BIKER GANGS | |||||
Hell’s Angels | nationwide | NP claims they are not an organised gang. | |||
(inc The Lost Tribe, | (Herts) | ||||
which was made | |||||
honorary member | Lea Valley chapter, | Ronald ‘Gut’ Wait jailed for 15 years for attacking two Outcasts | |||
when Outcasts tried to | Beds | at Rockers’ Reunion in Battersea in 1997 | |||
take it over) | |||||
Hells Angels (and allied Red Devils)
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Przemyslaw Korkus, 41, and Bartosz Plesniak, 34, from Slough, were jailed for 14 years at Kingston Crown Court in 2019 for attacking an outbuilding at the Forman Club and Institute in Blindley Heath, Surrey, shortly before 7.30pm on 7 November 2018.
Dressed in balaclavas and dark clothing, 13 people were spotted on CCTV walking towards the venue before bursting in armed with weapons and attacking members of the Warg Brotherhood and the Vikings Motorcycle Club who were holding their weekly meeting. Seven men suffered serious stab wounds and blunt force injuries. One victim had been stabbed through his right arm and another required bowel surgery and 29 staples after being stabbed in the stomach. Judge Stephen John described the incident as a ‘turf war’ which was engaged by prospective gang members who were looking to ‘earn their spurs’. David Jacobs, 28, from Rickmansworth, Ladislav Szalay, 32, from Harrow, Tamas Tomacsek, 38, from Enfield, Piotr Zamijewski, 45, from Hayes, were all jailed for 14 years. Jimi Kidd, 39, from Haywards Heath, was found not guilty of possession of an offensive weapon and possession of a bladed article but guilty of the other charges. |
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The Road Rats | allies of HA | ||||
Satan Slaves | ditto | ||||
The Outcasts | nationwide | Richard ‘Stitch’ Anderson from Poole, Dorset | |||
jailed for 3 years in Jun 99 for possession of drugs and guns | |||||
The Outlaws | nationwide | Mark Brown, 29, from Leicester, was jailed for 4 years in | enemies of HA | ||
2000 for stabbing a stranger | |||||
The Cycle Tramps | Birmingham | ? | enemies of Hell’s Angels | ||
The Bandidos | nationwide | ditto | |||
The Scorpios | St Austell, Cornwall | Gary Mills and | ditto | ||
Mark ‘Snoopy’ Dyce | jailed for 9 years in 1993 | ||||
The Ratae | Leicester | enemies of Pagans | |||
The Pagans | Leamington Spa | enemies of Ratae | |||
Tottenham Man Dem (TMD) | Mark Lambie (16.3.71) | lived in | drugs, extortion, | Jailed for kidnapping |
Streatham | stand-over robbery | in May 2002 | ||
Warren Leader (21.2.80) | Broadwater | Ditto | ||
Farm | ditto | |||
Francis Osei (23.3.81) | ditto | ditto | ditto | |
Clint Ponton (aged 19) | ditto | ditto | Acquitted of all | |
charges in May 2002 | ||||
Mark Duggan | Killed in Tottenham 2011 | |||
The Firm | Anthony ‘Blue’ Bourne | ditto | ditto | ditto |
(9.11.80) | ||||
FRANCE
Francis ‘The Belgian’ | Marseille | drugs | shot dead in a Paris | ||
Vanverberghe | (had ‘retired’ to Paris) | (served 12 years for heroin | betting shop in | ||
aged 54 | smuggling in 1977 after | Sept 2000. Assassin | |||
(his brother was murdered in | being caught in “French | unknown. | |||
1992) | Connection” raid) | ||||
money-laundering, pimping | |||||
Roger ‘Lunettes’ Spanu | Marseille | gaming machines | shot dead in March | ||
(Roger Glasses), aged 37 | (since their legalisation in | 1999 by rivals | |||
1996 they have become | |||||
more profitable than drugs) | |||||
and the cause of turf wars | |||||
Jean Dominique Fratoni | Nice | Drugs | Have close contacts | ||
(owned Casino Ruhl) | with La Cosa Nostra | ||||
Sommatino clan (Italian) | based in | ||||
Jean Pierre Zolotas, leader | Grenoble | murdered in 1995 | killed by a biker | almost certainly work of French gangsters | |
Antonio Sapone, ditto | murdered in 1996 | with hunting rifle | who resented Italian invasion | ||
Giacomo Pagano (58) arrested in 1993, he ruled Grenoble for Calogero Pulci, the boss of Sommatino in Sicily. | |||||
Solaro is now the only living witness for the SRPJ, the regional detective squad of Lyon, he is severely handicapped after an ambush in which they cut of his tongue and mutilated his jaws. | |||||
Daniel Bellanger, 43, | Barcelona | Arrested in Barcelona Dec 2000 (Operation Bear) | Responsible for an | ||
and co-accused: | audacious armed | ||||
Christian Oraison, 45, and | Barcelona | ditto | Armed Robbery | robbery on a security | |
co-accused: | van in Gentilly, Paris | ||||
Eduardo Carnicero,38,Spanish | Barcelona | ditto | Armed Robbery | in Dec 2000 and also | |
a gems/cash raid at | |||||
(Michel Crutel, French) | shot dead in a shoot-out in Algeciras, Spain in May 1999 | Malaga Airport in | |||
Aug-99 | |||||
GERMANY AND AUSTRIA
Rita Draxler | Vienna | Arms smuggling (for Balkans) | ? |
and nuclear material trading | |||
Harold Schlesinger | Eastern Europe | Semi-legit. Runs casinos in | doing well |
Estonia (eg Olympic in Tallinn) | |||
and elsewhere in E Europe | |||
owns SCHLESINGER AS | |||
Klaus Speer | Berlin | Ex-pimp. Now runs prostitution, | Jailed for 5 years in |
fraud, extortion, loansharking, | 1993. Now free again | ||
gambling and corruption. | |||
Vietnamese gangs | Berlin | Illegal immigrants who peddle | In May 1996 seven Vietnamese |
(Quang Binh and | (10,000 Vietnamese | in smuggled cigarettes. Have | gangsters were tied up and shot |
Ngoc Thien) | people live in Berlin | strong connections in Russia | dead in Berlin. The prime |
& 30,000 in rest of | and E Europe and SE Asia. | suspect, Fan Van Tien, was | |
Germany) | (cheap Marlboros etc) | arrested in Moscow in 1997 | |
(Bahnhofzoo and | |||
E Berlin estates) | Ngoc Thien leader Le Duy Bao | ||
Leipzig | aka Ngoc The Merciful (N Viet) | ||
was arrested in 1997 along with | |||
most of his gang. Quang Binh | |||
now dominate. |
GREECE AND CYPRUS
THIS PAGE INCLUDES GREEK AND GREEK CYPRIOT GANGS. FOR TURKISH CYPRIOTS SEE TURKISH | ||||||
APART FROM INDIGENOUS CYPRIOT GANGS THERE ARE ALSO RUSSIAN AND ISRAELI MAFIAS INVOLVED IN CYPRUS | ||||||
Gang | Main men | Base | Business | Events/Status | ||
The Aeroporos clan | Andros Aeroporos, 32 | Limassol | Nightclubs, drugs | Shot dead in July 1998 | ||
outside the Show Palace | ||||||
in Limassol (had been | ||||||
acquitted in June 1998 | ||||||
of attempted murder of | ||||||
Antonis Fanieros | ||||||
Charalambos Aeroporos, 35 | ditto | ditto | Also acquitted | |||
(aka Hambis Aeroporos) | Later murdered | |||||
Panicos Aeroporos, 25 | ditto | ditto | Also acquitted | |||
Michalis Aeroporos | ||||||
Tassos Simellides | ditto | ditto | Was getaway driver in | |||
attack on Fanieros (became | ||||||
prosecution witness) | ||||||
The Fanieros clan | Loucas Fanieros, 32 | Larnaca | Nightclubs, drugs | Suspected of killing | ||
Andros Aeroporos | ||||||
Antonis Fanieros, 58 | ditto | ditto | Survived assassination | |||
attempt in May 1997 | ||||||
The Grigorakis | Theodoros Grigorakis | Athens | Drugs | |||
family | ||||||
Peter Sedhom, 31 | Athens | Drugs | Jailed for life in 1990 for | In May 2002 | ||
(American) | the murder of a university | he escaped | ||||
student, Stefania Sardi, | from Korydallos | |||||
aged 20, who was a | prison but | |||||
witness in a drugs trial | later surrendered |
Kitas gang | Antonis Kitas | Convicted rapist and | ||
murderer, who | ||||
Mamas Kitas, brother | masterminded | |||
Tassos Papodopoulos | ||||
bodysnatching in 2010 | ||||
HOLLAND
? | Jan Hendrik Ijpelaar | Amsterdam | Drugs | Jailed for 6 years in |
1992 for ecstasy and | ||||
cannabis trafficking | ||||
(to Ireland) | ||||
Czech mafia | ? | Amsterdam | Drugs | Believed to be |
responsible for the | ||||
murder of Derek Dunne | ||||
(Irish drug dealer and | ||||
son-in-law of George | ||||
“The Penguin” Mitchell | ||||
in 2000) | ||||
? | George Mitchell | SEE IRISH INDEX | ||
Pieter Timus Versluif | Sliedrecht | Drugs? | Survived being shot | |
39 | twice in the face in | |||
Swanley, Kent in | ||||
Feb-03 | ||||
The Organization | Klaas Bruinsma | Drugs | Shot dead in 1991 | |
(born 1953 Amsterdam) | by Martin Hoogland | |||
ally of Roy Adkins (UK) | ||||
Thea Moear | right-hand-woman | |||
Etienne Urka | sidekick who took over | Drugs (hashish) | Jailed for 6 years in | |
(born 1954 Surinam) | when Bruinsma dies | 1998 | ||
Robert Mink Kok (born in June 1961) was convicted in 1996 and 2000 for involvement in the trade in arms and drugs and in 2013 for smuggling dozens of kilos of cocaine. His nickname is De Denker (The Thinker). He has been threatened with prosecuted since 2006 for involvement in murder of the Alkmaar hash dealer Jaap van der Heiden. in 1993. Mink Kok has served his imposed prison sentence in Lebanon, in the infamous prison of Roumieh, just outside Beirut. |
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https://amsterdamgang.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/chronology-of-the-amsterdam-gangland/ | ||||
INDIA AND PAKISTAN
? | Chhota Rajan, boss,
aka Rajan Nikalje |
Bombay | Drugs etc | Arrested in Bangkok in 2000 but escaped after bribing guards | In 2015 he was extradited and in 2018 he was jailed for life for murder of journalist Jyotibey Dey. |
(supposedly supported by Indian intelligence) | Currently in Tihar jail | ||||
Vishal Dhakkan, 32 | ditto | ditto | arrested in Bombay | ||
in Mar 2004 | |||||
Sandeep Bendre, 33 | ditto | ||||
Shankar Salian, 26 | ditto | ||||
Sylvester Cordoz, 41 | ditto | ||||
The D Gang (seen as defenders of Mumbai’s Muslim community) | Dawood Ibrahim (supposedly supported by Pakistani intelligence ISI) | Bombay/Dubai | ditto | Believed to be the mastermind of 1993 Mumbai blasts | The blasts were in retaliation for 1992 destruction of Babir Mosque |
Chhota Shakeel, second- | ditto | now also in Dubai | Tried to kill Rajan | ||
in-command | (de facto boss since | in Bangkok in 2000 | |||
Dawood fled India) | (failed) | ||||
Mohammed Saleem aka | ditto | Failed to kill Rajan | |||
Munna Jingada, hitman | |||||
Iqbal Kaskar, Dawood’s | ditto | Extradited back to | |||
brother | India in 2003 | ||||
Ejaz Pathan, associate | ditto | ditto | |||
Mohammed Dosa, | Kathmandu | owns hotels and casino | |||
associate | |||||
Subhash Thakur, associate | ditto | ditto | |||
Sunil Sawant, associate | ditto | ||||
Mohammed Khaliq | ditto | ||||
Salim Kutta | ditto | ||||
Feroz Wahid Zafar | ditto | ||||
associate of | Abu Salem | Bombay | detained after fleeing to | He is wanted in | |
Dawood | (his girlfriend is Bollywood | (ran a Bollywood | Lisbon in 2002. In Feb | connection with | |
starlet Monica Bedi) | extortion racket) | 2004 Portugal finally | 1993 bombing in | ||
agreed to extradite him | Bombay which | ||||
back to Bombay | killed 250 people | ||||
Memon family | Ibrahim “Tiger” Memon | Bombay | on the run | thought to have | |
(allies of Dawood | masterminded 1993 | ||||
Ibrahim) | bombings which killed 257 people | ||||
Yakub Memon, brother | Bombay | Convicted in Sep 06 of the 1993 bombings | |||
(accountant) | (trial began in June 1995) | ||||
Essa Memon, brother | Bombay | ditto | |||
Yusuf Memon, brother | Bombay | ditto | |||
Rubeena Memon, | ditto | ditto | |||
sister-in-law | |||||
Hanifa Memon, mother | Bombay | acquitted | |||
Abdul Razak Memon, dad | Bombay | died before trial | |||
Suleman Memon, brother | Bombay | acquitted | |||
Rahin Memon, Yakub’s wife | acquitted | ||||
no name | Ayub Khan Afridi | Khyber Pass | former MP and friend of | CIA said he was | Went on the run in |
(ethnic Pashtun) | (owns huge palace | Nawaz Sharif | biggest drug baron | 1993 but was | |
which cost $2m to build) | in Pakistan but | caught and jailed for | |||
heroin and hashish | befriended him after | seven years. But in | |||
trafficker | 9/11 to use him | Dec 01 he was freed | |||
against Taleban | from prison in | ||||
Karachi | |||||
ASIAN STREET GANGS IN UK | |||||
The Holy Smokes | no names | Southall | set up as anti-racist | connected to murder | At war with |
vigilante group in 1970s | of Mohinder Cheema | Tooti Nungs | |||
by high-caste Sikhs, | in Hounslow in 1990 | ||||
known as Jats | (they provided gun | Run protection | |||
to hitman) | rackets | ||||
The Tooti Nungs | Jamal Dhillon, 29 (in 1989) | Southall and S London | split off from Holy Smokes | ditto | |
(which means The | (jailed for 4 yrs in 1990) | in early 1980s. Tend to | (may have been | ||
Worthless Ones) | be lower caste | involved in gang | Run protection | ||
Armarjit Sandhu, 28 (1989) | fight in 1996 which | rackets | |||
(jailed for 4 yrs in 1990) | led to death of | ||||
Harminder Singh | |||||
Jhagra | |||||
Brick Lane Massif | no names | Bethnal Green | mainly Bangladeshi | ||
Stepney St Posse | no names | Stepney | ditto | ||
Bengal Tigers | no names | E London | ditto | ||
Cannon St Posse | ditto | ditto | ditto | ||
The Apache | no names | Hounslow | mainly Muslims | ||
Shera Punjab | no names | Birmingham | Sikhs | ||
(Lions of Punjab) | |||||
The Panthers | no names | Birmingham | Sikhs | ||
Chalvey Boys | no names | Slough | Muslim | ||
IRELAND
Martin Cahill aka The General – SHOT DEAD in August 1994 (possibly by IRA acting in cahoots with rival Dublin criminals) | |
Eddie Cahill (younger brother): served 7 years for kidnapping. Released in 1988 | |
John Cahill (brother): jailed for 10 years in 1979 for armed robbery | |
Anthony Cahill (brother): died in Curragh military prison in 1983 of an overdose | |
Michael “Styky” Cahill (brother): heroin user. Jailed for 5 years in 1987. | |
Paddy Cahill (brother) | |
Hughie Delaney (drug addict/dealer) | |
Sean Fitzgerald (fraudster) | |
Michael Cunningham: released from Portlaoise jail in 1996 after serving 14 years for kidnapping Jennifer Guinness | |
John “The Colonel” Cunningham: jailed in 1986 for 17 years for Jennifer Guinness kidnap. Absconded in 1994. | |
On the run, possibly in UK. | |
Harry Melia (friend of Eddie): heroin addict. Jailed in 1989 for 17 years for drug dealing | |
Christy Dutton: (probably) jailed for 10 years in 1992 for incest | |
Michael Egan: jailed for 7 years after his garage was used after O’Connor’s jewellery heist | |
Thomas Gaffney (from Crumlin): Aged 49 in 1999. Kidnapped and tortured by IRA in 1984. | |
Martin Foley: best pal | |
Seamus ‘Shavo’ Hogan: jailed for 8 years in 1988 for robbery. Accused of being a tout because of lenient sentence. | |
Released in 1992. | |
Noel Lynch: an intermediary, used after Beit paintings robbery. | |
Eamon Daly (aged 41 in 1999): Cahill protégé from middle class background (father was a teacher). Got 12 years in 1988 for | |
attempted robbery and 5 years for receiving. | |
John Foy (brother in law): jailed in 1988 for 7 years for robbery | |
Mark Fitzgerald (getaway driver): Jailed in 1988 for 107 years for a series of armed robberies | |
Eugene Scanlon: jailed in 1989 for 8 years for firearms offences | |
Wally McGregor (from Clondalkin): now in his late 60s | |
Jo Jo Kavanagh: played the patsy in National Irish Bank kidnap/robbery. Jailed for 12 years in 1997 | |
Thomas Tynan and Brendan ‘Wetty’ Walsh, both jailed for 12 years in 1997 (Tynan was shot and needed emergency surgery) | |
OTHERS | |
John Gilligan aka The Warehouseman (pal of George Mitchell): drugs baron who ordered the killing of Veronica Guerin. | |
Major drug dealer (especially in heroin and ecstasy) who operated under the cover of the Jessbrook Equestrian Centre, nr Dublin | |
Recently extradited back to Ireland after a spell in Belmarsh. UK solicitor Stokoe 020 8558 8884 | |
George Mitchell aka The Penguin (got his name because he used to be a lorry driver delivering chocolate biscuits) | |
pal of Cahill. From Ballyfermot, N Dublin. Became an armed robber specialising in warehouse robberies. By 1991 he had got into | |
drugs (worth #10m). Arrested in Amsterdam in March 1998 for stealing computer parts. His daughter, Rachel’s boyfriend, | |
Derek Dunne, 33, was murdered in Amsterdam in June 2000 by rival Dutch/Czech drug mafia. | |
Hired hitman Mickey Boyle to the Daleys to shoot Tony Brindle in London (Boyle is now serving life in British jail). | |
John Traynor aka The Coach (aged 50 in 2000): Veronica Guerin’s best contact. A close associate of Cahill, he fled Ireland after | |
Guerin’s murder in June 1996. He fled to Spain (via Holland) and is now running a bar there. Worth #2m. Wanted in Ireland for drugs | |
and firearms offences. | |
Tony Felloni aka King Scum: jailed for 20 years in 1996 for drugs offences. First convicted in 1964 (of pimping), later turned to | |
drug dealing and was responsible for flooding Dublin with heroin in 1970s. His oldest son, Mario Angelo, 26, has AIDS and is | |
doing a 10-stretch in Parkhurst. His daughter, Anne, 25, has AIDS. Luigi, 23, is on bail and Lena, 22, is an addict. | |
Stephen ‘Rossi’ Walsh: man behind dozens of scams, jailed for blowing up a pub (he was found in the ruins). Eligible for release | |
from Limerick jail in 2005. | |
Thomas Mullen aka The Boxer: jailed for 18 years in 1998 for trafficking drugs from UK to Ireland. | |
Gerry Hutch | Worth 4m euros. Started out as an armed robber. Aged 36 (in 2000) he appeared to be a reformed character who paid back |
aka The Monk | 2m euros in unpaid tax to stay out of jail. Anti-drugs campaigner. At war with the Kinahan Cartel (feud started in 2017) |
The Dunnes | (no relation to Dunnes Stores) Heroin dealers in Dublin in 1970s and 1980s. |
Ben Dunne, wanted for smuggling in 1992. | |
Larry Dunne, moved to Birmingham after being released in 1992 | |
Shamie Dunne lives in London | |
Henry ‘Boyo’ Dunne | |
Mickey Dunne | |
Christy ‘Bronco’ Dunne is in jail until 2002 | |
Derek Dunne (related?), 33, shot dead in Amsterdam in June 2000 | |
The Ryans | Family based in city of Limerick (north side). Eddie Ryan Sr was shot dead in the Moose Bar in the city in Nov 99 |
They are engaged in a feud with the Keane family, also from north Limerick. | |
In Jan 2003 Ryan’s sons, Eddie and Kieran, were kidnapped and held for several days by enemies. They were released. | |
Five men went on trial in Nov 03 accused of killing Kieran Keane (see below): | |
James McCarthy, David Stanners, Chris ‘Smokey’ Costelloe, Anthony ‘Noddy’ McCarthy and Dessie Dundon | |
The Keanes | Family from Limerick, involved in a feud with the Ryans. |
The Keanes are believed to have killed Eddie Ryan Sr in Nov 99. | |
Gangland hard man Kieran Keane, 36, was murdered in Jan 03 (in revenge for kidnapping of Eddie Ryan Jr and his brother) | |
Drugs dealer Christy Kinahan was funding the Fallon conspiracy to launder his profits. | |
The Kinahan Cartel | |
(his son Daniel Kinahan was pictured with Miles Rodgers) | |
NON-POLITICAL GANGS, BASED IN NORTHERN IRELAND | |
Brendan ‘Speedy’ | Newry-based drug dealer, he was assassinated by the Provos in May 1999. |
Fegan | He was a friend ansd associate of Brendan Campbell, who was gunned down by DAAD in Feb 1998 |
Fegan was a protégé of Paddy Farrell, who was killed by his mistress in Sep 1997. | |
Fegan ordered the murder of Frankie Turley in 1998. | |
POLITICAL GANGS (MAINLY BASED IN NORTHERN IRELAND) | |
REPUBLICANS | |
PROVISIONAL IRA | Southern Command (based in Dublin) funds itself mainly through armed robberies, |
while Northern Command (Belfast) has more structured rackets (eg ‘revolutionary tax’ and clubs) | |
led by Padraig Wilson, 38, was IRA Officer Commanding (OC) in the Maze, serving 24 years | |
Other significant figures released under Good Friday Agreement include: | |
Damien Nicell (who murdered RUC Constable Clive Graham in Derry in 1988), | |
Peter Markey (who killed two men in a Newry car bomb) | |
Sean McKinley (responsible for a grenade murder of a soldier in Belfast), | |
Alex Murphy, 40 and Harry Maguire, 38 (who killed Cpl David Howe and Cpl Keith Wood in Belfast in 1987) | |
Eddie Copeland is a leading Belfast republican and criminal. His home was raided in Dec 2004 after the £22m Northern Bank robbery. | |
He denied being involved in the robbery. | |
INLA | Leaders have included Dominic ‘Mad Dog’ McGlinchey, murdered in the Republic in 1994, |
Gino Gallagher (leader of the Army Council faction) shot dead in Belfast in January 1996, | |
Hugh ‘Cueball’ Torney (Gallagher’s enemy) who was shot dead in Lurgan in Sept 1996 | |
Liam McAnoy was injured in the above attack | |
Liam Heffernan broke out of Maghaberry jail in Sep 1996 | |
Martin McMonagle is still in jail | |
Dessie O’Hare (who led a breakaway faction) is in Portlaoise jail serving a long sentence for kidnapping | |
IPLO | Even more extreme splinter from the INLA. Was big into drugs and some of its survivors still are (in Dublin) |
LOYALISTS | |
(FOR SCOTTISH LOYALISTS SEE THE SCOTTISH DOCUMENT) | |
UDA/UFF | Larger of the two loyalist paramilitary groups, it is also less disciplined and arguably more sectarian in nature |
Though it condemns criminals (and frequently kneecaps joydrivers etc) it is widely thought to be involved in drugs, etc | |
Leaders include: | |
Jackie McDonald – UDA brigadier in south Belfast. The most powerful man in UDA at the moment. | |
Michael Stone, 42, jailed for the Milltown Massacre in 1987 but released in 2000 under GFA | |
Bobby Philpott, 43, UFF leader (was serving 17 years) | |
Jim “Doris Day” Gray, east Belfast brigadier, survived being shot in face in Sep 2002 during feud with C Company. Leads gang nicknamed the Spice Boys | |
Billy Adams, 38, was serving 11 years. In 1994 a mobile phone was found in his cell. | |
Thompson Gilmore, 28, OC of East Antrim, from Carrickfergus, released in Sept 1999 | |
Billy “The Mexican” McFarland – UDA brigadier in County Derry and north Antrim | |
Andre Shoukri, north Belfast brigadier, is a former protégé of Adair. He was arrested in Sep 02 after having a gun in his car. Sided with mainstream UDA during Jan 03 power struggle | |
Major drug dealer (son of Egyptian father). | |
Other significant figures released under GFA are: | |
Mark Trotter and Robert Kenny (UFF) who murdered Catholic Edward Love in Enniskillen in 1985 | |
Darren Larmour and Robert Molyneaux (UFF) who served 11 years for killing a Catholic in N Belfast | |
Edward Jones (UFF) who was jailed in 1989 for killing Loughlin Maginn | |
William Bell (UFF) was the getaway driver for the sectarian murder of Jack Kielty (father of comedian Patrick Kielty) | |
John “Grug” Gregg – UDA brigadier in SE Antrim. Shot dead by Adair’s allies during Jan/Feb 03 power struggle. Huge funeral in Feb 03. | |
C Company | BREAKAWAY (pro-LVF) |
(dob June 1963) | Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair, 40, from the Shankill, who was jailed for 16 years in 1995, released under GFA but then rearrested after UVF/UDA feud broke out in 2000 |
He was freed in 2002 but was thrown out of the UDA in Sep 2002 after he sided with the LVF in a feud with the UDA’s other commanders | |
One of Adair’s men, Roy Greene, was shot dead by the HQ faction in Jan 03, following the murder of Jonathan Stewart by Adair’s gang | |
Adair was sent back inside in Dec 02 and C company lost the ensuing power struggle despite killing two UDA HQ men (inc John Gregg) | |
In Feb 03 many of Adair’s allies ran away to Scotland amid hand-to-hand fighting in the Shankill. They now live in Horwich, nr Bolton. | |
His wife is Gina “Mad Bitch” Adair (and is kid is nicknamed ‘Mad Pup”) | |
Sam “Skelly” McCrory, 32 – Adair’s best friend, he is a homosexual (leading to speculation about Adair’s own sexuality). Gunman, former UDA OC in Maze. | |
Donald “Big Donald” Hodgen, one of Adair’s closest aides. | |
Jackie “Fat Jackie” Thompson, C Company gunman in the early 1990s. | |
James “Sham” Millar (aka Boss Hogg). Former C Company driver, gunman and drug dealer. | |
William “Winkie” Dodds. Another veteran gunman and aide. | |
Gary “Smickers” Smith, aka Chiefo. Became leading gunman after 1993. | |
Samuel McBratney, 45 (in 2003), jailed for three years in 2003 for dealing in cannabis. | |
He is local boss in Larne, but its not clear who he is aligned with. | |
UVF | Smaller of the two main paramilitary groups, it makes up in discipline and arms what it lacks in manpower |
Though it condemns criminals (and frequently kneecaps joydrivers etc) it is widely thought to be involved in drugs, etc | |
Leaders include: | |
Geoff Edwards, who murdered Sinn Fein election worker Peter Corrigan in Armagh in 1982 | |
Thomas Mair, who murdered Catholic William McLaughlin in Shore Road, N Belfast | |
Sammy Austin, who served 4 years of a 10 year sentence for bomb making | |
Denis McClean, 50, who admitted 44 offences in 1989, including 3 murders and 6 attempted murders. Released Jan 1999 | |
Richard Jameson, UVF cmdr in Portadown was murdered by LVF in 1999. His brothers Bobby, Stuart, John and David are UVF men. | |
Stephen Harbinson, 35, | |
Donald Marno, 40, | |
Gary Marno, 37, | |
Alisdair McKendrie, 37 | |
Red Hand Commando | |
Robert Young, 39, charged with Johnston’s murder (his sister Nadine was charged with providing a false alibi) | |
LVF | Smallest but noisiest of the loyalist paramilitaries, it splintered off the UVF in 1994 when Billy Wright refused to stop killing Catholics |
Billy ‘King Rat’ Wright was assassinated in the Maze by INLA in Dec 1997. He loathed Adair. | |
Mark “Swinger” Fulton, who served four years for firearms offences, took over as leader and was pal of Adair. Found dead in Maghaberry prison in June 2002. | |
Other top men are Robin ‘Billy’ King’, 32, an ex UVF cmdr who served 16 years for conspiracy to murder and was acquitted of killing LVF informer David Keys in 1997 | |
Alec Kerr was released in March 1998 (he was also suspected of killing Keys but never charged) | |
The Greysteel gunmen: Torrens Knight, 28, Stephen Irwin, 24, Jeffrey Deeney, 27 and Brian McNeill, 30 (were UDA at the time but now LVF) | |
Peter McClay, 41, who killed a Catholic in 1976 | |
Gary Blair, 30, who killed SF member in 1992 | |
Norman Green, 27, Thomas Porter, 22, and Ralph Phillips, 35, jailed for 15 yrs for consp to murder (Phillips was acquitted of Keys murder) | |
Chris McMillan, 23, beat a Catholic to death with an iron bar | |
Norman Coopey, 27, jailed for killing James Morgan, 16, in 1997 | |
Robert Stewart, 39, George Watterson, 31, Rodger Crooks, 24, Mark McGuckin, 36, and Gary McGuckin, 31, | |
who were remanded for killing petty crook George Scott in 1996 | |
Ryan Robley, 28, Stephen McClean, 28, and Noel McCready, 31, ex UDR/RIR soldiers who were convicted of Poyntzpass double killing in 1998 | |
Neil Hyde (att robbery) | |
and Sam Warnock (burglary) | |
Warnock’s brother, Stephen, a drug dealer, was shot dead in Sep 2002 by UDA after Adair tried to put him in command of UDA’s East Belfast brigade | |
LVF is widely believed to be involved in drug dealing (it is thought to be the spark for UVF/LVF feud) | |
May merge with Adair’s UDA faction | |
ISRAEL
The Domrani family, who are from Sephardic Jewish community in Ashkelon. Headed by Shalom Domrani, 38. In 2013 he was charged along with Rabbi Yoram Abergil with trying to influence municipal elections in Netivot. There has been significant gang violence – including car bombs – associated with Domrani family. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/israel-gang-violence-anti-terror-tactics-ashkelon
Abergil family | Itzhak Abergil, | Lod (in central Israel) | Gambling and | Out to kill Rosenstein |
top man | protection rackets | |||
Meir Abergil, brother | ditto | ditto | ||
Shimon Zrihan | ditto | ditto | suspected of attack on | |
Ezra Gavrieli (see Alperons) | ||||
Gabriel Ben Harosh, 39 | Toronto/Las Vegas | cocaine and ecstasy | Arrested in Toronto in | |
number two in the organisation | smuggling into US | Apr-04 | ||
(front company is a construction | ||||
firm) | ||||
Hai Waknine, 32 | Los Angeles/Las Vegas | |||
Sasson Barashy, 47 | Israel (fled to Summerlin, | Bank embezzlement | Taken into custody in | |
Nevada) | ($60m) | Israel in 2004 | ||
Golan Avitan | Suspected of being behind | |||
Dec 2003 bomb attack on | ||||
Rosenstein but released | ||||
by police in June 04 | ||||
Yaniv Ben Simon | ditto | |||
Shimon Amsalem | ditto | |||
Patrick Elkarif | ditto | |||
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? | Zeev ‘Zevik’ Rosenstein | drugs? | Survived bomb blast in | |
Tel Aviv | Dec 2003 when Abergil | |||
tried to kill him. | ||||
In 2004 former energy | ||||
minister Gonen Segev was | ||||
arrested with 30,000 E | ||||
tablets smuggled in from | ||||
Holland. He is friend of Rosenstein | ||||
Ze’ev Rosenstein, currently serving a 12-year prison sentence for ecstasy distribution, was set to testify for the prosecution against Yitzhak Abergil, a man whose organization is alleged to have tried to kill Rosenstein multiple times. | ||||
Georgi Gilashvili | assassin | hired to kill Itzhak Abergil | ||
in June 2003. | ||||
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Abutbul family | Charlie Abutbul | Netanya/Prague/Eilat | casinos/embezzling | Owned casino boats |
which operated in Gulf of | ||||
Eilat (seized by govt in | ||||
Jan 2004) | ||||
Francois Abutbul | Were involved in the Trade | |||
Bank embezzlement | ||||
(and laundered cash at | ||||
casinos) | ||||
Felix Abutbul | Prague | casinos | Shot dead in Prague in | |
Aug-02 | ||||
Assi Abutbul, son of Felix | Netanya | casinos | On the run from | |
Alex Barak | Tel Aviv | spent 9 yrs in UK | shot and seriously | |
aka The Mystery Man | jail for attempted | wounded leaving his | ||
kidnap of a Nigerian | home in Tel Aviv Jul 03 | |||
minister | ||||
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Alperon brothers | Ya’acov Alperon | Givat Shmuel, nr Tel Aviv | Drug dealing, arson, | |
(12 brothers and | counterfeiting, gambling | |||
sistrs) | Nissin Alperon | extortion, loansharking | ||
Moshe Alperon | lost a leg in a bomb | |||
attack in 1995 | ||||
Arieh Alperon | In jail | |||
Mussa Alperon | Tried to infiltrate the Likud | |||
Party. | ||||
Gregory Lerner | SEE RUSSIAN MAFIA | |||
Ezra Gavrieli | Survived bomb attack | |||
(father of MP Inbal | when the bomb fell off | |||
Gavrieli) | under his car | |||
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Bedouin gang | ? | Negev desert | ||
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Ramat Amidar gang | Yossi Harari, boss | drug smuggling, fraud | ||
extortion, money | ||||
laundering | ||||
Nissim Yamin, 35 | Holon | suspected of murder | turned state’s witness in | |
(in wheelchair) | of Shimon Hadif | case against Yossi Harari | ||
(Pardes-Katz gang) | ||||
Israeli mafia in | Lior Saadt (aged 31 in 2001) | diamond smuggling | wanted for the 1999 murder | |
South Africa | boss of the | too | of Shai Avissar (a | |
South African | diamond dealer) who | |||
branch | was his boss. He then | |||
killed Avissar’s widow, | ||||
Belfast-born Hazel Crane | ||||
in Nov 2003. | ||||
Also killed were witnesses | ||||
Julio Bascelli & Carlo Binne | ||||
Amir Moilla | ditto. On the run. | |||
henchman | ||||
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Pardes Katz gang | Yitzhak Hadif | Pardes Katz | ||
boss | (town near Netanya?) | |||
Shimon Hadif, brother | murdered by Nissim | |||
Yamin (of Ramat Amidar gang) | ||||
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MISCELLANEOUS VILLAINS | ||||
Micha Aslan, 47 | Jerusalem | Boss in 1980s. | Shot dead in Eilat in Jun 03 | |
Yisrael Mizrahi | Tel Aviv | led Israeli mafia in | drugs, gasoline | Killed by car bomb in 03- |
(aka Alice), 58 | Brooklyn, NY in 1980s | racketeering | (had been suspected of | |
killing Albert “Babar” Shushan | ||||
in 1988 and Michael | ||||
Markowitz in 1989 (both NY) | ||||
Yehuda Attias | NY | ditto | heroin and cocaine | |
(aka Johnny) | smuggling, extortion | |||
ITALY
Apulia (Sacra Corona Unita)
SCU (SACRA CORONA | Lecce | N’drangheta boss Giuseppe | ||||
UNITA) | Rogoli formed SCU Dec 83 | |||||
Lecce | Donato Natelli (boss of Lecce) | arrested in 1997 | ||||
Have strong connections | ||||||
with criminals and | Antonio Dodaro, friend | killed by his own men | ||||
corrupt police in | ||||||
Yugoslavia/Montenegro | Massimo Guerrieri, | arrested in 1989 | ||||
(eg Vaso Baosic, arrested | Mario Tornese, | ditto | ||||
in Bari 1997) | Angelo Vincenti, | ditto | ||||
Pasquale Zolina, | ditto | |||||
They also have close | Cosimo Prinari. | ditto | ||||
links with the Albanian | Tonino Screti (48), capo | arrested in 1991 | ||||
mafia in Durres (drugs | Vito Valente (25), capo | ditto | ||||
and prostitution) | Cosimo Pascariello (27), capo | ditto | ||||
Filippo Locorotondo (34), capo | ditto | |||||
Aldo Pelle, capo | ditto | |||||
Raffaele Brandi (36), capo | ditto | |||||
Angelo Pagliara (28), capo | ditto | |||||
they rule the whole area | Luigi Giannelli | Arrested (murder) ’95 | ||||
and different bosses rule | ||||||
their own areas | Brindisi | Santo Vantaggiato | shot dead in Bar, | |||
aka Santino | Montenegro 01/09/1998 | |||||
Bari | Corrado Cucurachi, 39 | Arrested in Bari in | ||||
BOSS | (in 2004). | Feb-04 | ||||
Tuturano | Maria Rasaria Bucarella,42 | arrested in Dec 1997 | ||||
(sister of Salvatore, in jail) | in control of smuggling drugs from Montenegro | |||||
Brindisi | Gianfranco Pugliese, boss | |||||
Latiano | Giuseppe Gagliardi, boss | |||||
Mesagne | Giovanni Donatiello, boss | |||||
Antonio Vitale, underboss | escapes from jail 1994, arrested in Montenegro 1996 | |||||
Nardo | Marcello Dell Anna, boss, 26 | in 1993 | ||||
Matino | Vittorio De Luca, boss | killed on Rogoli’s | ||||
orders in 1986 | ||||||
Taurisano | Scarlino clan | |||||
Cosimo Rizzo, 29, arrested in 1996 when fleeing to Tunisia | ||||||
? | Antonino Pagano, a boss, 44 | arrested in 1996 | ||||
MonteronidiLecce | Tornese clan | drugs (Germany) | ||||
Mario Tornese, 35 | 5bn lire of goods confiscated in 1997 | |||||
Rimini | Angelo Basile (from Taranto) | |||||
Trani | Salvatore Annacondia | turns pentiti 1997 | friend of Nitto | |||
underboss Nicola Regano | Santapaola | |||||
Taranto | Francesco Basile (Angelo’s brother?) | killed in 1988 | ||||
Taranto | Antonio Modeo, takes over after Basile killed | In 1989 has war with | ||||
killed by his half-brothers | half-brothers Gianfranco, | |||||
in Aug 1989 | Riccardo and Claudio | – they’re arrested in 1991 | ||||
(who are aided by Annacondia) | ||||||
ditto | Salvatore De Vitis, new boss | |||||
Taranto | D’Erche-Perelli clan | feud with below | ||||
Taranto | Cesario-Martinese- Cianciaruso- Boccuni cosca | feud with above | ||||
Taranto | Troisi clan | |||||
Francesco Troisi | arrested 1997 | |||||
Bari | Oronzo Romano | |||||
ROSA DEI VENTI | Bari | Giovanni De Tommasi, boss | killed Antonio Dodaro | |||
(formed in prison in ’90 | (allied with Strafile clan) | (see above) | ||||
Lecce), close alliance | Cosimo Cirfeta, members | turned pentiti 1993 | ||||
with Fidanzati family | Maurizio Cagnazzo, | |||||
from Sicily | Alessandro Macchia | |||||
Antonio Pulli | ||||||
has friendly relations | Claudio Conte | |||||
with SCU and Romano | ||||||
Taranto | Vincenzo Stranieri, member. | |||||
FAMIGLIA SALENTINA | Salvatore Rizzo | |||||
LIBERA | Aldo Montenegro | |||||
(founded in 1984) | Giuseppe Ingrosso | |||||
Pantaleo DeMatteis, Rizzo’s | ||||||
brother-in-law | ||||||
LA SOCIETA | Foggia | Roberto Sinesi, boss, 45 | arrested in 07 over a funerals racket | |||
Donato Delli Carri, nephew | Strisciouglio | |||||
Michele Mansueto,member | ||||||
Federico Trisciuoglio,ditto. | survived assassination | |||||
attempt in Sep 1999 | ||||||
Giosue Rizzi, underboss | ||||||
Giuseppe Iannelli,underboss | ||||||
Leonardo Piserchia | murdered Oct 1999 | |||||
CAPUTO-PIARULLI- | Cerignola (nr | Cosimo Cappellari, co-boss | ||||
FERRARO CLAN | Foggia) | Giuseppe Caputo, co-boss | ||||
Rosario Giordano,underling | ||||||
Trifone Cellamare (50) and son | 10bn lire of goods | |||||
Savino Cellamare (28) | confiscated in 1997 | |||||
ALFIERI-PRIMOSA CLAN | Foggia | Antonia Alfieri | at war with Francesco | |||
LiBergolis | ||||||
LiBergolis | Foggia | Francesco LiBergolis | at war with Alfieri- | |||
Primosa clan | ||||||
MANZARI CLAN | Bari (San Nicola) | Vito Manzari, 30, shot dead in 1991 | at war with Capriati | |||
Maurizio Manzari, 20, drug dealer, murdered ’92 | clan (also enemies of Montanis) | |||||
CAPRIATI CLAN | Bari (San Nicola) | Sabino Capriati, 47, tried for murder | at war with Manzaris | |||
sons Giuseppe Capriati | ||||||
Domenico Capriati | ||||||
and Filippo Capriati, 21 | ||||||
Antonio Capriati and | ||||||
Mario Capriati | ||||||
Massimiliano Ladisa (23) | ||||||
DIOMEDE CLAN | Bari (San Paolo) | Umberto Vitellaro, boss, who hides in Montenegro | at war with Montani clan | |||
Giovanni Vitellaro, 30, brother, arrested for murder in Feb 2000 | ||||||
Domenico Casadibari (23) murdered in 1992 by Montanis | ||||||
MONTANI CLAN | Bari (San Paolo) | ? | at with with Diomedes | |||
PARISI | Bari (Japiga) | Savino Parisi | arrested in Milan 1992 | |||
ANEMOLO CLAN | Bari | ? | ||||
STRISCIUGLIO CLAN | Bari (Carbonara) | Raffaele Tolonese, 48 (2007) | Foggia | at war with Sinesi | Sinesi | |
(arrested in 07 over funeral racket) | clan since 1998 but | |||||
were involved together | ||||||
in funeral racket | ||||||
LARASPATA CLAN | Bari (Borgo | Donato Laraspata | support Montani clan | |||
Antico) | Raffaele Laraspata | arrested in Naples 1997 | ||||
Tommaso Laraspata | ||||||
Saverio Finocchio, hitman | ||||||
Roberto Prudentino | ||||||
Francesco Prudentino, 52 | Cigarette trafficking | Arrested in Salonica, | ||||
(through Greece, | Greece in Dec 2000 | |||||
Bulgaria and | Held in Diavata jail | |||||
Montenegro), | until trial in Jan 2001 | |||||
Extortion | Wanted for extradition | |||||
in Italy | ||||||
Calabria (N’drangheta)
THE NDRANGHETA HAVE STRONG CONNECTIONS WITH CALABRIANS IN CANADA (eg COTRONI FAMILY) AND GERMANY | ||||
Clan | Top people | Base | Business | Events/Status |
Piromalli | Girolamo Piromalli | Gioia Tauro | Construction | Responsible for |
(acquitted of Getty kidnap) | (controls Tyrhennian coast) | Extortion | kidnapping Paul | |
died of natural causes 1979 | Getty in 1973 (got a | |||
$1.3m ransom) | ||||
2 | Giuseppe Piromalli, brother | |||
aka “Peppino”, 72, arrested ’93 | accused of 37 murders, NG 1998 | |||
Antonio Piromalli, son, (44), arrested in 1993 | ||||
Gioacchino Piromalli (49), son, arrested in 1993, acquitted 1998 | ||||
Antonino Zito (Giuseppe’s | ambushed and killed | |||
right hand man), arrested in | Antonio Macri and his | |||
May-99 | men in 1975, went to | |||
war with Macri’s | ||||
1 | Giuseppe Pesce, 68, | Rosarno | arms trafficking | right-hand man, |
(co-boss with Peppino) | arrested in 1991 | (weapons from Syria) | Vincenzo Commiso | |
Antonino Pesce, nephew | over arms trafficking charges | |||
Marcello Pesce | ditto | |||
Vincenzo La Malfa, | ditto | |||
Bruno and Salvatore Pisano | ditto | |||
Bruno Giuliano | ||||
Mammoliti | Vincenzo Mammoliti,NG of kidnap | heroin | supported Piromalli | |
Saverio Mammoliti,NG of kidnap | (killed Dom Barbaro) | during above war | ||
Francesco Mammoliti, nephew | arrested in 1999 | major drug dealer | ||
(allied with Violi brothers of Montreal) | Rocco Violi killed in 1980 | |||
capos Domenico Rugolo (31), | ||||
capo Rocco Talarita (54) | ||||
capo Vincenzo Giordano (35) | ||||
Antonino Mammoliti, pentiti | ||||
1 | Giuseppe Mammoliti | |||
(his son Rocco, 36, arrested in | ||||
Milan with large heroin stash) | ||||
(another son, Domenico, 34, | ||||
arrested in 1996) | ||||
Sebastiano Mammoliti | ||||
DeStefano | Giorgio DeStefano (shot dead in 1976) | drugs (has links | ditto | |
(most powerful | Paolo DeStefano (killed in 1985 see below) | with Colombia, | (have Commiso ally | |
and dangerous | (allies of Camorra boss | Venezuela, Spain, | Domenico Tripodi | |
clan in Italy) | Rafaele Cutolo) | Based in Reggio | France, Germany | killed in Poggioreale |
Giorgio DeStefano, nephew, | Belgium & Holland) | prison) | ||
became boss, arrested 1996 | ||||
was boss | Orazio De Stefano, 45, life | Arrested in Reggio di Calabria | ||
(been on run for 16 yrs) | in Feb 2004 | |||
he became boss after Paolo killed and Giorgio arrested | ||||
Giuseppe Morabito, 70 | Arrested in Santa Venere | |||
village in Feb 2004 | ||||
Rosmini | Natale Rosmini | head of the clan. | Based in Reggio | |
Antonio Rosmini, 38 (in 2004) | son of Natale. | Convicted in absentia of | Arrested in Dec 04 | |
killing two rivals in a bar. | after 10 yrs on the run | |||
Sentenced to life. | ||||
Tegano | Pasquale Tegano, 49 | Arrested in Aug 2004 after | Wanted for murder and | |
(allies of DeStefanos) | boss | being on the run since 1994 | organised crime | |
VENDETTA | Antonino Imerti, capo | (survived a car bomb planted by | allied to Condello | |
(Imerti) | (brother-in-law of Condellos) | his boss and hit back by | cosca | |
killing said boss, Paolo DeStefano) | ||||
Nov 1997 in Morocco, Roberto Canale (30), arrested for smuggling drugs for the Imerti | ||||
Antonino Imerti, life, 1998 | ||||
VENDETTA | Domenico Libri, underboss | arrested in Marseille in 1992 | ||
(Libri) | (his son, Pasquale Rocco, is | |||
killed in prison in 1988) | ||||
Antonino Libri, nephew, life (1998) | ||||
Domenico Libri, life, 1998 | ||||
Commisso | Vincenzo Commisso, survived | Ionian coast | heroin | slaughtered a family |
1975 ambush which killed his | Siderno | in Toronto in revenge | ||
boss, Antonio Macri | for the ambush | |||
(brother Vincenzo Macri) | ||||
Cosimo Commisso, 70, injured in ambush (Costa) 1990 | ||||
Remo Commisso | ||||
John Commisso | ||||
Costa | Luciano Costa | Siderno | kidnapping | In 1990 they began |
Giuliano Costa, killed in 1990 by Commissos (revenge) | to challenge the | |||
Pietro Costa, brother | Commissos | |||
Roberto Costa, brother | ||||
Giuseppe Costa, brother | ||||
Giovanni Costa, brother, killed in Toronto in 1991 by Commissos | ||||
Vincenzo Costa, brother, 43, killed in 1991 | ||||
Barbaro-Perre | Antonio Barbaro | Plati | kidnapping | invested money in |
Domenico Barbaro, killed by Saverio Mammoliti in 1978 | growing cannabis in | |||
Pasquale Perre, 25, killed in | Griffith, Australia | |||
shoot-out with cops in 1990 | (linked to Tizzoni family) | |||
Antonio Musitano, | ||||
Rocco Musitano, brothers | allied to Papalia and | |||
Francesco Barbaro, 65 | Trimboli | |||
Giuseppe Barbaro, 36 | ||||
Bruno Palmisano, arrested in 1999 | ||||
Sergi | Saverio Sergi | kidnapping | ||
Francesco Sergi, brother | ||||
Saverio Morabito | drugs | |||
Girolamo Sergi, 61, shot dead in 1992 | ||||
Papalia | Rocco Papalia | Plati | kidnapping | allied to Trimboli and |
Domenico Papalia | Barbaro | |||
Antonio Papalia, 38 | ||||
Trimboli | Francesco Trimboli, arrested | Plati | allied to Papalia | |
in Milan in 1993 | and Barbaro | |||
Labate | Boss Pietro Labate, Life, 1997 | rule north of Reggio Calabria | meat trade, | |
Vincenzo Laurendi, Life, 1997 | extortion, drugs & | |||
Orazio Assumma, Life, 1997 | arms trafficking | |||
Domenico Foti, Life, 1997 | ||||
Paolo Labate, acquitted 1997 | (500 murders) | |||
Pasquale Laurendi, NG, 1997. | ||||
Serraino | Paolo Serraino, 50 | Reggio Calabria | ||
Domenico Serraino, 47,brother | arrested in 1992 | |||
Demetrio Serraino, 48, killed in | ||||
barbershop in 1988 | ||||
Luigi Serraino, killed by Libri’s | ||||
men (DeStefano) in 1989 | ||||
Natale Rosmini, 32, suspected | hitman working for Paolo | |||
of 7 murders, arrested in | Serraino (killed politician | |||
France in Dec 1997 | Lodovico Ligato) | |||
Parrello | Gaetano Parrello killed in 1987 | Palmi | 35 men arrested ’91 | |
by Piccolo cosca (Francesco | ||||
Piccolo jailed for 29 years) | ||||
Candeloro Parrello, 40, was | arms and drugs | |||
arrested in his luxury Rome | trafficking | |||
flat in June 1996. He had | ||||
undergone plastic surgery and | ||||
had a false passport | ||||
Piccolo | Francesco Piccolo (killed | Palmi | ||
Gaetano Parrello) jailed for 29 years | ||||
Condello | Domenico Condello, life (1990) | Palmi | allies of Imerti | |
Pasquale Condello, life (1990) | both freed on appeal in 1992 | (De Stefano cosca) | ||
but Pasquale is finally given life in 1998 | ||||
Gallico | Domenico Gallico | Palmi | ||
Pietro Managro | ||||
Gentile | Tommaso Gentile | Amantea (port) | drug trafficking, extortion | 39 people arrested |
and electoral fraud | in Dec 07 | |||
Salvatore Muto | ||||
Franco | Reggio Calabria | |||
Zito- Bertuca | Reggio Calabria | |||
Lo Giudice- | Cosimo Moschera, 35, | Reggio Calabria | ||
Calabro-Villani | arrested in 1991 | |||
Neri- Quatrone | Reggio Calabria | |||
Iamonte | Natale Iamonte, murdered in | |||
1995 | ||||
Paviglianiti-Pangallo- | Antonio Pangallo, 33 | Cosenza | Pangallo was captured | |
Maesano-Favasulli | boss | Occaforte Rodhudi and Melito | in Spain in Mar 2004 | |
Strangio-Nirta | Giovanni Nirta | San Luca | Feud with Pelle-Romeo | |
(his wife Maria Strangio, 33, | clan began in 1991 when | |||
was killed on Xmas Day 06, | someone threw an egg at | |||
which broke a truce which had | a carnival. It spiralled out | |||
lasted since 2000). | of control and dozens have | |||
been killed. | ||||
In 2007 five men were killed | ||||
Pelle-Romeo | Antonio Pelle aka “La Mamma” | San Luca | in Duisburg, Germany in | |
captured in a bunker 2011 | (they have also lived in | the latest tit for tat | ||
Duisburg since 80s) | (one of the victims was | |||
Marco Marmo (one of the | Sebastiano Strangio but he | |||
Duisburg victims) was believed to | was from Pelle-Romeo clan) | |||
have killed Maria Strangio | Killers were Strangio-Nirta | |||
Pesce | Cicco Pesce, boss, 30 | Rosarno (near Gioia Tauro) | Drug smuggling and | |
(captured in 2011 hiding in | extortion (pizzo) | |||
a bunker) | ||||
Ernesto Fazzalari – who was 50 in 2019 – was arrested in 2016 after 20 years on the run. He was the joint head of the Zagari-Fazzalari gang, along with Carmelo Zagari. The clan controls Taurianova. From 1989-1991 the clan was involved in a bloody feud with the rival Asciutto-Neri-Grimaldi gang, which led to multiple deaths. In 1999, Fazzalari was put on trial in absentia and received a life sentence for his role in the Taurianova feud. |
Naples (Camorra)
NCO Nuova | Raffaele Cutolo | Ottaviano suburb | cocaine smuggling | In 1976 Cutolo has his | arrested in 1982 |
(Nuova Camorra | (freed from prison in | friend Mico Tripodi killed | but continued to | ||
Organisazione) | 1974, founded NCO | to please the Calabrian | run his empire | ||
Nuova) | DeStefano cosca | from Poggioreale | |||
Its sudden rise to | Ordered Giuseppe Salvia | prison in Naples | |||
power ended in the | Immacolata Iacone, 23 | deputy director of | Later transferred | ||
mid 1980s when | wife (married 1984) | Poggioreale to be | to island prison | ||
Nuova Famiglia | (her father Salvatore | killed in 1981 after he | of Asinara | ||
ganged up to | murdered in 1988) | discovers Cutolo’s mole | where he is serving life sentence | ||
curtail it. | in Ministry of Interior affairs | ||||
Roberto Cutolo, son, 28 | shot dead in 1990 | ||||
Has lost its power | Luigi Cutolo, nephew | ||||
Rosetta Cutolo, sister | her lover, Giuseppe | on the run for | |||
aka “Ice Eyes” | Romano, killed on | 13 years until | |||
her brother’s orders | arrest in 1993. | ||||
Carolina Cutolo, niece | in 1981 | Jailed for 10 yrs | |||
(her husband Davide Sorrentino shot dead in 1991) | but due out in 99 | ||||
capo, Sergio Marinelli | arrested in 1993 | ||||
capo, Simmaco Zarrillo | shot dead by police in 1992 (Antonio Letizia survives) | ||||
capo, Domenico Morelli | escaped from prison in 1993 | ||||
lawyer, Enrico Madonna | shot dead in 1993 | ||||
d’Alessandro | capo Michele d’Alessandro | ||||
Sabatino Saviano | |||||
Francesco Pirone | |||||
Giovanni Malandrino | |||||
Salvatore & Sabatino Pavone | |||||
Salvatore Varriale, | |||||
Michele Nappo | |||||
Salvatore Puca, under- | jailed for 11 yrs | ||||
boss | in 1985 | ||||
Mario Ferraro | |||||
Marco Medda, capo | drug dealing | killed man in jail 1982 | lives in Bologna | ||
Pasquale D’Amico, ditto | turns pentiti | ditto | |||
La Nuova Famiglia | Michele Zaza | Santa Lucia | heroin (Spain, France and central Italy) | dies in jail, 1994 | |
(formed in 1981) | (later Marseille) | casinos (in France, | |||
Salvatore Zaza, brother | Caribbean, USA, | survived an attack in | |||
Maria Zaza, sister | South Africa) – used | 1983 | |||
to launder money | |||||
kidnappings | |||||
(six of his top men arrested in 1991) | |||||
Nunzio and Vincenzo | Portugal | distributing cocaine | invest it in restaurants | ||
DeFalco | for Zaza | in Granada, Spain | |||
Francesco Toscanino | Brazil | buying coke from | |||
Colombians for Camorra | |||||
Bardellino | Antonio Bardellino | Giugliano | arrested in Spain in | ||
(Iovine-Schiavone) | 1984. Escapes from jail | ||||
Vanishes in 1989 after | |||||
a meeting with Iovine in Brazil | |||||
(capo) Mario Iovine, 51 | Giugliano | Takes over after this | Murdered in Portugal | ||
became boss | incident. | in 1991 | |||
son, Italo Iovine | |||||
nephew,Vitantonio Iovine | Arrested in 1992 | ||||
Francesco Schiavone | Giugliano | becomes joint boss | arrested in 1993 | ||
Alfonso Schiavone | with Iovine | arrested in 1993 | |||
Pasquale Morrone (40), | arrested in 1992 for murder | ||||
Andrea Conte (29), | ditto | ||||
Michelangelo Di Maio, | ditto | ||||
Alessandro Gravante (42) | ditto | ||||
Castrese Papa (48) | ditto | ||||
Giuliano | Luigi Giuliano | Forcella | arrested in 1982 | allied through | |
ditto | marriage to | ||||
Salvatore Giuliano,brother | arrested in 1992 | Mazzarella | |||
Arrested again in Mar 04 | |||||
after surviving an assassination | |||||
attempt which killed a | |||||
14-year-old girl | |||||
Giuseppe Giuliano | shot dead in 1998 by | ||||
Nunzio Spina | |||||
Erminia Giuliano, sister | became leader after | ||||
brothers arrested. | |||||
Detained in 2001 but told police to wait | |||||
until her beautician arrived. | |||||
Raffaele Prestieri | shot dead in 1992 by assassin | ||||
Rosario Prestieri | shot dead in 1992 by assassin | ||||
Anna DeRosa, 55 | Forcella | drugs | |||
Alfieri | Carmine Alfieri | Nola | (became a pentito | Ordered murder of | arrested in 1992 |
Boss of LNF (head of commission) | in 1993) | Cutolo’s “cashier” | nr Naples after | ||
Alfonso Rosanova in | 10 yrs on the run | ||||
Raffaele Tufano, hitman | hospital in 1982 | Jailed for 14 yrs | |||
in Sep 98 for | |||||
Angelo Visciano, 44 | also arrested with Alfieri in 1992 | murder of | |||
Councillor Nappi | |||||
Fiore D’Avino (37), capo | arrested in 1993 | ||||
Luigi D’Avino, 34, capo | ditto | ||||
Marzio Sepe, succeeded Alfieri as boss of LNF after his arrest and conversion | Arrested in 1996 | ||||
Galasso | Pasquale Galasso, | Poggimarino | arrested in 1994 after being grassed up | ||
underboss | by Alfieri | ||||
Giuseppe Oliviero, under | Salerno | SHOT DEAD IN 1990 | |||
boss, 44 | |||||
Alfredo Galasso, boss | |||||
Moccia clan | Angelo Moccia | Afragola | used to be allies of Raffaele Cutolo but | ||
boss | switched sides in 1980s and joined | ||||
LNF | |||||
Anna Mazza (his mother) | ditto | ||||
Contini | Eduardo Contini | laundered money by | ongoing feud with | ||
being pizzerias etc | Mazzarella clan | ||||
Ricardo Perucci, | in Eastern Europe | ||||
right hand man | |||||
Licciardi | Gennaro Licciardi | (allied with | Killed in prison | ||
Tolomelli-Vastarella) | in 1993 | ||||
Pietro Licciardi, brother | |||||
Vincenzo Licciardi, brother | |||||
Maria Licciardi | Naples | Prostitution | Arrested in 2001 | ||
sister of Gennaro | Drugs | and head of Secondigliano Alliance | |||
http://gangstersinc.tripod.com/MariaLicciardi.html | Organised a meeting between the clans and agreed peace deal | ||||
(born March 1951) | She got her clan involved in prostitution (buying girls from Albanian mafia) | ||||
(married Antonio Teghemie, a Camorrista) | Went to war with Lo Russo clan over a batch of heroin | ||||
known as “La Piccolina” | Bombed the office of prosecutor Luigi Bobbio in 2001 | ||||
Arrested in 2001 | |||||
Secondiglione Alliance | |||||
Ciccio Mallardo, 49 | arrested Apr 2000 | ||||
Patrizio Bosti | ditto | ||||
Feliciano Mallardo | ditto | ||||
Malventi | Ciro Mariano | Spagnoli | |||
Marco Mariano, brother | |||||
capo, Salvatore Cardillo | assert their independence in 1991 | ||||
capo, Antonio Ranieri | after ordering shooting of Ciro’s trustee Vincenzo Romano | ||||
Tommaso Esposito, | |||||
Salvatore Cirelli, | |||||
Salvo Terracciano. | |||||
Pasquale Fraiese, loyal to Mariano | |||||
Giuseppe Amendola, hitman | arrested in Rome in 1991 | ||||
Umberto Bernasconi,hitman | |||||
Rosario Ugon, hitman | |||||
DeBiase | Luigi DeBiase | ||||
Ciro DeBiase | |||||
Donato Prisco, 40 | supermarket chain | ||||
Sabato Grassi and his | stolen art | arrested in 1991 in | |||
three sons | possession of | ||||
#80m of stolen art | |||||
Nuvoletta | Gaetano Nuvoletta, 53 | Marano | cigarette smuggling | arrested in 1986 | |
head of a clan | |||||
Lorenzo Nuvoletta, 59 in | arrested in 1990 | ||||
1990 | |||||
capo, Domenico Ferrara | |||||
(switched from Bardellino in 1989) | |||||
Angelo Nuvoletta | both | jailed for life in | |||
1997 for murder | |||||
Gionta | Valentino Gionta | both | of journalist | ||
Giancarlo Siani | |||||
Giuseppe Polverino, | arrested in 1993 | ||||
right hand man | |||||
Luigi Baccante, under- | jailed for life 97 | ||||
boss | |||||
Ciro Cappuccio, under- | ditto | ||||
boss | |||||
Fernando Cataldo | ditto | ||||
underboss | |||||
Armando Del Core | ditto | ||||
underboss | |||||
Gabriele Donnarumma | jailed for 28 yrs | ||||
in 1997 | |||||
Quaquarone | feud broke out in | ||||
1996 | |||||
Mazzacane | ditto | ||||
Mazzarella | Vincenzo Mazzarella | Sanita | feud broke out in | ||
(shot o/s Poggioreale | 1998 | ||||
prison in Feb 1998) | |||||
(allied to Zaza) | |||||
Ciro Mazzarella | arrested in 1993 | ||||
(nephew of Michele Zaza) | |||||
Michele Mazzarella, 16 | marries Marianna Giuliano in 1996 thus cementing an alliance with Giuliano cosca | ||||
Francesco Mazzarella, 74, murdered by Contini clan as he leaves a Naples prison (1998) | |||||
Lago | Costantino Gargiulo | ||||
Cuccaro | ongoing feud | ||||
Formicole | ditto | ||||
Graziano | Alba Graziano, 41 | twin towns of | extortion and | Involved in a row with | In jail pending |
widow of murdered boss | Lauro and | corrupt building | Clarissa Cava, 16, of | trial | |
Eugenio (died 1991) | Quindici, 30 miles | contracts | rival Cava family in Feb 02 | ||
from Naples | (ran the towns for | Clarissa and her two aunts | |||
(Villa Altachiara, | years until 1972 when | were shot dead same day | |||
worth 5m euros) | Cavas challenged | in a shoot-out | |||
and killed Fiore Graziano) | |||||
Chiara Graziano, 20 | ditto | in jail in Messina | |||
her niece (married,baby) | pending trial | ||||
Stefania Graziano, 19 | ditto | in jail in Rome | |||
law student | pending trial | ||||
Diana Graziano, | ditto | in hiding | |||
youngest daughter | |||||
Antonio Graziano | ditto | ditto | Pleaded G to the | Awaiting trial | |
murders | |||||
Cava | Biagio Cava | ditto | ditto | Clarissa Cava, 16, and | released from |
boss, patriarch | two of her aunts shot | jail in Sep 02 | |||
dead after row with | and plotting his | ||||
Alba Graziano | revenge | ||||
Clarissa Cava, 16 | Murdered in Feb 02 | ||||
(daughter) | in a shoot-out/ambush | ||||
Felicia Cava | Paralysed in the | ||||
another daughter | same attack | ||||
Ammaturo, | |||||
Misso-Pirozzi | Giuseppe Misso | In 1992 his wife, | |||
Assunta Sarno, and | |||||
capo, Giulio Pirozzi | underboss Alfonso | ||||
(injured in 1992 attack) | Galeota killed by the | ||||
Tolomelli cosca | |||||
Mario Savese (wounded in 1998 car bomb attack by Tolomelli) | |||||
Tolomelli-Vastarella | Raffaele Tolomelli | Sanita | wounded in 1992 by | (allied with | |
Misso-Pirozzi attack | Licciardi) | ||||
Ciro Tolomelli, imprisoned in France | |||||
Luigi Vastarella | |||||
Nuzzo- Fabbrocino | ? Fabbrocino | Torre del Greco | drugs | set up drug route from | |
Peru to Italy | |||||
Ruocco | Mugnano | ||||
Di Lauro | Cosimo Di Lauro | Secondigliano/ | drugs/extortion | a major war broke out | |
Scampia | in Nov 2004 when a | ||||
group of “secessionists” | |||||
(known as the Spaniards) | |||||
split away | |||||
Salvatore Vitagliano | the group’s “cashiers” | Arrested in Nov 04 | |||
Paolo Vitagliano | ditto | ditto | |||
Vincenzo DiLauro | his girlfriend, Gelsomina | ||||
Verde, 22, was killed | |||||
and put in a burning car | |||||
during Camorra war in Nov 04 | |||||
The Spaniards | Raffaele Amato (51 in 2018) | Secondigliano | drugs | split away from | |
The Secessionists of Secondigliano aka the Amato-Pagano clan
A Camorra clan from Secondigliano district, headed by Raffaele Amato and Cesare Pagano. They are known as the Spagnoli (Spaniards) because they are constantly smuggling cocaine via Galicia in Spain. In 2018 during the trial of Rob Dawes (from Nottingham’s Dawes Cartle) they were said to be working with him on cocaine importation. |
Cesare Pagano (49 in 2018) | (and Spain) | DiLauros in 2004 | ||
Pincirillo | Gennaro Panzuto, 32 | Naples | extortion, drugs and | arrested in Preston, UK | |
gun trafficking | in May 07 and set to | ||||
be extradited to Italy | |||||
Misso | ? | Naples | ditto | involved in feud with | |
Pincirillo clan in 06 | |||||
Casalesi | Antonio Iovine | Naples | construction | on the run since 96 | |
(low profile) | (wanted for murdeR) | ||||
Giuseppe Iovine, | ditto | ditto | fired from Naples | ||
his brother | (San Cipriano | traffic police in 95 but | |||
d’Aversa) | still very cosy with them | ||||
and in 07 was exposed | |||||
as running operations | |||||
out of a police station | |||||
in San Cipriano d’Aversa | |||||
Domenico Bidognetti | ditto | ditto | turned pentiti. | ||
His father Umberto was | |||||
killed in May 08 | |||||
Sicily (La Cosa Nostra)
BOTH LCN AND STIDDA GROUPS HAVE BRANCHES (COSCA) IN BELGIUM, GERMANY, CANADA and ENGLAND | ||||||
THEY ARE ALSO BECOMING INVOLVED IN THE BALKANS (TRAFFICKING HUMANS, DRUGS AND CIGARETTES) | ||||||
Name of Gang | Top People | Base | Business | Status/Events | Enemies | Experts |
Corleonesi | Bernardo Provenzano, 63 | Palermo/Corleone | Drugs, Extortion, | on the run for 42 years | Sergio Lari, deputy chief prosecutor, Palermo | |
Binnu u Tratturi’ (Bernie The Tractor) | contract skimming | (now capo di tutti capi) | ||||
(honorary president of La Cosa Nostra) | Given life sentence in absentia 1991 | |||||
Captured in Corleone | ||||||
on 11 April 2006 (day | ||||||
after Berlusconi lost | ||||||
Italian election) | ||||||
Antonino Rotolo, 60 (in 06) | Pagliarelli, nr | ditto | Tried to take over | Lo Piccolo | ||
from Corleone | Palermo | after Provenzano’s arrest | ||||
but captured by police | ||||||
in June 2006 (Operation Gotha) | ||||||
Francesco Bonura, 64 | ditto | ditto | close friend of Rotolo | |||
builder | also arrested in Op Gotha | |||||
Antonino Cina, 61, doctor | ditto | ditto | ditto | |||
Mariano Troia, Binnu’s right | ||||||
hand man | ||||||
Antonino Giuffre | ditto | ditto | Captured in 2002 and | |||
(Provenzano’s right hand man) | turned pentiti. Gave | |||||
evidence in Marcello | ||||||
Dell ‘Utri trial | ||||||
Salvatore Lo Piccolo | Palermo | ditto | One of the new bosses | Alfredo Morvillo, anti-mafia prosecutor | ||
65 (in 2007) | (Resuttana district) | (said Giuffre in 2003) | ||||
Likely to become boss now Provenzano is in jail | On the run since 1980 | |||||
“The White Fox” | Captured Nov 07 | |||||
(his son, Sandro, 30, is an underboss) | ||||||
Matteo Messina Denaro | Trapani | ditto | One of the new bosses | |||
(born April 1962) | (said Giuffre in 2003) | |||||
Committed first murder at 18. | Said to be a rising star | |||||
Has reputedly killed 50 people | In hiding since 1993 | |||||
Known as “the playboy boss” | Wants to replace Provenzano | |||||
May challenge Lo Piccolo | Friendly with Senator Antonio D’Ali (Forza Italia MP for Trapani) | |||||
Salvatore Rinella, 49 (in 2003) | ditto | ditto | Arrested in Mar 2003 | |||
(Giuffre’s right hand man) | after tip off by Giuffre. | |||||
(Has already been | ||||||
convicted in absentia | ||||||
of murder in 1979) | ||||||
Toto Riina | Drugs, Extortion, | Arrested in 1993 and | ||||
(previous leader) | Contract skimming | jailed.(Given life in absentia in 1991) | ||||
Leoluca Bagarella, Riina’s | ditto | ditto | Arrested in 1995 and | |||
brother-in-law | jailed | |||||
Vito Vitale, Riina’s protégé | ditto | ditto | Arrested in April 1998 | |||
(his son, Vito Jr, 15, in 1998) | ||||||
Bernardo Brusca, 36 | ditto | ditto | Arrested in Agrigento | |||
Given life in absentia in 1991 | ||||||
(the Bruscas are said | ||||||
to have personally | ||||||
triggered bomb which | ||||||
called Giovanni Falcone) | ||||||
He also strangled | ||||||
Giuseppe Di Matteo,11, in 1996 | ||||||
after his father testified | ||||||
against the mob | ||||||
(boy was dissolved in acid) | ||||||
He turned pentiti in 2000 | ||||||
Vincenzo Brusca, his brother | ditto | ditto | ditto (but got 30 yrs) | |||
but in 2003 he turned | ||||||
pentiti in exchange | ||||||
for more lenient sentence | ||||||
(a decision which was | ||||||
greeted with outrage) | ||||||
Giovanni Bonomo, 68 (in 2003) | ditto | money laundering | Extradited from | (On the run between | ||
in southern Africa | Senegal in Nov 03 | 1996 and 2003) | ||||
Vito Palazzolo | ditto | money laundering | STILL ON THE RUN | |||
in South Africa | (in South Africa) | |||||
Michele Greco | given life in 1991 | |||||
Giuseppe Calo | given life in 1991 | |||||
Gaetano Fidanzati | (came up with idea of exchanging | |||||
(sons Guglielmo & Giuseppe) | Mafia heroin for Colombian cocaine) | |||||
Giuseppe Madonia | ||||||
Marcello Fava, 34, underboss | head of Porta Nuova clan, protégé of Vitale | Arrested March 1998 | ||||
Pietro ‘Signurinu’ Aglieri | Santa Maria | Member of Mafia’s | Jailed | |||
(studied Greek, Latin and | di Gesu | Provincial Commission | for life | |||
philosophy before joining) | (south Palermo) | for Palermo | Dec-98 | |||
(grandson of Vincenzo) | Arrested Dec 1998 | |||||
Gaetano Badalamenti | ? | Jailed for 45 years in | ||||
1987 after ‘Pizza | ||||||
Connection’ trial | ||||||
Santapaola clan | Nitto Santapaola | Catania | has 50 ‘made’ men | Jailed for life in Jul 98 | ||
aka The Werewolf | but allegedly runs things from jail | |||||
suffers from lycanthropy | ||||||
Vincenzo Santapaola | ditto | Acquitted in Jul 98 | ||||
Nitto’s son, 38 (in 07) | Captured in Dec 07 | |||||
Francesco Santapaola | ditto | ditto | ||||
brother | ||||||
Angelo and Carmelo | ditto | Jailed in 1998 | ||||
Guidotto, brothers | ||||||
Giuseppe Pulvirenti, ally of | has a 300-strong | |||||
Santapaola | gang | |||||
Antonino Faro | ditto | in jail | killed and eat Francis Turello in jail in 1980s | |||
“cursoti” | non-Cosa Nostra | Catania | 20 gangs | Cosa | ||
Nostra | ||||||
Scalisi family | Concetta Scalisi, 45 | Adrano, Paterno | Drugs, Extortion & | her father Antonino | ||
sub-boss to Santapaola | & Biancavilla | Loansharking | died in 1982 | |||
(nr Catania) | she herself was | |||||
arrested in April 1999 | ||||||
Messina family | Maria Filippa Messina, 26 | Catania | Her husband Antonio | |||
was jailed for 21 years | ||||||
in 1993 | ||||||
She is now in jail | ||||||
Jessica Scott, 29, | Her husband, | |||||
Massimiliano Vinciguerra | ||||||
was killed | ||||||
She was arrested in | ||||||
Jun-98 | ||||||
Santo Mazzei, friend of | Catania | |||||
Vito Vitale | ||||||
Laudani family | ? | Catania | ||||
Diego Santino Burzetta | Trapani/Marsala | |||||
Messina | Gaetano Costa | ruled S. Messina | at war with Rizzo | |||
(see below) | ||||||
Costa’s underboss>> | Mario Marchese, joint boss | Messina | controls N. Messina | jailed for life. Apr 1998 | ||
Costa’s underboss>> | Luigi Galli, ditto | ditto | controls N. Messina | jailed for life. Apr 1998 | ||
Giovanni Cutugno | ditto | jailed for life. Apr 1998 | ||||
Carmelo Mauro | ditto | jailed for life. Apr 1998 | ||||
Domenico Papale | ditto | jailed for life. Apr 1998 | ||||
Giorgio Mancuso | ditto | jailed for 30 yrs. Apr98 | ||||
Iano Ferrara | ditto | jailed for 30 yrs. Apr98 | ||||
(pro-Corleonesi) | Luigi Sparacio (see below) | ditto | controlled C Messina | jailed for 30 yrs. Apr98 | ||
In feb 1994 the Corleonesi supporter Luigi Sparacio from Messina became a pentito and told that | ||||||
judge Antonio La Torre had freed the mafioso Giovanni Leo a nephew of the killed boss Giuseppe Leo. | ||||||
25 Feb 1997 Fabio Magliacane was killed and 12 june police arrest for this murder the pentito Santi Timpani, | ||||||
brother-in-law of Luigi Sparacio | ||||||
Sarino Lettrio Rizzo | controls S. Messina | at war with Costa | ||||
Sebastiano Ferrara, right hand | ||||||
Galati-Giordano | Bruno, Luigi, Calogero and | town of Barcellona, Messina province | at war with | |||
clan | Sebastiano Galati Giordano | Bontempo Scavo | ||||
Orlando Galati Giordano became a pentito in 1997 | ||||||
Daniele Galati Giordano (25) and his wife Adriana Sanfilippo (35) were arrested for cokesmuggling in 1997. | ||||||
Bontempo Scavo | Cesare, Antonino, Sebastiano and Mario Bontempo Scavo | |||||
clan | ||||||
Nardo’s gang | Sebastiano Nardo | Syracuse | jailed for life. Jul 98 | |||
5 October 1991 Sebastiano Nardo had the boss Totuccio Schiavone (37) who had housearrest disappear | ||||||
Siracusa for ever. 28 June 1992 in Siracusa the boss Agostino Urso was shot to death at the orders of | ||||||
Nardo. 22 August 1992 Sebastiano Nardo (44) was arrested near Siracusa, he was supported by | ||||||
Santapaola the boss of Catania. 8 December 1992 Antonio Tarascio (24) from Siracusa was arrested in | ||||||
Palermo. 20 Januari 1993 in Siracusa there are 15 arrestwarrants against Salvatore Sesta (26), Filippo | ||||||
Sesta, Nicolo Fiasche and Antonino Triglia. 10 Februari 3 man of the Urso-Bottaro cosca get arrested | ||||||
they are the brothers Roberto and Alessandro Garofalo and Michele Midolo (32). 7 July 1996 in Rome | ||||||
Benedetto Spataro (48) was arrested, he is a member of Salvatore Priviterra’s cosca from Siracusa. 13 | ||||||
August 1997 in Siracusa the entrepeneur Rosario Basile (41) was shot to death. In april 1998 in | ||||||
Siracusa the dutchmen from the town utrecht Sebastiaan B, Marcel K and Gert H got shortly arrested | ||||||
for the kidnapping of Anne Marie Lievens (38), her friend Pepe Hofman (22) and her small kids. She | ||||||
had divorced in december 1997 businessman and millionair Hans Daniel Melchers. They had mostly | ||||||
stayed around catania. | ||||||
Carbonaro- | Bruno and Claudio Carbonaro | carried out massacre in 1990 | enemies of | |||
Dominante gang | Giancarlo sebastiano Amodei arrested in Milan in 1997 | Russo family | ||||
(Stidda) | Carmelo Dominante | Ragusa/Gela | ||||
Russo family | Salvatore Russo (32) arrested in 1991 along with | enemies of | ||||
(Stidda) | brothers Gianluca (20) and Francesco Nigito (26) | Carbonaro-Dominante | ||||
wiped out the | In Dortmund police pick up Salvatore’s brother Rosario Russo (34 | at war since 1990 | ||||
Spatola-Arcerito clan | Still at large are the third brother Vincenzo Russo (33), | |||||
& inherited drug routes | ||||||
Trubia brothers | Pietro Trubia | Gela | at war with | |||
(his brother Emanuele, 29, killed in Jul 1999) | Emmanuello | |||||
(another brother Aurelio also killed) | ||||||
Emmanuello | Daniele Emmanuello, 43 | Gela | shot dead while | at war with Trubios | ||
godfather | evading capture in | |||||
Dec-07 | ||||||
Davide Emmanuello | Gela | ditto | ||||
Ianni-Cavallo clan | (Gaetano Ianni, 44, and his | Gela | ||||
son Marco become pentiti in 1993 because they are losing a war. | ||||||
Aurelio Cavallo, imprisoned | ||||||
Concetta Fausciana is his wife) | ||||||
now led by Salvatore Lauretta and Orazio Coccomini | ||||||
La Stidda | Giuseppe di Cristina | southern Sicily | new gang not-aligned | murdered by the | La Cosa Nostra | |
(Sicilian for Star) | (Agrigento, Gela, | to La Cosa Nostra | Corleonesi. 1978 | |||
star tattoos | (La Stidda is not as well | Caltanisetta) | ||||
members are known | organised or as deep rooted | |||||
as stiddari | but is more violent) | colony in | ||||
started off as biker/ | Mannheim, Germany | |||||
youth gangs but | ||||||
were joined by | Giuseppe Messina (43) gets arrested for drugdealing in Mazzarino, nr Caltanissetta. | |||||
disaffected mafiosi | ||||||
who disliked Riina | Salvatore Casano | Gela Stidda | ||||
Paolo DiGiacomo | ditto | |||||
Orazio Paolello | arrested in 1993 and accused of multiple murders | |||||
Carlo Zicchitella | Marsala | |||||
Alfredo Sole (Racalmunto) Giovanni Avarello (Canicatti) Salvatore Riggio (Riesi) Empedocle Giuseppe (Porte) | ||||||
Gaetano Puzzanghero (Palma di Montichiaro) and Giuseppe Benvenuto Croce | ||||||
Caruana-Cuntrera | Paolo Caruana | village of Siculiana | Extradited to Italy | Now in Pianosa (island) | ||
(also operated in | in Sicily | in Oct 1992 from | prison in Italy | |||
Venezuela, Aruba, | Gaspare Caruana | (later moved to | Venezuela | ditto | ||
USA, Mexico, | Venezuela) | ditto | ||||
Switzerland, Spain, | ||||||
Germany, Thailand, | Francesco Di Carlo | London | Said by Tommaso | But he denies it (says | Currently a pentiti giving evidence | |
India) | aka Frankie The Strangler | Buscetta to have | job was subcontracted | against MP Marcello Dell ‘Utri | ||
killed Roberto Calvi | to the Camorra) | alleging mafia association and | ||||
money laundering (re Fininvest) | ||||||
Alfonso Caruana | Woodbridge, | Jailed for 18 years | He also faces | |||
Ontario | in 2000 for trying to | extradition to Italy | ||||
PROJECT OMERTA was | (near Toronto) | smuggle Colombian | where he faces 22 yrs | |||
the name of the operation | cocaine into Canada | for mob association and | ||||
which caught this lot | drug trafficking | |||||
Gerlando Caruana | ditto | Jailed for 20 yrs in | Has previous | |||
2000 for same | conviction for | |||||
offence | drug trafficking | |||||
Giuseppe Caruana, | ditto | Jailed for 4 yrs for | ||||
Gerlando’s son | money laundering | |||||
in 2000 | ||||||
Pasquale Caruana | ditto | Jailed for 10 yrs in | ||||
2000 for conspiracy | ||||||
and trafficking | ||||||
Oreste Pagano | ditto | Turned supergrass | Extradited to Italy, | |||
(pentito) in 1999 | where he has begun | |||||
giving evidence | ||||||
Giuseppe Cuntrera | Hiding out in Aruba | |||||
‘Ndrangheta (Calabria):
THE NDRANGHETA HAVE STRONG CONNECTIONS WITH CALABRIANS IN CANADA (eg COTRONI FAMILY) AND GERMANY | ||||
Clan | Top people | Base | Business | Events/Status |
Piromalli | Girolamo Piromalli | Gioia Tauro | Construction | Responsible for |
(acquitted of Getty kidnap) | (controls Tyrhennian coast) | Extortion | kidnapping Paul | |
died of natural causes 1979 | Getty in 1973 (got a | |||
$1.3m ransom) | ||||
2 | Giuseppe Piromalli, brother | |||
aka “Peppino”, 72, arrested ’93 | accused of 37 murders, NG 1998 | |||
Antonio Piromalli, son, (44), arrested in 1993 | ||||
Gioacchino Piromalli (49), son, arrested in 1993, acquitted 1998 | ||||
Antonino Zito (Giuseppe’s | ambushed and killed | |||
right hand man), arrested in | Antonio Macri and his | |||
May-99 | men in 1975, went to | |||
war with Macri’s | ||||
1 | Giuseppe Pesce, 68, | Rosarno | arms trafficking | right-hand man, |
(co-boss with Peppino) | arrested in 1991 | (weapons from Syria) | Vincenzo Commiso | |
Antonino Pesce, nephew | over arms trafficking charges | |||
Marcello Pesce | ditto | |||
Vincenzo La Malfa, | ditto | |||
Bruno and Salvatore Pisano | ditto | |||
Bruno Giuliano | ||||
Mammoliti | Vincenzo Mammoliti,NG of kidnap | heroin | supported Piromalli | |
Saverio Mammoliti,NG of kidnap | (killed Dom Barbaro) | during above war | ||
Francesco Mammoliti, nephew | arrested in 1999 | major drug dealer | ||
(allied with Violi brothers of Montreal) | Rocco Violi killed in 1980 | |||
capos Domenico Rugolo (31), | ||||
capo Rocco Talarita (54) | ||||
capo Vincenzo Giordano (35) | ||||
Antonino Mammoliti, pentiti | ||||
1 | Giuseppe Mammoliti | |||
(his son Rocco, 36, arrested in | ||||
Milan with large heroin stash) | ||||
(another son, Domenico, 34, | ||||
arrested in 1996) | ||||
Sebastiano Mammoliti | ||||
DeStefano | Giorgio DeStefano (shot dead in 1976) | drugs (has links | ditto | |
(most powerful | Paolo DeStefano (killed in 1985 see below) | with Colombia, | (have Commiso ally | |
and dangerous | (allies of Camorra boss | Venezuela, Spain, | Domenico Tripodi | |
clan in Italy) | Rafaele Cutolo) | Based in Reggio | France, Germany | killed in Poggioreale |
Giorgio DeStefano, nephew, | Belgium & Holland) | prison) | ||
became boss, arrested 1996 | ||||
was boss | Orazio De Stefano, 45, life | Arrested in Reggio di Calabria | ||
(been on run for 16 yrs) | in Feb 2004 | |||
he became boss after Paolo killed and Giorgio arrested | ||||
Giuseppe Morabito, 70 | Arrested in Santa Venere | |||
village in Feb 2004 | ||||
Rosmini | Natale Rosmini | head of the clan. | Based in Reggio | |
Antonio Rosmini, 38 (in 2004) | son of Natale. | Convicted in absentia of | Arrested in Dec 04 | |
killing two rivals in a bar. | after 10 yrs on the run | |||
Sentenced to life. | ||||
Tegano | Pasquale Tegano, 49 | Arrested in Aug 2004 after | Wanted for murder and | |
(allies of DeStefanos) | boss | being on the run since 1994 | organised crime | |
VENDETTA | Antonino Imerti, capo | (survived a car bomb planted by | allied to Condello | |
(Imerti) | (brother-in-law of Condellos) | his boss and hit back by | cosca | |
killing said boss, Paolo DeStefano) | ||||
Nov 1997 in Morocco, Roberto Canale (30), arrested for smuggling drugs for the Imerti | ||||
Antonino Imerti, life, 1998 | ||||
VENDETTA | Domenico Libri, underboss | arrested in Marseille in 1992 | ||
(Libri) | (his son, Pasquale Rocco, is | |||
killed in prison in 1988) | ||||
Antonino Libri, nephew, life (1998) | ||||
Domenico Libri, life, 1998 | ||||
Commisso | Vincenzo Commisso, survived | Ionian coast | heroin | slaughtered a family |
1975 ambush which killed his | Siderno | in Toronto in revenge | ||
boss, Antonio Macri | for the ambush | |||
(brother Vincenzo Macri) | ||||
Cosimo Commisso, 70, injured in ambush (Costa) 1990 | ||||
Remo Commisso | ||||
John Commisso | ||||
Costa | Luciano Costa | Siderno | kidnapping | In 1990 they began |
Giuliano Costa, killed in 1990 by Commissos (revenge) | to challenge the | |||
Pietro Costa, brother | Commissos | |||
Roberto Costa, brother | ||||
Giuseppe Costa, brother | ||||
Giovanni Costa, brother, killed in Toronto in 1991 by Commissos | ||||
Vincenzo Costa, brother, 43, killed in 1991 | ||||
Barbaro-Perre | Antonio Barbaro | Plati | kidnapping | invested money in |
Domenico Barbaro, killed by Saverio Mammoliti in 1978 | growing cannabis in | |||
Pasquale Perre, 25, killed in | Griffith, Australia | |||
shoot-out with cops in 1990 | (linked to Tizzoni family) | |||
Antonio Musitano, | ||||
Rocco Musitano, brothers | allied to Papalia and | |||
Francesco Barbaro, 65 | Trimboli | |||
Giuseppe Barbaro, 36 | ||||
Bruno Palmisano, arrested in 1999 | ||||
Sergi | Saverio Sergi | kidnapping | ||
Francesco Sergi, brother | ||||
Saverio Morabito | drugs | |||
Girolamo Sergi, 61, shot dead in 1992 | ||||
Papalia | Rocco Papalia | Plati | kidnapping | allied to Trimboli and |
Domenico Papalia | Barbaro | |||
Antonio Papalia, 38 | ||||
Trimboli | Francesco Trimboli, arrested | Plati | allied to Papalia | |
in Milan in 1993 | and Barbaro | |||
Labate | Boss Pietro Labate, Life, 1997 | rule north of Reggio Calabria | meat trade, | |
Vincenzo Laurendi, Life, 1997 | extortion, drugs & | |||
Orazio Assumma, Life, 1997 | arms trafficking | |||
Domenico Foti, Life, 1997 | ||||
Paolo Labate, acquitted 1997 | (500 murders) | |||
Pasquale Laurendi, NG, 1997. | ||||
Serraino | Paolo Serraino, 50 | Reggio Calabria | ||
Domenico Serraino, 47,brother | arrested in 1992 | |||
Demetrio Serraino, 48, killed in | ||||
barbershop in 1988 | ||||
Luigi Serraino, killed by Libri’s | ||||
men (DeStefano) in 1989 | ||||
Natale Rosmini, 32, suspected | hitman working for Paolo | |||
of 7 murders, arrested in | Serraino (killed politician | |||
France in Dec 1997 | Lodovico Ligato) | |||
Parrello | Gaetano Parrello killed in 1987 | Palmi | 35 men arrested ’91 | |
by Piccolo cosca (Francesco | ||||
Piccolo jailed for 29 years) | ||||
Candeloro Parrello, 40, was | arms and drugs | |||
arrested in his luxury Rome | trafficking | |||
flat in June 1996. He had | ||||
undergone plastic surgery and | ||||
had a false passport | ||||
Piccolo | Francesco Piccolo (killed | Palmi | ||
Gaetano Parrello) jailed for 29 years | ||||
Condello | Domenico Condello, life (1990) | Palmi | allies of Imerti | |
Pasquale Condello, life (1990) | both freed on appeal in 1992 | (De Stefano cosca) | ||
but Pasquale is finally given life in 1998 | ||||
Gallico | Domenico Gallico | Palmi | ||
Pietro Managro | ||||
Gentile | Tommaso Gentile | Amantea (port) | drug trafficking, extortion | 39 people arrested |
and electoral fraud | in Dec 07 | |||
Salvatore Muto | ||||
Franco | Reggio Calabria | |||
Zito- Bertuca | Reggio Calabria | |||
Lo Giudice- | Cosimo Moschera, 35, | Reggio Calabria | ||
Calabro-Villani | arrested in 1991 | |||
Neri- Quatrone | Reggio Calabria | |||
Iamonte | Natale Iamonte, murdered in | |||
1995 | ||||
Paviglianiti-Pangallo- | Antonio Pangallo, 33 | Cosenza | Pangallo was captured | |
Maesano-Favasulli | boss | Occaforte Rodhudi and Melito | in Spain in Mar 2004 | |
Strangio-Nirta | Giovanni Nirta | San Luca | Feud with Pelle-Romeo | |
(his wife Maria Strangio, 33, | clan began in 1991 when | |||
was killed on Xmas Day 06, | someone threw an egg at | |||
which broke a truce which had | a carnival. It spiralled out | |||
lasted since 2000). | of control and dozens have | |||
been killed. | ||||
In 2007 five men were killed | ||||
Pelle-Romeo | Antonio Pelle aka “La Mamma” | San Luca | in Duisburg, Germany in | |
captured in a bunker 2011 | (they have also lived in | the latest tit for tat | ||
Duisburg since 80s) | (one of the victims was | |||
Marco Marmo (one of the | Sebastiano Strangio but he | |||
Duisburg victims) was believed to | was from Pelle-Romeo clan) | |||
have killed Maria Strangio | Killers were Strangio-Nirta | |||
Pesce | Cicco Pesce, boss, 30 | Rosarno (near Gioia Tauro) | Drug smuggling and | |
(captured in 2011 hiding in | extortion (pizzo) | |||
a bunker) | ||||
JAMAICA
Shower Posse | Vivian Blake, 45 | US, UK | Arrested in Miami | |
(responsible for 1,400 murders | joint boss in 1980s/90s | Jamaica | in Dec 99. Jailed in | |
in US, Jamaica and UK) | Sep 00 for 28 years | |||
Allied to JLP | for murder/racketeering | |||
Lester Coke | Jamaica | Drugs | Died in a fire in his cell in 1992 while | |
joint boss | (Tivoli Gdns) | awaiting extradition to US | ||
Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke | ditto | ditto | Wanted by US. Major operation in | |
(son) | May 2010 to seize him | |||
Mark Coke (Jah T) | ||||
The Spanglers | ? | Kingston | (Sworn enemies of the Shower Posse) | |
allied to PNP | (Trench Town) | |||
Kick Off Head Crew | ? | Harlesden | Drugs (crack) | In feud with MLC |
Much Loved Crew | ? | Tottenham | Drugs (crack) | In feud with above |
Black Rose Criminal Posse | ? | Brixton | Drugs (crack) | ? |
Lock City Crew | ? | Harlesden | Drugs (crack) | ? |
Brixton Crew | ? | Brixton | Drugs (crack) | ? |
Spanish Town Posse | Ray ‘Emma’ Grant, 28 | Kingston/ | Crack | Jailed for life in 1994 |
Brixton | ||||
? | Delroy “Uzi” Edwards, | Jamaica/ | Drugs (NYC, Washington, | Convicted in 1989 of |
b.1959 | US | Baltimore, Philadelphia) | six murders. Given | |
Peaked in 1988 | seven life sentences. | |||
Errol Codling, 40, aka | Birming- | Drugs | Deported to Jamaica | |
Rankin’ Dread aka | ham | (former enforcer for | in 1998 | |
Robert Blackwood aka | Claude Massop, who ran the | |||
Bowyark | JLP in Rema in 1970s) | |||
Willie Haggard | ? | Died in 2002 | ||
David Francis, 37 (in 2000) | Nottingham | By day, a drugs counsellor, | Jailed for 7 years in | |
by night a heroin and crack | Mar 00 for drug dealing | |||
dealer. Worth #1m. | ||||
Ron Francis | ? | Wanted for 9 murders | ||
Oliver Francis, brother | in US | |||
The Supreme Team | Kenneth McGriff | NYC | Crack and heroin dealer | Busted in 2004. |
aka Supreme or Preme | (His friend, rap boss | |||
Irv Gotti was charged | ||||
with laundering | ||||
McGriff’s money) | ||||
Robert “Rambo” Peart | ? | |||
Michael Morrison, aka | ? | On the run from | ||
“Pumpie” | Kansas | |||
Neville “Scorcher” Grant | 42 in 1993 | crack dealer | uses high-powered motorbike | |
and pays off corrupt cops. | ||||
Involved in murder in Jamaica in 01. | ||||
Subsequently kidnapped key witness | ||||
Donovan Rowe (who escaped and fled to UK) | ||||
Donald “One Eye” Brown, | Kicked out of UK | |||
42 | 10 times | |||
Ray Lee, 30 | London | Jailed for 10 years | ||
for killing PC Phillip | ||||
Walters. Now free. | ||||
Anne Marie Dallas, 38 | Drugs | Deported twice | ||
Dwight Morant. B 7/67 | California | Drugs (marijuana) | Fugitive from DEA | |
(LA) | ||||
Pauline Pickersgill,girlfriend | Money laundering | ditto | ||
Donald “Zeeks” Phipps | Kingston | Arrested in Kingston | ||
in Sep 98 (sparked riots) | ||||
Trevor Miller, 24 | London | (suspected of three murders) | Jailed for life in 1989 | |
aka Sammy Dread | for murder (killed Alwyn Alfred in Acton in 1987) | |||
Barron Campbell, aka | London | (cousin of Bicycle, see | Ditto | |
Danger Mouse | below) | |||
Leroy ‘Fitz’ Hughes | London/ | Jailed for murder of | ||
and | Jamaica | Mickey St George Williams | ||
Norman ‘Bicycle’ Campbell | in 1987 | |||
Andrew Cunningham, 29 | Kilburn | Jailed for 5 yrs in 1989 | ||
Desmond Watkins, 21 | Harlesden | Jailed for 6 yrs in 1989 | ||
Brian Tomlinson, 27 | Harlesden | cocaine (addict) | Jailed for 17 yrs in 1989 | |
Barrington Howard, 20 | S London | Acquitted of murder | ||
of Chris “Tuffy” Bourne | ||||
Devon Lindo, 20 | S London | ditto | ||
Albert Gentles, 23 | S London | ditto | ||
Leon Virgo | Jamaica | Jailed for life in NY in 1992 for murder of Tanya Long (1987) | ||
Leroy Smith, 26 | Jailed for 25 yrs in 1996 | |||
for shooting 2 cops | ||||
Samson Misra, 27 | Gipsy Hill | “tie-up” raids | ||
Wendell Daniels, | ? | Jailed for 10 years in 1992 | ||
millionaire | ||||
Calvin Berry | S Ldn/ | Wanted in connection with | He was deported in | |
Jamaica | conspiracy to rob Adelle | 2001 to Jamaica but | ||
Described at Old Bailey | Hamilton in July 2001 (she | NSY have issued a | ||
trial as a “very dangerous | died after being tied up by | warrant for his arrest | ||
man”. Rumoured to have | two hired robbers) | |||
killed his cousin. | ||||
Orlando Francis, 25 | Jamaica | Illegal immigrant who was | ||
crack addict | hired by Berry and his girlfriend | |||
Crystal Whilby to rob Adelle | Old Bailey judge | |||
Hamilton in Jul 2001. Jailed | ordered him to | |||
for 8 years for manslaughter | be deported at the | |||
in Oct 2002. | end of sentence | |||
Christopher Howell, 30 | Jamaica | ditto | ditto | |
Owen Clarke’s gang | Owen Clarke, 46 (in 2004) | Jamaica/ | Jailed for 13 years in June 04 | Caught in a raid |
aka “Father Fowl” | Sudbury | for producing, possessing and | which yielded 51kg | |
(north | supplying crack (used mules | of crack. | ||
London) | to smuggle it into UK) | |||
Jason Sadler, 24 | Wembley | Jailed for 5 yrs in 2004 | ||
(from Wembley) | (Clarke’s lieutenant) | |||
Evan Powell, 21, NFA | UK | Jailed for 3 and a half years | ||
in 2004 (courier). | ||||
SAD Posse | Eaton Green, 26 | Jamaica | supergrass (brought into | Jailed for 6 years for |
UK by Scotland Yard) | robbery in Nottingham | |||
ditto | Rohan Thomas, 37 | Jailed for 14 yrs for | ||
same robbery | ||||
ditto | Steven Crossdale | ? | ||
Andrew Mitchell, 27 | Lozells | shooter | ? | |
Darren Tyndale, 26 | NFA | crack dealer | ? | |
Gary Wilson, 24 | Handsworth crack dealer | ? | ||
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Wilson’s gang | Peter Wilson, (dob 12/60) | Lewisham | crack cocaine | Jailed for 14 years at |
(had connections in Jamaica, | Croydon CC in Dec 01 | |||
New York and Miami) | Lisa Murray (31),c law wife | ditto | ditto | Jailed for 3 years for |
money laundering | ||||
Joe Newman (dob 12/59) | Lewisham | ditto | 8 yrs for drug production | |
Anthony Skyers (dob 8/75) | Lewisham | ditto | 6 yrs for supplying drugs | |
Colin Jones (dob 8/61) | NW10 | ditto | 5 yrs for conspiracy to supply | |
Marcia ‘Debbie’ Derson (30)Brockley | ditto | 7 yrs for conspiracy to supply | ||
Beverley Tracey (38) | Lee | money laundering | 2 yr community rehab order | |
(worked at Nat West Bank in Greenwich, where she had safety deposit box containing £122k) | ||||
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Lincoln White’s gang | Lincoln White (10/12/64) | Angell | £170m crack ring | Convicted of |
had homes in Dulwich | Town | (largest ever seizure of crack) | conspiracy to sell crack | |
and Montego Bay | (Lambeth) | (Operation Godwit) | in March 2004 at Kingston CC (London) | |
Errol Williams, 30 | Brixton | ditto | ditto | |
Michael Small, 37 | Huddersfld | ditto | ditto | |
Julio Vispo, 36 | Streatham | ditto | ditto | |
Maxine Hemmings, 37 | Mitcham | ditto | ditto | |
Janet Scott, 41 | Lewisham | ditto | ditto | |
Yuleane Tulloch, 27 | Clapham | ditto | ditto | |
Phillip Hearsum, 51 | Bradford | ditto | ditto | |
Kemi Osagie, 21 | Liverpool | ditto | ditto | |
Natalie Osagie, 20 | Liverpool | ditto | ditto | |
Openshaw Crew | Tommy Pitt, 24, boss | Openshaw | drugs | Jailed for life at |
Preston Mar 2002 for murder of rival member of Longsight Crew | ||||
ditto | Joshua ‘Slips’ Mensah, 24 | ditto | drugs | Became supergrass against Pitt |
Given light sentence and new identity | ||||
ditto | Stefan ‘Mango’ Proverbs,21 | Hulme | drugs | Admitted drugs and gun offences |
at above trial | ||||
ditto | Moses ‘Mo’ Boake, 20 | Moston | drugs | ditto |
ditto | Gregory ‘Pinky’ Day, 24 | Fallowfield | drugs | Found guilty of drugs |
and gun offences | ||||
ditto | Mark ‘Simmo’ Simons, 22 | Moston | drugs | ditto |
ditto | Warren Coudjoe, 20 | Gorton | drugs | ditto |
ditto | Big Dougie’ Thorne, 25 | Longsight | drugs | ditto |
ditto | Sandra Thorne, 27 | Longsight | drugs | ditto |
Longsight Crew | Marcus Greenidge, 21 | Longsight | drugs | Shot dead by Pitt |
in Sep 2000 | ||||
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Hackney Posse | see below: all convicted in Apr 02 in connection with incident at 2000 Notting Hill Carnival in which | |||
Abdul Bhatti died | ||||
Daniel Frederick dob16/09/83 of 14 Shelley House, Shakespear Walk, N16 | ||||
Jermaine Brown dob 01/05/83 of 5B Cleveland Rd N1 3ES was convicted on 22/2 at Blackfriars CC to be sentenced on 3/5. | ||||
Joseph Lawson dob 06/03/79 of 30 Mount Pleasant Hill, E5 was convicted of violent disorder at Blackfriars CC on 22/2 and will be sentenced on 3/5/02 | ||||
Michael Coe dob 16/3/81 of 185 Evelyn Court, Amhurst Rd N16 | ||||
Pepe Brown dob 01/05/83 of 60 Lawford Road, N1 5BR | ||||
Kirk Wynter dob 16/11/82 dob of 19B East Bank, N16 was convicted of violent disorder at Blacfriars CC on 22/2 and will be sentenced on 3/5/02 | ||||
Daniel Watts dob 13/04/82 of 24 Binyon House, Milton Grove, N16 | ||||
Wayne Thomspn dob 03/05/79 of 107a Mildmay Rd, N1 | ||||
Darien Greenaway (Correct Spelling – Darien) dob 18/2/80 of 100a Sandringham Rd, E8 | ||||
Shaun Greenidge dob 2/11/77 of 95 Fellows Ct, E2 | ||||
Damien Blackwood dob 08/10/79 of 12 Perch Close, E8 was sentenced to 2 years for violent disorder | ||||
Hussein Suleyman dob 23/09/77 of 18 Marble Thornton House, Burma Road, N16 was sentenced to 18 months. | ||||
JAPAN
YAKUZA RECRUIT YOUNG MEN FROM VIOLENT BIKER GANGS KNOWN AS ‘BOSOKOZU’ | |
Basic tenets for all gangs are ‘omerta’, no adultery, financial help for those in need. |
Gang | Leaders | Base | Business | ||
Yamaguchi-gumi | Kenichi Shinoda, 63 | Tokyo | Drugs (amphetamines) | ||
(39,000 members) | aka Shinobu Tsukasa | porn, smuggling and | |||
(earn $1.7bn per annum) | (only took over in 2005) | loansharking, extortion | |||
Jailed for 6 years in 2005 | l | ||||
for possessing gun. | In 2007 they sparked a | ||||
Killed rival in 1970s with | gang war with Sumiyoshi | ||||
a sword (served 13 yrs). | after trying to muscle in | ||||
from Nakano-kai | Yoshinori Watanabe | to Tokyo and | |||
(Shinoda’s predecessor). |
Kyoto | especially Roppongi | |||
Jailed after an underling | |||||
shot police officer. | |||||
Now retired. | |||||
Yukio Yamanouchi | Tokyo | ||||
lawyer | |||||
Masaru Takumi, 61, boss | Kobe | They helped out during | |||
(assassinated by 4 men | 1995 Kobe earthquake | ||||
in a Kobe hotel in Aug 97) | |||||
He was the head of the | |||||
Takumi-gumi sub-clan | |||||
and his killers were from | |||||
the rival Nakano-kai clan | |||||
led by: | |||||
Taro Nakano, 60 | Kyoto | Yamaguchi-gumi | |||
(he may have used | severed ties after murder | ||||
gunmen from the | |||||
Masuda-gumi) | |||||
Tetsuo Nogami | Kyoto | ||||
Saizo Kishimoto | ditto | ||||
Kazuo Nakanishi | ditto | ||||
Kokusui-kai | Kazuyoshi Kudo, 70 | Tokyo | Shot himself dead inFeb 07 | Possibly linked to death of |
(ally of Yamaguchi-gumi) | Sugiura (Sumiyoshi) a few days before |
Sumiyoshi-rengo | Shigeo Nishiguchi, | Tokyo/N Honshu | Gambling, prostitution, | Sumiyoshi-rengo | |
6,000-7,000 | boss (since 1998) | protection rackets (bars | laundered money thru |
(a looser federation than | in the Ginza area) | Joji Obara (Lucie Blackman’s killer) |
Yamaguchi-gumi) | |||||
Ryoichi Sugiura | Tokyo | ditto | shot dead in Tokyo on | (apparently by Kokusui-kai | |
05-Feb-07 | or Yamaguchi-gumi) | ||||
Inagawa-kai | Kakuji Inagawa aka Seijo | Yokohama/central | Sokaiya (a form of | Retired in 1986 and died in 2007 |
9,500 | Honshu | corporate blackmail) | |||
and other crimes |
Susumu Ishii | ditto | Took over in 1986 but died in 1991 |
Yuko Inagawa, aka Toi | Took over in 1990 but died in 2005 |
Hideki Inagawa | Boss since 2005 | ||||
Ichiwa-kai | Hiroshi Yamamoto, boss | Osaka/Shikoku | ditto | DEFUNCT SINCE 1989 |
3,000-4,000 | (broke away from the | rejoined Yamaguchi-gumi |
Yamaguchi-gumi after | after breaking away | ||||
losing out for the | in 1985 | ||||
leadership in 1983) | |||||
Towa Yuai Jigyo Kumiai | Yoshio Kodama was | Kyoto/Kyushu | ditto | ||
(Korean) | boss until death in 1984 | ||||
1,000-2,000 members | |||||
(previously Tosei-kai) | |||||
Matsuba-kai | Kuniyasu Makino, boss | Tokyo/Kyushu | ditto | Involved in a feud | |
(Pine Needle Assocation) | (born I Chun Song, | with Kyokuto-kai | |||
ethnic Korean) | in early 2000s | ||||
Saburo Shiga | runs a cleaning company at Tokyo Disney |
Nippon Kokosui-kai | ? | Tokyo/Hokkaido | protection (Ginza bars) | ||
Dai Nippon Heiwa-kai | ? | ? | now disbanded | ||
Kyokuryu-kai | (Kiyoshi Tominaga, boss) | Okinawa | very small gang | ||
Yoshihiro Onaga, boss | |||||
Shimabukuro | Tameo Shimabukuro, boss | Okinawa | ditto | ||
Kudo-kai | Satoru Nomura, boss | Fukuoka | |||
620 members | |||||
Aizukotetsu-kai | Tokutaro Takayama | Kyoto | allied with Yamaguchi-gumi |
4,500 members | boss (in 1990s) | since 2005 |
KOREA
Korean Killers (KK) | Ha Seung Lee | Los Angeles’ | Prostitution and | Shot dead in 1989 |
Koreatown | extortion | |||
Korean Power | ? | New York | Prostitution, drugs, | |
extortion (firebombing) | ||||
North Korean Mafia | ? | N Korea/Russia | Smuggling heroin into | |
Russia |
MEXICO
Tijuana Cartel | Alberto Benjamin Arellano | Tijuana/Mexicali | Drugs (cocaine, | Arrested in 1982 in |
-Felix, boss, aka El Min | heroin, marijuana, | California (in possession | ||
d.o.b 12/3/52 | also | methamphetamines) | of 100kg of cocaine). | |
or AFO | (Sinaloa state, | Escaped. Was finally captured in Puebla state, Mexico, in 2002. Was extradited to US in 2011 and jailed for 25 years. Currently in federal penitentiary in Virginia | ||
(Arellano-Felix Organisatio) | Ramon Arellano-Felix | Jalisco, Michoacan, | hires hitmen from | Was wanted for ambush at Guadalajara airport (attempted murder of Guzman-Lorea) |
was once part of Felix Gallardo’s Guadalajara Federation | brother, enforcer | Chiapas and | Mexican or California | In 2002 he was shot dead by a policeman in Mazatlan, Sinaloa. It is believed to have been set up by El Chapo. |
Now defunct | ||||
Carlos Arellano-Felix, brother | Surgeon and money launderer | Whereabouts unknown | ||
Francisco Rafael | co-ordinated the | Arrested in San Diego | ||
Arellano-Felix | buying and selling | in 1980 (205kg of cocaine) | ||
Escaped. Arrested in 1993. Extradited. Released in 2008. Assassinated by a man dressed as a clown in 2013. | ||||
Enedina Arellano-Felix | La Jefa (The Chief) | Still at large | ||
Francisco Javier | Captured in 2006 while fishing off Baja California. Jailed for life. Reduced to 23 years. | |||
Arellano-Felix | ||||
Eduardo Arellano-Felix | co-ordinates | Arrested in 1982 in | ||
dob 10/11/56 | smuggling into US | California. Captured in 2008. Extradited to US. Jailed for 15 years. Is in federal penitentiary in New York state | ||
Luis Arellano-Felix | Culiacan, Sinaloa | Runs front businesses | ||
26/01/1966 | ||||
Jesus Labra, uncle | Tijuana | He was arrested in 2000. Extradited in 2008. Jailed for 40 years | His lawyer, Gustavo Galvez was shot dead in March 2000 | |
aka Chuy or El Senor | ||||
Ismael Higuera Guerrero, | Sinaloa | Controlled day-to-day | Wanted for his part in a shootout in 1994. | |
aka El Mayel, dob 17/3/61 | operations | Arrested in 2000. Extradited in 2006. Jailed for 40 years in US | ||
Luis Alfonso Velarde | Tijuana | ambushed and shot dead in April 08 | ||
aka El Muletas (Crutches) | ||||
Gustavo Rivera Martinez | Tijuana | narco-corrido written about him | ||
aka P-1 | Extradited to US in 2019 | |||
Jorge Briseno | Tijuana | may have been responsible for ambush which | ||
aka El Cholo | killed El Muletas | |||
Tres Lletres (Mr 3 Letters) | Tijuana | ? | ||
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Juarez Cartel | Amado Carrillo Fuentes, | Novalato, nr Ciudad | Drugs (cocaine) | Died, aged 41, in July |
(aka the Vicente | aka Lord of the Skies, | Juarez, Guadalajara, | allies of the | 1997 during plastic |
Carrillo Fuentes | worth #25bn | Hermosillo, Torreon | Rodriguez-Orejuela | surgery operation |
Organisation or VCFO) | cartel in Cali | |||
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, | Ciudad Juarez | ditto | Arrested in 2014 in Mexico. | |
brother, succeeded him | (born in Guamachilito | |||
(born October 1962) | in Sinaloa) | |||
aka El Viceroy | ||||
Rafael Aguilar Guajardo | Juarez | Became leader after death of Pablo Acosta | Shot dead in 1993 in internal squabble | |
ex police (DFS) | ||||
Juan Jose Quintero Payan (aged 69 in 2011) | Juarez | one of the founders of the cartel | Jailed for 18 years in 2011 in Texas | |
Juan Pablo Ledezma (born in 1987) | Juarez | one of the leaders in 2020 | Has $2m bounty on his head from Mexican government. Sinaloa Cartel also wants to kill him | |
New Juarez Cartel (since 2011) | Cesar “El Gato” Carrillo Leyva | Juarez | reportedly in charge in 2011 | |
Juan Jose Alvarez-Tostado Galvan aka El Compadre | Ciudad Obregon | ditto | arrested in Jan 05. Extradited to US. Jailed for 18 years in 2019 | |
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Sinaloa Cartel | Ismael Zambada | Sinaloa | ditto | Has become leader since El Chapo went to prison |
aka El Mayo | ||||
Hector Palma aka El Guero (Blondie)
borin in 1940 |
Sinaloa | was leader before El Chapo | His wife Guadelupe was murdered by her lover Rafael Clavel in 1985. He also killed their two children. Palma then killed this three children. Palma was arrested in 1995 and served time in US jail. Extradited to Mexico in 2016, he is serving a sentence in Altiplano prison. | |
Commands his own hit squad known as Los Pelones or Los Negros | Joaquin Guzman aka El Chapo (Shorty)
aged 62 in 2019 |
Sinaloa | ditto | He was jailed in 1993 but escaped from prison in 2001. Became the de facto leader in 2005. He was recaptured in 2014 but escaped from jail again the following year using a tunnel dug under his shower. In October 2015, while a fugitive, he met actor Sean Penn (through actress intermediary Kate del Castillo) to do an interview for Rolling Stone magazine. He was recaptured in 2016, extradited to the US and in 2019 he was given a life sentence to the Florence supermax prison in Colorado. |
(started off as protégé of Miguel Felix Gallardo of the Guadalajara cartel in 1980s) | ||||
Javier Torres Félix (born 1960) – came up under Juan Manuel Salcido Uzeta (alias “El Cochiloco”) who was murdered by Gallardo in 1988 | Sinaloa | right-hand man of El Mayo | In jail in Mexico (in 2020) | |
Guzmán’s son Iván Archivaldo, known as “El Chapito”, was arrested in Guadalajara | Arrested in 2005 on money laundering charges. Released in 2008 | |||
Guzmán’s son Édgar Guzmán López died after a 2008 ambush in a shopping center parking lot, in Culiacán, Sinaloa | ||||
Another of Guzmán’s sons, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, known as “El Gordo” (“The Fat One”), then 23 years old, was suspected of being a member of the cartel and was indicted on federal charges of drug trafficking in 2009 with Guzmán, by the U.S. District Court of Northern Illinois, which oversees Chicago | ||||
Santiago Meza aka El Polozero (The Stewmaker) | admitted dissolving 300 bodies. Arrested in 2009. Still awaiting sentencing in 2017 | |||
Beltran Leyva Organisation (branch of Sinaloa cartel) | Edgar Valdez Villareal, aka La Barbie | Acapulco | Transporting and wholesaling drugs | Arrested in 2010. Extradited to US. Serving 49 year sentence. |
(head of Los Negros) | ||||
Jaime Valdez Martinez | Nuevo Leon | enforcer | Arrested in June 2006 | |
(associate of La Barbie) | ||||
Hectora Beltran Leyva | Sinaloa | one of the leaders | shot dead in 2009 by Mexican marines | |
Arturo Beltran Leyva | Sinaloa | one of the leaders | shot dead in 2009 | |
Alfredo Beltran Leyva (El Mochomo, The Desert Ant) | Sinaloa | ditto | Arrested in 2008. Extradited and jailed for life in US | |
Carlos Beltran Leyva | Sinaloa | brother | Arrested in 2009. In jail | |
Juan Jose Esparragoza aka “El Azul” | (abandoned Felix Gallardo to join Juarez and then Sinalo Cartels) | Ex cop (DFS) | Reportedly died in 2014 | |
Amezcua Contreras bros. | Jesus Amezcua-Contreras | Guadalajara | Meths | Jailed in 1998 |
aka the Colima Cartel | ||||
(now part of Sinaloa Cartel) | Adan Amezcua-Contreras, brother | ditto | Meths | ditto |
Luis Ignacio Amezcua-Contrerars, brother | ditto | Meths | ditto | |
Their sisters have taken over control of meth production for Sinaloa Cartel | ||||
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Guadalajara Cartel (defunct) | Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo | Guadalajara | was boss until 1989 | Jailed since 1989. Depicted by Diego Luna in Netflix show Narcos Mexico |
The Caro Quintero brothers | Rafael Caro Quintero | Ciudad Juarez | boss | Jailed in 1985 for the murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Released in 2013. Now a fugitive with a $20 m bounty on his head. |
(defunct Guadalajara cartel) | boss | |||
Sonora Cartel (defunct) | Miguel Caro Quintero (aged 57 in 2020) | ditto, Hermosillo | brother of Rafael | Jailed in 1992. Released. Arrested and jailed in 2010. Released and deported back to Mexico in 2019. |
Ernesto Fonseca aka Don Neto. Born 1930 | Sinaloa | formerly close to Felix Gallardo | Jailed for 40 years in 1985 for murder of Kiki Camarena. Still in jail in 2020. | |
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La Familia Michoacana | Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas aka El Chango (The Ape). Aged 46 in 2020 | Michoacan or Mexico City | leader | Arrested in 2011. Awaiting extradition to US |
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Knights Templar Cartel | Servando Gomez aka La Tuta (The Teacher) | Michoacan | leader | Broke away from La Familia Michoacana. He was arrested in 2015. Jailed for 55 years in 2019. |
ditto | Enrique Plancarte Solís | Michoacan | joint leader | Shot dead by Mexican Navy in gunfight in 2014 |
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South East Cartel | Jose Albino Quintero Meraz | Quintana Roo state | Cocaine | Arrested and indicted by DEA in 2002 |
(never a major force) | ||||
Jorge Manuel Torres Teyer | ditto | ditto | ||
Alcides Ramon Magana | ditto | ditto | ||
Gilberto Salinas Doria | ditto | ditto | ||
Mario Ernesto Villanuevaditto ditto Madrid, governor of Quintana Roo state | ditto | ditto | ||
Luis Ernesto Villanuevaditto ditto Tenorio, son of governor | ditto | ditto | ||
Consuelo Marquez, | New York | Laundered their money through Lehman Brothers and Wall St | ||
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The Gulf cartel | Juan Garcia Abrego, boss | Matamoros, Tamaulipas state | Cocaine (smuggles it in through Texas) | Arrested in 1996 in Mexico. Extradited to US and jailed for life. |
were inolved in battle with Sinaloa Cartel over control of Nuevo Laredo in 2005 and Acapulco in 2006 | (took over from his uncle, Juan Nepomuceno Guerra, who died in 2001) | |||
Later fought long war with Los Zetas | ||||
Humberto Garcia Abrego, brother | ditto | Arrested in 1994 on money laundering charges but inexplicably released in 1997. Still a fugitive. | ||
Oscar Malherbe de Leon | ditto | became boss | Jailed in 1997 | |
Osiel Cardenas, boss | ditto | ditto | Arrested in Mar 2003 in Matamoros. Extradited to US. Jailed for 25 years. | |
(set up a hit squad called Los Zetas, former Mexican special forces troops). They later defected and became their own cartel and declared war on the Gulf Cartel | ||||
Luis Alberto Flores Blanco (El Pelochas) | leader | Arrested in Queretaro in 2018. Facing trial. | ||
Juan Manuel Loza Salinas aka El Toro (The Bull) | leader | Still a fugitive | ||
Later went to war with Los Zetas | Allegedly bought vast quantities of guns from George Iknadosian, an Arizona gun dealer. He denied it and later sued the ATF https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/george-iknadosian-accused-of-supplying-mexican-cartels-with-guns-sues-arizona-city-of-phoenix-and-terry-goddard-6649311 | |||
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Los Zetas | Arturo Guzmán Decena aka Z1 | Leader (when they were part of the Gulf Cartel) | Shot dead by Mexican soldiers in 2002 | |
Their peak of power was in 2012. They are currently on the wane, without clear leadership. Losing grounds to CJNG | Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano aka Z3 | Leader (when thety broke away from Gulf Cartel) | He was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Navy in 2012 | |
Unlike other cartels, the Zetas did not buy alliances so much as terrorize their enemies. They tortured victims, strung up bodies, and slaughtered indiscriminately, as was brutally illustrated in August 2010, when the Zetas killed 72 migrants and dumped their bodies in a hole in Tamaulipas. | Rogelio González Pizaña (born 1974) aka Z2 | Second in command after Z1 killed | Was arrested in 2004. Walked free due to a technicaility in 2014. He was killed along with his family by the Gulf Cartel in 2015 | |
Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales aka Z40 (born in 1970) | Became leader after Z3 died | Arrested in 2013. Jailed in 2017 in Mexico. Still wanted for extradition to US | ||
Cartel del Noreste (Northeast Cartel) | ||||
(part of Los Zetas) | Óscar Omar Treviño Morales, brother, aka Z42 | Became leader after Z40 arrested | Arrested in 2015. | |
Ramiro Pérez Moreno aka El Rana (The Frog) | Potential leader | Arrested in March 2015 | ||
José Treviño Morales, brother of Omar and Miguel | Money launderer | Arrested at a horse breeding ranch in Oklahoma in 2013 and jailed for 20 years | ||
Galindo Mellado Cruz aka Z9 | One of original Los Zetas | Killed in gunfight with Mexican authorities in 2014 | ||
The Old School Zetas (Zetas Vieja Escuela) | Moisés Escamilla May, 45, aka Gordo May (Fat May) was the leader of the Old School Zetas, a group within Los Zetas. He died of COVID-19 at Puente Grande maximum security prison in Jalisco state in May 2020. He was serving a 37-year sentence for organised crime, including his role in the decapitation of 12 people in Yucatán. | Cancun | cocaine | They are the main supplier of cocaine in Cancún, smuggling it via maritime routes from Central America into the popular beach resort. |
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In 2016 the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) emerged | Ruben Oseguera aka El Mencho. a former police officer | Mexico City and Jalisco state | cocaine | He is on the loose. DEA has put $10m price on his head (in 2019) |
NIGERIAN AND GHANAIAN
? | Oluwole Ogungbuyi, 40 & | ? | Drugs | Put on White House | Arrested | ||
his wife Abeni | list of top 12 drug | Apr-01 | |||||
dealers | for conspiracy | ||||||
to import heroin | |||||||
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? | Rebecca Atobrah, 49 | Gypsy Hill | Drugs | Jailed for 18 years in | Bought property and vehicles | ||
(originally from Ghana) | S London | (crack) | Feb 02 for conspiracy | in Ghana (which was seized | |||
btwn £3m | to sell drugs (£2.9m | and forfeited) | |||||
& £6m | confiscated from her) | ||||||
Joseph Dartey, 48, | London | ditto | Jailed for 14 years | ||||
her trusted lieutenant | NW2 | (£500,000 confiscated) | |||||
Patrick Reid, 59 | Harlesden | ditto | Jailed for 12 years | ||||
distributor | NW10 | (£500,000 confiscated) | |||||
Delroy Abrahams, 36 | Harlesden | ditto | Jailed for 12 years | ||||
distributor | (Stonebridge Park) | ||||||
Emile Beckford, 42 | Harrow | ditto | Jailed for 10 years | ||||
distributor | (£350,000 confiscated) | ||||||
Sandra Lyndsey, 40 | Harlesden | ditto | Jailed for 5 years | ||||
(Abrahams’ girlfriend) | |||||||
Solomon Nubour | ? | > | ? |
POLAND
Paul Ferris | Glasgow | Various crimes | In April 1999 he | Acquitted in 1992 |
(aged 37 in 2002) | (base was Caravelle | (but never drugs) | was jailed for 10 | of murdering |
Inn in East End) | Most recently | yrs (reduced to 7) | Arthur ‘Fat Boy’ | |
done for gun-running | for weapons offences | Thompson Jr after | ||
longest trial in | ||||
Scottish history | ||||
Joe McAuley | associate of Ferris | ditto | Jailed for 4 years | |
in above trial | ||||
Two of Ferris’s sidekicks were assassinated (by Thompsons) in revenge after Fat Boy died. | ||||
(Robert Glover and Joe Hanlon) | ||||
Ian ‘Blink’ McDonald | Glasgow | Armed robbery | Released in 2002 | Blames McGraw |
(associate of Ferris) | after 16 yrs for | for his conviction | ||
armed robbery | ||||
Egun Onerilmus | Glasgow | Heroin importer | Associate of Ferris | |
aka Eric The Greek | (from Turkey) | for past 10 years | ||
Richard Hayes, 55 | Glasgow/Spain | Hashish | Arrested in Apr | (Also arrested |
or Ricky Hayes | 2002 in Spain | was William Howard | ||
for hash trafficking | 41, from Stirlingshire) | |||
Tam Bagan, 45 | Glasgow | Security van hijacks | Released in 2002 | Former pal of |
(in 2002) | after 12 years for | Ferris (they’ve | ||
security van hijack | fallen out since) | |||
Martin Hamilton | Glasgow/Edinburgh | Drugs | In Nov 2000 he | He was said to |
homosexual | (heroin) & torture | was jailed for life | be setting up a | |
(used to rape young | for supplying | drugs operation | ||
boy dealers) | heroin & torturing | ready for when | ||
aka Hammy The Poof | dealers/enemies | Ferris came out | ||
The Thompsons | Glasgow | Crime (Drugs) | Arthur Thompson | Their power has |
(Provanmill area) | Sr died of a heart | very much waned | ||
attack in 1993 | since Fat Boy | |||
died. | ||||
In Aug 1991 his | ||||
son Arthur ‘Fat | ||||
Boy’ Jr was shot | ||||
dead while on | ||||
home leave | ||||
That left another | ||||
son, Billy, 31, to | ||||
inherit the empire. | ||||
He was freed from | ||||
Barlinnie in 1995 | ||||
but was stabbed | ||||
& critically injured | ||||
in Aug 2000. | ||||
William Lobban, 32 | Glasgow | Robbery | Jailed for 6 yrs | |
(in 2002) | in 1993 for holding | |||
up Pipe Rack pub | ||||
in Glasgow | ||||
Billy Blackledge | from Coalburn, | Drugs (cocaine) | Wanted by FBI | Went to US and |
Lanarkshire but fled | and DEA. He | began importing | ||
to Fort Lauderdale, | faces up to 60 | coke from Cali | ||
Flordia in 1970s. | years in jail if | cartel to Canada | ||
Now on the lam | caught. | using Hell’s | ||
Angels (also | ||||
shipped drugs to | ||||
Europe) | ||||
Richard ‘Nutty’ | killed in a gun | (his daughter | ||
Blackledge, son | battle in 1992 | Mandy lives in Lisbon) | ||
David Santini | ? | Drugs – said to be | Currently serving | Worth #5m |
aged 33 in 2000 | Scotland’s biggest | 13 years in jail | ||
former grocer | heroin dealer | |||
John Carroll, sidekick | also jailed | |||
Roddy McLean | Edinburgh | Drugs (cannabis) | Serving 21 years | Owns several |
known as “Popeye” | (Customs officer | for smuggling pot | flats and legitimate | |
59 in 2003 | Alan Soutar died | (moved from | businesses. | |
(known to have links with Adams family) | during raid on | Saughton jail | Worth #4.5m | |
McLean’s boat) | to Leyhill) | (wife Susan) | ||
Roddy McLean Jr | ditto | ditto | Jailed for 12 yrs in | Released after |
37 in 2003 | 1997 | just 4 years | ||
James Hamill | Aberdeen/Glasgow | Drugs (heroin) | Serving 18 years | Flooded NE |
aged 40 in 2000 | (lives in nrby Cathkin) | for drugs offences | Scotland with | |
heroin in mid-90s | ||||
(60 addicts died) | ||||
Worth #4m. | ||||
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Tam ‘The Licensee’ | Glasgow | Drugs, pubs, | Acquitted at | Lives in Tenerife |
McGraw | ice cream vans, | same trial that | ||
clubs, etc | Healy got jailed | |||
John Healy | Glasgow | Drugs | Serving 10 years | Invested his money |
aged 41 in 2000 | for trafficking but | in pubs and clubs | ||
(McGraw’s former | said to run his | Worth #2.5m. | ||
right hand man) | empire from jail | |||
Stewart ‘Speck’ Boyd | Glasgow | Security | Released in Jan | (Acquitted of |
(associate of Healy) | (FCB security in | 2002 after 18 | murder of Mark | |
Age 38 in 2002 | Paisley) | month term for | Rennie in 1997) | |
intimidating | ||||
witness John Jeffrey | ||||
Margaret McGraw | Glasgow | (wife of Tam McGraw) | Said to be the brains behind the business | |
Trevor Lawson | Glasgow | Drugs | Bulldozed the | Died in Jan 2002 after |
(McGraw’s sidekick) | Caravel in 1991 | being chased in front of a car | ||
Snadz Adams | Glasgow | Drugs | Involved in | Now keeps himself |
(McGraw’s bro-in-law) | Ice Cream Wars | to himself | ||
Billy McPhee | Glasgow (Castlemilk) | Drugs | Hitman and | Was involved in knife attack on |
close associate | TC Campbell in April 2002 | |||
Gordon Ross | Glasgow | One of McGraw’s lieutenants (and close friend of Lawson) | ||
Craig Devlin | Glasgow | ditto | Survived an attack in 2004 | |
John McCartney | Glasgow | ditto | Survived an attack in 2004 (same one as Devlin) | |
aka Joker | ||||
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The McGoverns | Glasgow | Drugs | Tony McGovern | |
(Springburn and | was shot dead | |||
Maryhill) | o/s New Morvern | |||
Bar in Sep 2000 | ||||
Jamie ‘The Iceman’ | Drugs | Killed Tony McGovern but was never | ||
Stevenson | East Kilbride | (formerly | prosecuted. Fled Glasgow but is | |
aka ‘The Bull’ | McGovern’s No 2) | now threatening to take over again. | ||
Gerry ‘Cyclops’ | Glasgow | ditto | Has just (summer 2002) been released | |
Carbin | from prison in Costa Del Sol. His son Gerry, 20, is | |||
Stevenson’s stepson | ||||
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Bobby Dempster | Glasgow | Everything | Known as a | Solid, game |
peacemaker | veteran (no grass) | |||
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Kenneth Togher | Glasgow | Drugs (Colombian | Caught by | Associates of |
aged 33 in 1997 | (Bellshill, Lanarks) | cocaine) | Operation Stealer | Anthony White |
and both jailed | (south London) | |||
for 25 years at the | ||||
Brian Doran | Glasgow | ditto | Old Bailey in 1997 | multi-lingual |
aged 52 in 1997 | but released in | university graduate | ||
aka The Professor | 1999 on appeal | |||
(a technicality) | ||||
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Cole family | Glasgow (Ruchazie) | Albert Cole, 46, and his sons Albert Jnr, 27, and David, 25, | ||
(all three survived being shot in January 2002) | ||||
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Walter Kirkwood | Renton, Dunbarton- | Guns | Jailed in Liverpool | (Grassed up |
ex-TA soldier from | shire | after being caught | by Haase) | |
(46 in 2002) | with a Magnum | |||
and an Uzi | ||||
Got 3.5 years | ||||
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Frankie Donaldson | Fife | Drugs and bootleg | Non-executive | |
booze | director of | |||
Raith Rovers | ||||
George Docherty | Fife | ditto | Donaldson’s | Jailed for 3 years |
aka ‘Goofie’ | right hand man | for having a gun | ||
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Justin McAlroy, 30 | Cambuslang | Drugs | Shot 5 times | (Murder linked to |
outside his home | murder of John | |||
in April 2002 | Hall and David McIntosh | |||
in Larkhall in Oct 2001) | ||||
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Chick Lachlan | Glasgow | ? | Went on the run | Captured and |
extradited from | ||||
Canada | ||||
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East End Crew | Glasgow | Mark Clinton, 32 | Charged with murder of Billy McPhee in March 2003 | |
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THE FOLLOWING ARE MEMBERS OF THE RED HAND COMMANDO (Loyalist paramilitary group) | ||||
Michael Hunter, 33 | NFA | Admitted membership of RHC at High Court in Edinburgh in May 2003 | ||
William Gardiner, 56 | NFA | ditto | ||
Gavin Wilson, 21 | Dundee | ditto | ||
Ronald Cruden, 50 | ditto | ditto | ||
Brian Main, 33 | ditto | Admitted assisting in armed robbery at a pub in Dundee in Sep 2002 | ||
(The court heard how 25 members of the RHC met regularly in Dundee) | ||||
RUSSIA
Solntsevskaya | Sergei Mikhailov, boss | Moscow | Drugs, weapons, | Held in Switzerland in ’96 |
(has 5,000 members) | aka Mikhas (Feb 1958) | (Solntsevo suburb) | extortion, prostitution, | But was acquitted in ’98 |
The gang murdered | Jewish | (moved to Israel in | corporate fraud,money | and moved back to |
US hotelier Paul Tatum | 1994) | Russia. He then sued | ||
Swiss authorities for lost income and won! | ||||
Viktor Averin, number 2 | ||||
(see Brighton | Semion Mogilevich, 53, | Budapest/Prague | laundering | |
Beach mafia) | Mikhailov’s old gulag pal | aka The Red Don | (Made first fortune in | He emigrated to Israel |
was head of Lubertskaya | (dob 30/6/46 Kiev) | 1980s by ripping off | himself in 1990 and | |
(his girlfriend is | Jewish emigres) | invested his dirty money | ||
Katalina Papp, Hungarian) | in nightclubs, gem | |||
(claims he only sells | factories and art | |||
grain) | He moved to Hungary | |||
in 1991 and in 1995 he | ||||
was arrested at the | ||||
U Holubu restaurant | ||||
In 2000 FBI set up a | ||||
taskforce to get him | ||||
Aleksandr Sedov, hitman | ||||
Alexandre Kutzin, arms | ||||
and nuclear smuggler | ||||
Dzemal Khakidze (Georgian) Moscow | ||||
runs their Moscow drugs trade | ||||
(spent 20 years in prison) | ||||
Gafour Rakamov, ally in | Heroin trafficker | |||
Uzbekistan | (has his own gang) | |||
Uralmash | Pavel Fedulev | Yekaterinburg | Everything | Involved in numerous |
syndicate | aka Pashka | (especially industrial | murders. Pay off police and | |
corruption) | judges throughout Sverdlovsk Province | |||
Dolgopruadnanskaya | ? | Moscow? | ||
The Ukrainians | “Scar” | Kiev | He killed the city’s other | |
big boss, was jailed and | ||||
then bought his way out. | ||||
Wiped out Tibor Papay’s | ||||
Hungarian gang in a bar | ||||
in Dunajska Streda, | ||||
Slovakia in March 1999 | ||||
Samara Mafia | Konstantin Berkutov, 33 | Samara | Murdered by an associate | |
killed in April 1999 | of Dima Bolshoy | |||
The Georgians | ? | Moscow | ||
The Tambov Mafia | Vladimir Gavrilenkov | St Petersburg | murder | |
(have 2,000 men) | drug dealing | |||
named after a city 200 | extortion | |||
miles NW of Moscow | money laundering | |||
aka Tambovskaya- | Gennadios Petrov, 50s | Spain | money laundering | arrested along with many |
Malyshevkaya | lived in Majorca and | others during Operation | ||
bought a lot of property | Troika, massive Spanish | |||
there, inc luxury hotel | police in June 2008 | |||
(led by Baltasar Garzon) | ||||
Brighton Beach Mafia | Vyacheslav Ivankov, aka | Brighton Beach area | extortion | Acquitted of murdering 2 Turks at a restaurant |
(actually there are | Yaponchik (Little | of Brooklyn, NYC | in Moscow in 1992 at a trial in July 2005 | |
four separate gangs) | Japanese), boss | (especially the | (killed because their coats were taken before his!) | |
(closely linked to | aged 65 in 2005 | Arbat Café) | ||
Solntsevskaya) | (also branches in | Former boxer Oleg | ||
London, Madrid, | Karatayov was murdered | |||
Paris, Milan, Bogota | at the Arbat in 1994 | |||
and Moscow) | ||||
Lubertsy clan | ? | Moscow? | ||
Ostankino gang | ? | Moscow | ||
(Ostankino suburb) | ||||
Jibu | Kiev | mugging | ||
The Obshina | Nikolay Suleimanov, | Moscow | bank robberies, | |
(Chechens) | boss | kidnapping and white | ||
collar crime, elbowing | ||||
their way into cigarette | ||||
smuggling | ||||
? | “Dzhem” | Vladivostok | ||
(locals) | ||||
? | Gregory Lerner, 47 | Israel | Jailed for 6 years in 1998 | |
for corruption and fraud | ||||
(police dropped charges | ||||
of killing a Russian banker) | ||||
Afghan Veterans’ | Mikhail Likhodei | Moscow | Money laundering | Assassinated in 1998 |
Association | (laundering mafiya | |||
(In 1998 after Likhodei’s | money) | |||
death it split into two | ||||
factions: | ||||
one led by | Valery Radchikov | Survived an assassination | ||
attempt in 1995 | ||||
the other led by | Sergei Trakhirov | Was killed, along with | ||
(RIP) | his wife Yelena, and 11 | |||
others when a bomb | ||||
went off at a funeral | ||||
Orekhovskaya gang | Sergei Butorin, 36, | Moscow? | Extortion, robbery, | Arrested in a brothel in |
joint boss | etc | Castelldefels, NE Spain | ||
in Feb 2001 (nr Barcelona) | ||||
Wanted in Russia for | ||||
29 killings (inc that of | ||||
6 police officers) | ||||
Extradition already started | ||||
Marat Poliansky, 28 | ditto | ditto | ditto | |
joint boss | ||||
Zakhary Kalashov, nicknamed “Shakro the Young”, Kalashov is a prominent member of Russia’s so called “thieves in law” — the masters of the Russian criminal underworld born out of the prisons of the Soviet-era gulag system. Also known as “the Invisible Man”, he lived in Spain for several years but had to flee in 2005 to dodge a major police operation. He was eventually extradited from Dubai to Spain in 2006 and was only released from jail in 2014. In March, a Russian court sentenced him to nine years and 10 months in a high security penal colony in a related extortion case. In July 2018 General Alexander Drymanov, the former chief of the hugely powerful Investigative Committee’s Moscow branch, was arrested by the Federal Security Service (FSB) in his apartment. Drymanov was detained “in a case of accepting bribes by high-ranking officials in exchange for freeing” a notorious criminal, | ||||
In June 2018 Aslan Gagiyev, nicknamed Dzhako, was flown to Russia escorted by police and prison officers, after Austria’s highest court court last year rejected his appeal against extradition. The 47-year-old, who fled abroad in 2013, is accused of organising a criminal gang, banditry, murder, weapons trafficking and embezzlement. Russia has accused Gagiyev’s gang of murdering 60 people including the mayor of the city of Vladikavkaz in the region of North Ossetia, which borders Chechnya in the North Caucasus, as well as the region’s former deputy premier. Both men were shot in their cars in 2008. Gagiyev is “accused of involvement in dozens of contract killings including of law enforcement chiefs, top officials and well-known businessmen,” The Investigative Committee, which probes serious crime and is in charge of his case, said his gang committed killings in Moscow, Moscow region and North Ossetia. The gang’s victims included the heads of two Russian banks. At least 22 of the gang members have already been convicted, with some receiving life sentences. Gagiyev was arrested at Vienna’s main train station in January 2015 on an international arrest warrant. But Austria initially put his extradition to Russia on ice because of concerns about how he would be treated there and he was freed after paying 100,000 euros bail in February 2016. | ||||
? | Teymuraz Chepurov | London | Kidnap/extortion | Jailed for 8 years in |
(dob Nov 1964) Russian | (demanded ransom | London in Dec 2002 for | ||
from student’s father | kidnapping an 18 year | |||
in Latvia) | old Latvian student | |||
Irina Petrusina | London | ditto | Ditto | |
(dob Nov 1965)Lithuanian | ||||
(Chepurov’s girlfriend) | ||||
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Viktor Bout | Ostend, Belgium | arms dealer | Runs company called | |
(born January 1967) | and later UAE | Transavia Export Cargo | ||
(whereabouts now | Made $50m in mid-90s | |||
unknown) | selling weapons to the | |||
Northern Alliance (Afghanistan) | ||||
But he also sold to Taliban | ||||
In late 1990s sent a lot of | ||||
weapons in Africa | ||||
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Izmaylovo gang | Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov | Gambling/extortion | Lived in Moscow, East Germany, | |
(born 1949 Uzbekistan) | France and Italy | |||
Was involved in fixing ice skating at | ||||
2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City | ||||
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Alexander Solonik aka | Contract killer/ | Found dead in Greece | ||
“Superkiller” | extortion | in 1997 |
SCANDINAVIA
THE VIOLENT FEUDING 1993-7 WAS KNOWN AS THE ROCKER KRIGEN (Rocker Wars) | |||
Gang | Main members | Status | Business |
Hell’s Angels | Michael Brokside, 23 | Jailed for 16 years for killing Uffe Larsen | narcotics trafficking, |
(founded in 1940s California, | Kim Jensen, 29 | Jailed for 8 years for killing Uffe Larsen | robbery |
imported to Scandinavia in | Ove Witthoeft | Jailed for 6 yrs for attempt manslaughter | |
1960s) | Jorn Jonke Nielsen | Jailed for 16 years (won libel suit against comedienne who called him a | |
have close ties to Angel | Bent Svane Nielsen,leader | psychopath) | |
chapters in Holland,England | aka Blondie | STRONGHOLDS INCLUDE THE | |
and North America | VESTERBRO area of COPENHAGEN | ||
(red light district) | |||
(Viking Chapter) Denmark | Louis Nielsen, 38 | killed by Bandido rocket attack Oct 96 | |
first chapter in Scandina- | Janne Krohn, 29 | ditto | |
via (controls other chapters) | (this was revenge for airport killing of | ||
Larsen earlier that year) | |||
and affiliated clubs: | |||
MC Finland | |||
Rednecks MC | |||
Aarhus Angels | Jimmy Nissen, president | Jailed for 2 years for drug smuggling | |
(importing marijuana from Holland) | |||
DK Angels | Christian Middelboe,pres | amphetamine dealing | |
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The Bandidos | Michael ‘Lerche’ Olsen | former Angel, who defected, narrowly | amphetamine prod- |
(founded in Texas in 1966) | escaped bomb attack in Drammen, | uction (in Poland) | |
(stole cache of Carl Gustav | Norway in May 1997 | (exported thru Finland) | |
missiles from a Swedish | Uffe Larsen, 32, leader of Dalby Chapter (Denmark), shot dead 1996 | ||
army base and attacked | Mikale Ljunggren,president | shot dead on E4 motorway in Sweden | |
Angels’ Fort Snoldelev in | Jarkko Kokko (Finnish) | shot dead in Helsinki in March 1996 | |
Denmark, base of southern | Big Jim’ Tinndahn,president offered truce in October 1996 | ||
chapter) | (went into hiding in Marseilles) | ||
(in US, they are mainly | IN SEPTEMBER 1997 TINNDAHN AND ANGELS LEADER NIELSEN SIGNED TRUCE | ||
confined to the Deep South) | BUT SAID THERE WOULD BE NO MERGER | ||
(TRUCE BROKERED BY DANISH DEFENCE LAWYER THORKILD HOYER) | |||
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The Brodraskapet | Danny ‘The Hood’ Fitzgerald | ||
(Wolfpack Brotherhood) | (Englishman) | Shot dead in Stockholm in June 1998 | |
ex-cons turned bikers | |||
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Norway | (see also Billy Hayward, UK drug dealer who served 13 yrs in Norwegian jail. Now lives in London. Got £70k for bogus info over The Scream) | ||
Expert on Norwegian crime is Gunnar Hultgroen, who works for the Dagbladet newspaper | |||
The Trise Gang | Bjorn Grytdal | Convicted of the theft of Edvard Munch’s | Conviction quashed |
The Scream from National Gallery in | on a technicality | ||
Oslo in 1994 | (that British coppers | ||
who came over to | |||
help didn’t have | |||
proper paperwork) | |||
Jan Olsen (ex-cop and | ditto | ditto | |
convicted arsonist) | |||
William Aasheim | ditto | ditto | |
Pal Enger (ex-footballer) | ditto | His conviction was | |
allowed to stand. | |||
Served 5 years in jail | |||
Sweden | see below | ||
Sweden |
M-Falangen (Los Suecos) – A Malmo crime syndicate, founded by ethnic Bosniaks from the Sandzak region. Very violent and brutal. They have set up in Spain, where they are known as Los Suecos (The Swedes).
In August 2008 an M-Falangen gang broke into a cash depot in Brondby, Copenhagen and stole 62 million kroner (£7m). The gang, armed with AK-47 assault rifles, used a bulldozer to knock down the depot’s wall and set 11 refuse trucks on fire nearby in a bid to block police pursuers. Fourteen men were convicted of taking part in the heist. They were:
Tayeb Si M´rabet, who was 40, Marco Kristiansen, 42, a Dane, Christoffer Wallin, 30, from Stockholm, Lahoucine Marir, 30, a Moroccan, Mickael Senbit, 28, from Stockholm, Daniel Stokic, 26, from Malmo, Naief Adawi, 36, from Malmo, Rami Zahran, 20, from Malmo, Khalid Zahran, 26, from Malmo, Ismael Coulibaly, 25, from Malmo, Igor Jakovljev, 25, from Malmo, Morten Rasmussen, 37, from Stockholm, Piotr Wladyslaw Gierczak, 37, from Stockholm. Steffen Baadsgaard Andersen, 32, a Dane, Lukas Hasselgren, 38, from Stockholm, and Mwaka Rossi Kalule (aka Rossi Carlsson). In August 2019 a gunman ambushed Adawi, his wife Dr Karolin Hakim, and their young child when they stopped at a falafel kiosk in the Swedish city of Malmo. The assassin fired at Adawi, who handed his two-month-old baby to his wife and ran off. The gunman then turned to Dr Hakim, killing her. On 24 December 2019 a hitman shot dead 36-year-old Flamur “Alex” Beqiri outside his home in Battersea, south London. Beqiri was a friend of Adawi and they are believed to have been involved in the smuggling of cannabis and cocaine through Morocco and Spain.
Brödraskapet (The Brotherhood) – A Swedish prison gang, founded by Danny “The Hood” Fitzpatrick (who was assassinated in 1998). They are a strong presence inside the larger high security prisons like Kumla, Hall and Tidaholm.
Original Gangsters– An Assyrian gang originally, which has since recruited Polish, Yugoslavian and native Swedes.
Södertäljenätverket – An Assyrian mafia, led by Bülent Aslanoğlu, an ethnic Assyrian from Turkey.
Naserligan – An Albanian mafia.
Black Cobra – A gang, founded in Denmark, which has spread to Sweden, where its members are Iraqi or Iranian migrants.
K-Falangen – Another Albanian-dominated gang, based in Malmo.
The Chosen Ones – A Stockholm-based gang, which was founded by Gambia-born Essa Sallah Kioh. Allied with Hells Angels.
The Werewolf Legion – A Stockolm-based gang, led by Rolando Teran de la Torre. Its members are African and South American migrants. Specialises in robbery and extortion.
Asir – A migrant gang led by Süyar Gürbüz an ethnic Assyrian/Syriac. Based in Uppsala, Norrköping, Västerås and Gothenburg.
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SCOTLAND
Paul Ferris | Glasgow | Various crimes | In April 1999 he | Acquitted in 1992 |
(aged 37 in 2002) | (base was Caravelle | (but never drugs) | was jailed for 10 | of murdering |
Inn in East End) | Most recently | yrs (reduced to 7) | Arthur ‘Fat Boy’ | |
done for gun-running | for weapons offences | Thompson Jr after | ||
longest trial in | ||||
Scottish history | ||||
Joe McAuley | associate of Ferris | ditto | Jailed for 4 years | |
in above trial | ||||
Two of Ferris’s sidekicks were assassinated (by Thompsons) in revenge after Fat Boy died. | ||||
(Robert Glover and Joe Hanlon) | ||||
Ian ‘Blink’ McDonald | Glasgow | Armed robbery | Released in 2002 | Blames McGraw |
(associate of Ferris) | after 16 yrs for | for his conviction | ||
armed robbery | ||||
Egun Onerilmus | Glasgow | Heroin importer | Associate of Ferris | |
aka Eric The Greek | (from Turkey) | for past 10 years | ||
Richard Hayes, 55 | Glasgow/Spain | Hashish | Arrested in Apr | (Also arrested |
or Ricky Hayes | 2002 in Spain | was William Howard | ||
for hash trafficking | 41, from Stirlingshire) | |||
Tam Bagan, 45 | Glasgow | Security van hijacks | Released in 2002 | Former pal of |
(in 2002) | after 12 years for | Ferris (they’ve | ||
security van hijack | fallen out since) | |||
Martin Hamilton | Glasgow/Edinburgh | Drugs | In Nov 2000 he | He was said to |
homosexual | (heroin) & torture | was jailed for life | be setting up a | |
(used to rape young | for supplying | drugs operation | ||
boy dealers) | heroin & torturing | ready for when | ||
aka Hammy The Poof | dealers/enemies | Ferris came out | ||
The Thompsons | Glasgow | Crime (Drugs) | Arthur Thompson | Their power has |
(Provanmill area) | Sr died of a heart | very much waned | ||
attack in 1993 | since Fat Boy | |||
died. | ||||
In Aug 1991 his | ||||
son Arthur ‘Fat | ||||
Boy’ Jr was shot | ||||
dead while on | ||||
home leave | ||||
That left another | ||||
son, Billy, 31, to | ||||
inherit the empire. | ||||
He was freed from | ||||
Barlinnie in 1995 | ||||
but was stabbed | ||||
& critically injured | ||||
in Aug 2000. | ||||
William Lobban, 32 | Glasgow | Robbery | Jailed for 6 yrs | |
(in 2002) | in 1993 for holding | |||
up Pipe Rack pub | ||||
in Glasgow | ||||
Billy Blackledge | from Coalburn, | Drugs (cocaine) | Wanted by FBI | Went to US and |
Lanarkshire but fled | and DEA. He | began importing | ||
to Fort Lauderdale, | faces up to 60 | coke from Cali | ||
Flordia in 1970s. | years in jail if | cartel to Canada | ||
Now on the lam | caught. | using Hell’s | ||
Angels (also | ||||
shipped drugs to | ||||
Europe) | ||||
Richard ‘Nutty’ | killed in a gun | (his daughter | ||
Blackledge, son | battle in 1992 | Mandy lives in Lisbon) | ||
David Santini | ? | Drugs – said to be | Currently serving | Worth #5m |
aged 33 in 2000 | Scotland’s biggest | 13 years in jail | ||
former grocer | heroin dealer | |||
John Carroll, sidekick | also jailed | |||
Roddy McLean | Edinburgh | Drugs (cannabis) | Serving 21 years | Owns several |
known as “Popeye” | (Customs officer | for smuggling pot | flats and legitimate | |
59 in 2003 | Alan Soutar died | (moved from | businesses. | |
(known to have links with Adams family) | during raid on | Saughton jail | Worth #4.5m | |
McLean’s boat) | to Leyhill) | (wife Susan) | ||
Roddy McLean Jr | ditto | ditto | Jailed for 12 yrs in | Released after |
37 in 2003 | 1997 | just 4 years | ||
James Hamill | Aberdeen/Glasgow | Drugs (heroin) | Serving 18 years | Flooded NE |
aged 40 in 2000 | (lives in nrby Cathkin) | for drugs offences | Scotland with | |
heroin in mid-90s | ||||
(60 addicts died) | ||||
Worth #4m. | ||||
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Tam ‘The Licensee’ | Glasgow | Drugs, pubs, | Acquitted at | Lives in Tenerife |
McGraw | ice cream vans, | same trial that | ||
clubs, etc | Healy got jailed | |||
John Healy | Glasgow | Drugs | Serving 10 years | Invested his money |
aged 41 in 2000 | for trafficking but | in pubs and clubs | ||
(McGraw’s former | said to run his | Worth #2.5m. | ||
right hand man) | empire from jail | |||
Stewart ‘Speck’ Boyd | Glasgow | Security | Released in Jan | (Acquitted of |
(associate of Healy) | (FCB security in | 2002 after 18 | murder of Mark | |
Age 38 in 2002 | Paisley) | month term for | Rennie in 1997) | |
intimidating | ||||
witness John Jeffrey | ||||
Margaret McGraw | Glasgow | (wife of Tam McGraw) | Said to be the brains behind the business | |
Trevor Lawson | Glasgow | Drugs | Bulldozed the | Died in Jan 2002 after |
(McGraw’s sidekick) | Caravel in 1991 | being chased in front of a car | ||
Snadz Adams | Glasgow | Drugs | Involved in | Now keeps himself |
(McGraw’s bro-in-law) | Ice Cream Wars | to himself | ||
Billy McPhee | Glasgow (Castlemilk) | Drugs | Hitman and | Was involved in knife attack on |
close associate | TC Campbell in April 2002 | |||
Gordon Ross | Glasgow | One of McGraw’s lieutenants (and close friend of Lawson) | ||
Craig Devlin | Glasgow | ditto | Survived an attack in 2004 | |
John McCartney | Glasgow | ditto | Survived an attack in 2004 (same one as Devlin) | |
aka Joker | ||||
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The McGoverns | Glasgow | Drugs | Tony McGovern | |
(Springburn and | was shot dead | |||
Maryhill) | o/s New Morvern | |||
Bar in Sep 2000 | ||||
Jamie ‘The Iceman’ | Drugs | Killed Tony McGovern but was never | ||
Stevenson | East Kilbride | (formerly | prosecuted. Fled Glasgow but is | |
aka ‘The Bull’ | McGovern’s No 2) | now threatening to take over again. | ||
Gerry ‘Cyclops’ | Glasgow | ditto | Has just (summer 2002) been released | |
Carbin | from prison in Costa Del Sol. His son Gerry, 20, is | |||
Stevenson’s stepson | ||||
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Bobby Dempster | Glasgow | Everything | Known as a | Solid, game |
peacemaker | veteran (no grass) | |||
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Kenneth Togher | Glasgow | Drugs (Colombian | Caught by | Associates of |
aged 33 in 1997 | (Bellshill, Lanarks) | cocaine) | Operation Stealer | Anthony White |
and both jailed | (south London) | |||
for 25 years at the | ||||
Brian Doran | Glasgow | ditto | Old Bailey in 1997 | multi-lingual |
aged 52 in 1997 | but released in | university graduate | ||
aka The Professor | 1999 on appeal | |||
(a technicality) | ||||
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Cole family | Glasgow (Ruchazie) | Albert Cole, 46, and his sons Albert Jnr, 27, and David, 25, | ||
(all three survived being shot in January 2002) | ||||
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Walter Kirkwood | Renton, Dunbarton- | Guns | Jailed in Liverpool | (Grassed up |
ex-TA soldier from | shire | after being caught | by Haase) | |
(46 in 2002) | with a Magnum | |||
and an Uzi | ||||
Got 3.5 years | ||||
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Frankie Donaldson | Fife | Drugs and bootleg | Non-executive | |
booze | director of | |||
Raith Rovers | ||||
George Docherty | Fife | ditto | Donaldson’s | Jailed for 3 years |
aka ‘Goofie’ | right hand man | for having a gun | ||
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Justin McAlroy, 30 | Cambuslang | Drugs | Shot 5 times | (Murder linked to |
outside his home | murder of John | |||
in April 2002 | Hall and David McIntosh | |||
in Larkhall in Oct 2001) | ||||
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Chick Lachlan | Glasgow | ? | Went on the run | Captured and |
extradited from | ||||
Canada | ||||
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East End Crew | Glasgow | Mark Clinton, 32 | Charged with murder of Billy McPhee in March 2003 | |
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THE FOLLOWING ARE MEMBERS OF THE RED HAND COMMANDO (Loyalist paramilitary group) | ||||
Michael Hunter, 33 | NFA | Admitted membership of RHC at High Court in Edinburgh in May 2003 | ||
William Gardiner, 56 | NFA | ditto | ||
Gavin Wilson, 21 | Dundee | ditto | ||
Ronald Cruden, 50 | ditto | ditto | ||
Brian Main, 33 | ditto | Admitted assisting in armed robbery at a pub in Dundee in Sep 2002 | ||
(The court heard how 25 members of the RHC met regularly in Dundee) | ||||
SERBIA
Zemun clan | Milorad Lukovic | Belgrade | All sorts | Former commander of Red Berets | |
(Zemun district) | special forces unit which | ||||
committed atrocities in Kosovo | |||||
Mile Lukovic | ditto | ||||
(no relation) | |||||
ditto | Dusan Spasojevic | ditto | ditto | Another former police | |
special operations | |||||
commander | |||||
ditto | Dejan Milenkovic | ditto | ditto | Arrested and released | |
aka Bugsy | after attack on Djindjic in | ||||
Feb-03 | |||||
ditto | The Fool | ||||
ditto | The Rat | ||||
ditto | The Cheat | ||||
ditto | Dragan Ninkovic | ditto | drugs | Arrested in Mar 2003 | |
over Djindjic assassination | |||||
ditto | Zoran Vukojevic | ditto | ditto | ditto | |
(ex-police) | |||||
Svetlana Raznatovic | ditto | Arrested in Mar 2003 | |||
aka Ceca, widow of | for harbouring | ||||
Arkan (glamorous | fugitives (weapons | ||||
busty folk singer) | also found at her | ||||
home) |
SLOVAKIA
Shortly after the killings, Vadalà was charged by Italian prosecutors with trafficking drugs for the ‘Ndrangheta.
SOUTH AFRICA
The Hard Livings | Cape Town (Cape Flats | Drugs, Extortion | Rashied Staggie | Shot and burned to death |
just outside the city – | Violence | by PAGAD in Dec 1996 | ||
Mannenberg district) | ||||
Rashaad Staggie | Survived but eventually fled | |||
(his twin brother) | the area | |||
The Americans | ditto | ditto | Leopold | Enemies of the Hard Livings |
(teamed up briefly to | ||||
defeat PAGAD) | ||||
People Against | ditto | Vigilante group | Mainly Muslims | Its militant wing (which |
Gangsterism and | (subsequently | killed Staggie) was called | ||
Drugs (PAGAD) | corrupted) | G Force |
SPAIN
Gang | Main men | Base | Business |
Laureano “El Pajarito” (Little Bird) Oubina, 56, Galicia’s top drug baron | |||
was extradited from Greece to Spain this week. | |||
He comes from the village of Cambados on the Rias coast. | |||
His wife, Esther Lago, and 16 associates were detained in Oct 1999 over the | |||
seizure of a Honduran vessel, containing 15 tons of hashish, off Morocco. | |||
He is ill-educated former lorry driver but canny and has contacts with | |||
Moroccan mafias. | |||
In 1990 he escaped prosecuted by super-judge Baltazar Garzon. | |||
Last year he was sentenced in his absence to 4 yrs jail and fined £8m for | |||
shipping hashish from Vigo to Holland. | |||
Their £6m estate in Baion, which makes Alberino wine, was confiscated by the | |||
courts in 1994. | |||
Oubina is planning to set up his own website while in prison near Madrid.
THE CHARLINES
GALICIA, SPAIN In August 2018 Manuel Charlin, a once powerful drug baron who headed up a notoriously violent family clan in the northwestern region of Galicia, in a major cocaine operation. A colourful patriarch who has been in and out of prison, the 85-year-old was one of at least 18 people held in the operation that took place in Galicia and other regions including Andalucia in the south, a police spokeswoman told AFP. His son Melchor, who once went on the run for five years, was also among those held. The operation sprung from a major cocaine haul in a boat off the Azores islands in the Atlantic ocean, said Lois Herrera, spokesman for the central government’s representative office in Galicia’s Pontevedra, without giving further details. Charlin is the latest Galician drug baron to have been detained after Sito Minanco, another gangster with a colourful past, was arrested in February on suspicion of trying to re-impose himself in the cocaine trade. Galicia, with its rugged coastline, narrow, winding waterways and mountainous terrain, has long been at the forefront of drug trafficking as smugglers of alcohol and tobacco moved into the drugs trade, particularly cocaine, in the 1980s. They would bring shipments of hashish from Morocco or cocaine from Colombia into Galicia, from where it went onto the rest of Europe. Charlin was one of those, at the head of a notorious family clan known as the “Charlines.” |
THAILAND
FOR UNITED WA STATE ARMY SEE BURMA | ||||
Gang | Leaders | Base | Business | Status/Events |
Kamnan Po gang | ? | Kamnan Po | Gambling dens, | Has killed many rivals |
(from eponymous town on the | massage parlours, | (his son is an MP) | ||
eastern seaboard) | legitimate business | |||
(real estate, hotels) | ||||
Angkinan Clan | Piya Angkinan, boss | Phetburi, southern | various | Uses numerous hitmen |
aka the Khaki Mob (because of | (three of his relatives | Thailand | ||
army/police ties) | are MPs) | |||
Bangkok mafia | Klaew Thanikul, boss | Bangkok | prostitution, drugs | Murdered in 1991 |
(vacuum since) |
TURKEY:
Cakici, 67, was imprisoned for convictions on charges that included instigating murder, armed attack, money laundering, leading an illegal organisation and insulting the president. He had served 16 years of his decades-long sentences before his release.
By @LSGDOTCOM (follow on Twitter)
THE HISTORY OF LONDON’S TURKISH GANG FEUD
turkkurdflagsThe families that make up the Turkish and Kurdish criminal organisations of London have imported thousands of kilos of heroin into the United Kingdom during the last three decades. During which time they have made links with top British and Irish criminals; Albanian people-trafficking networks; Chinese Snakehead gangs and street gangs in Hackney and Haringey. They have been responsible for at least 25 murders, the majority of which are unsolved, and have harboured some of the world’s largest drug traffickers. Their involvement in extortion and protection rackets; human and contraband smuggling; and the availability of firearms is why they are seen as London’s most dangerous mafia. But they do not reflect the law-abiding majority of Turks and Kurds living in the UK.
Introduction
There are three groups of people from the transcontinental country of Turkey currently present in the north east London boroughs of Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Waltham Forest: Turkish; Turkish Cypriot; and Kurdish. In total there are an estimated 220,000. The vast majority have no involvement in crime or violence. The first to come to London were the Turkish Cypriots who began settling in London from the late 1940s, next were Turkish mainlanders arriving largely during the 1960s and 1970s, with a second wave in the 1980s. The Kurdish population came last during the 1980s and 1990s. Many European countries trace the arrival of organised criminals from Turkey to the late 1980s.
Early Murders
The authorities did not become involved or publicly acknowledge criminality within the Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Kurdish communities of north east London until murders began to occur. In March 1994 a 33-year-old Kurdish businessman was told by a close friend: “Get out of London, go abroad, go anywhere”.
“Wherever I go, they will find me,” he replied.
Two days later they did.
Mehmet Kaygusuz, 33, from Wood Green, north London, was playing backgammon in a Turkish cafe in Mildmay Park, Islington. A man entered and shot him dead with a handgun. Kaygusuz was a familiar face in the cafes and social clubs of the Green Lanes area of north London. Some local people believed Kaygusuz had been pressured from unknown sources who were demanding ‘protection’ payments from his business, whilst others suggested he was a member of the left-wing Dev Sol, who had switched to the Kurdish nationalist PKK and was involved in drug trafficking and smuggling immigrants.
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The following year, the body of Hassan Bilgi, 46, a Turkish Cypriot, was found with gunshot wounds dumped in a field in Kent. Police believed the flamboyant Bilgi was a heroin dealer and had several theories about how the London-based criminal ended up in a field near High Halstow, including the possibility that he was driven there at gunpoint from his home on the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke, south east London. Detectives interviewed more than 2,000 people regarding the murder without ever penetrating the wall of silence surrounding his death.
Another Turkish victim discovered outside of London the same year as Bilgi was Mustafa Zarif Ali. The 32-year-old’s body was exhumed following its discovery in a shallow grave on the outskirts of Essenden village in Hertfordshire in April 1996. Zarif came to London a year prior to the discovery, where he became well known in north London’s Turkish community. Police believed that he was introduced to his three killers after becoming involved in the heroin trade with a fourth man, Dervish Sehitoglu. Together Zarif, and his accused killers Mustafa Kuni, Arkin Izzigil and Tan Onbasi, resided on the Sandlings Estate in Wood Green, north London.
In the run up to Zarif’s body being unearthed Sehitoglu was found in control of 40 kilos of heroin and arrested by police officers. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, however, upon appeal, Sehitoglu’s sentence was reduced to eight years. In what is a rare occurrence amongst Turkish organised criminals, he also began talking to detectives. He told them Mustafa Kuni was “very big” in the heroin trade, conducting much of his business from a coffee shop in Philip Lane, Tottenham, north London. He went on to tell detectives that he had regularly handled as much as 250 kilos of heroin at a time with Kuni and that he was present when Zarif was murdered and his body dumped.
Sehitoglu became the chief prosecution witness in the murder trial, and maintained that while he was present at the murder, he was completely unaware the defendants had homicide on their minds. Without his evidence Kuni, Izzigil and Onbasi might never have been brought to trial. He placed the murder date at December 15, 1995, four months before the body was exhumed. Zarif was picked up in a car that evening on the pretence that they were going out for a meal. Instead, with Izzigil at the wheel and Zarif in the front passenger seat, they drove north when Kuni was seen to put some sort of wire around Zarif’s neck. Onbasi produced a gun as Izzigil stopped the car and Zarif was forced out and strangled until he was motionless. The shallow grave was already prepared. Putting forward a motive, Sehitoglu told the court that Zarif had made threats against Kuni and planned to rob him. Sehitoglu denied making the allegations to get his sentence further reduced.
Kuni moved to Northern Cyprus, beyond jurisdiction – the United Kingdom had no extradition treaty with Northern Cyprus. Meanwhile, Arkin Izzigil and Tan Onbasi were cleared of murder. Juries twice failed to reach a verdict following two expensive trials at the Old Bailey which required jurors to be given round the clock police protection. On the third occasion the Crown offered no evidence. It is unlikely that anyone will ever face justice for the murder of Zarif.
On September 16, 1996, Ahmet Cimen arrived in north London. Just 48-hours later his bullet-riddled body was found in a car park off Firs Lane in Winchmore Hill, north London. A group of three or four men were seen dragging the body from a vehicle whilst a 9mm firearm, believed to be the murder weapon, was recovered by police divers from the River Lea near Wharf Road, Ponders End, north London. Cimen was shot a number of times in the head in a metallic beige 7-series BMW which the killers attempted to burn. The Turkish businessman accused of plotting the contract killing later walked free from the Old Bailey after the case was abandoned.
It is understood that Cimen had travelled to London from his base in Amsterdam to collect a large drugs debt. On the night of his murder he had arranged a meeting with several people at a West End restaurant. He never arrived. Police believe that a contract killer was brought in from Turkey to carry out the murder. The decision to abandon the case followed a hearing where the judge in the case refused to allow public interest immunity certificates for certain witnesses, therefore the Crown offered no evidence at a pre-trial hearing.
The next killing took place when Bulent Giritli, 24, was lured to a cafe in Lordship Lane where he was shot twice in the head at close range in a yard at the back of the premises. The reported drug dealer had failed to meet a deadline payment of £54,000 for three kilos of heroin in a deal which was in partnership with criminals based in Glasgow. Giritli, who was based in London, had been working with Mustafa Sungur and two other Turkish men through his partner in Scotland. There was already previous ‘bad blood’ after a previous deal had gone wrong after Giritli had received drugs but had not paid.
Bulent Giritli was summoned to Glasgow and undertook to pay the £54,000. The trial heard Scottish gangster Paul Ferris, months before the murder, was paid by another Glasgow villain named Eric the Greek to come to London to recover £40,000 from Giritli for the previous debt. But Ferris was not able to recover the money for Eric the Greek because he could not track Giritli down. Sungur and his co-defendants gave a final deadline to Giritli when he was summoned to the Tottenham cafe, killing him when he was unable to pay. Sungur disposed of the Browning firearm, another pistol and a silence in the River Lea in Hackney Marshes, east London. Ferris, who was serving time for arms dealing by the time of trial, was forced to attend the proceedings after being called by the defendant’s barrister. Sungur was found guilty of murder whilst his two co-defendants were both acquitted.
The motives behind each of these killings highlight three areas of criminal activity that are particularly associated with Turkish organised crime – protection payments or racketeering, often known as revolutionary taxes under the guise of political militaries such as the Grey Wolves, Dev Sol and PKK, people smuggling and providing transport for illegal immigrants wishing to enter the United Kingdom and finally the international drugs trade, specialising in heroin trafficking.
Activities
Revolutionary Taxes
Historically it has been believed that Turkish business owners in London have been subject to supposed “revolutionary taxes”, which in reality are protection or extortion rackets. In the early 1990s the Turkish Embassy in London began to forward complaints of extortion, made by the expatriate community in Britain, to Scotland Yard. Among the complaints were claims of intimidation among the Kurdish community by fundraisers from the PKK, or Kurdish Workers Party. The PKK’s British arm, the ERNK, or National Liberation Front of Kurdistan, was alleged to have generated £350,000 in 1992 from campaigns targeted within the Kurdish community in Islington and Hackney.
By 1993 the Metropolitan Police had set up a special unit to investigate complaints about protection rackets, blackmail and extortion of Turkish businesses. A later taskforce was set up with Scotland Yard, Customs, the Inland Revenue and the National Criminal Intelligence Service to investigate extortion and racketeering attributed to the PKK in London. Successful prosecutions for those accused of extorting Turkish business owners is rare. In one of the few cases to have reached court in the 1990’s three Turkish men were accused of multiple counts of blackmail against a shop owner on Stoke Newington Road, north London. The three were accused of trying to extort money, a threatened sum of £100 per week, from a shoe shop owner while selling magazines which supported the PKK/Dev Sol.
The businessman claimed he, and other prominent business owners of north London’s Turkish community, were subject to blackmail demands after refusing to buy the magazines. He told the court that he was told: “You have to buy the magazines whether you like it or not. No-one can refuse to buy them. If necessary we will collect money as well. £100 a week.” Each of the co-accused were acquitted on all counts of blackmail in 1994.
In 2002 a survey of shopkeepers and business owners, compiled by the Halkevi Community Centre, found 65% were paying protection money to racketeers. Yasar Ismailoglu, co-ordinator of the Halkevi Community Centre, Stoke Newington, commenting said at the time: “Too many shopkeepers are being threatened for protection money and too many people are afraid of the gangs.” The survey carried out questioned 200 Turkish and Kurdish businesses in London with some reportedly being extorted as much as £10,000 per year. It was further reported that one man in Enfield had his fingers slashed with a knife, warning that they would be cut off, but said he and his business could be protected for £90,000.
Many of the affected businesses were in busy thoroughfares such as Green Lanes (spanning Stoke Newington, Harringay and Palmers Green) and the A10/A1010 which run through north London as Kingsland Road, Stoke Newington High Road, Tottenham High Road, Fore Street and Hertford Road.
Concealing themselves among the law-abiding businesses there are numerous cafes and social clubs that are utilised by Turkish criminals for business meetings. Often these cafes and social clubs are little more than a few tables for which to sit at and partake in illegal gambling, stocking alcohol and cigarettes for sale. Although many are reportedly raided for drugs, the likelihood is that nothing of the sort is found here because it is the meeting place of senior figures within the underworld to discuss business. Nearby however there are no doubt reluctant businesses that are being used in the most profitable form of criminal activity undertaken by Turkish organised crime groups, these premises are known as a kula- a storage place for drugs, most commonly heroin.
Heroin godfathers
Long before the murders criminals from the transcontinental country of Turkey had been quietly importing brown heroin from the Golden Crescent of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. It is transported to the UK via the Balkan route, which consists of long rural roads with none other than the odd service station and cafe, almost impossible to patrol. Heavy goods vehicles have always been the preferred method, with traffickers using even unsuspecting drivers from a host of countries to complete the journeys. In the UK lorry drivers with heroin concealed in their vehicles have come from places such as Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and of course the United Kingdom. Where drivers are aware of their load, the risk is sometimes shared across international borders. Such is the difficulty in monitoring the trafficking Interpol have for many years had an established Balkan Route Team.
In the UK the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) at one point estimated 80% of heroin entering Britain, based on seizures, was controlled by Turkish gang who had usurped a business that was until the 1980s very much controlled by Chinese, Pakistani and Indian criminals in the United Kingdom. The NCIS thought 20 criminal families within the Turkish communities controlled the heroin trade from bases in London, Merseyside, Manchester, Glasgow and Hull. In 1996 customs officers seized more than a ton (1,000kg) of heroin, with over a quarter of that seized in London.
The foremost Turkish drug trafficker in England was David Telliagaoglu, better known by his anglicised name David Telli. Before moving to the UK David Telli had been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment in Germany for importing 2.3tons of cannabis there in 1977. After serving his time he came to reside in West Sussex, in the wealthy Angmering Lane area of East Preston, on the south coast of England where he continued to deal drugs on an international scale spanning Turkey, the UK and as far as the United States through an Armenian contact. He was behind a number of substantial importations of heroin along with right hand man Feridun Dogancioglu of Golders Green, north London.
Telli’s vast profits from the heroin trade were invested via Scottish and Northern Cypriot banks, leading to the Bank of England beginning an offensive against the numerous Turkish and Cypriot banks in England that they believed were being used for laundering drugs money. This led to the closure of the Cyprus Credit Bank in October 1996, owned by the Boyaci family, which is related to Rauf Denktash, then president of the (unrecognised) Turkish Cypriot Republic. He also put cash into massive property deals in exclusive areas of London, including Hampstead, Bishopgate and the City. His downfall began when the Armenian turned DEA (Drug’s Enforcement Agency) informer after being arrested in the US for conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
When the Armenian turned informer US law enforcers began communicating with British Customs officers. As a result of the Armenian’s information Customs were able to trace a £10m importation, concealed in the false bottom of a horse box. Initiating Operation Flotilla, officers tracked a Dutchman who had been hired to drive the cargo into England via Ramsgate. The haul was eventually driven to a garage behind a house in Mays Lane, Barnet, where customs swooped. They seized 90kg of high purity heroin. David Telli was sentenced to 25 years at Snaresbrook Crown Court, later reduced on appeal.
One of the earliest trials of heroin trafficking by Turkish criminals in north east London was heard at the Old Bailey in 1994, it concerned two men linked to the Tottenham Boys network, with the common Turkish surname of Ates, although detectives had only seized a relatively small amount of heroin from a safe house in north-west London – 8.8kg. Meanwhile, around the same time in the neighbouring area of Hackney, Customs & Excise had learnt of a consignment of heroin totalling 187kg that was headed for an address in Lea Bridge Road, Clapton. The target was Bozkurt Cevic who was a key player in heroin trafficking between Turkey and London who had organised the reception and storage of at least 11 consignments worth £22m between 1992 and 1994.
The heroin was transported by lorries from Turkey concealed within bales of cotton, rolls of knitted cotton cloth. On his final consignment, Cevic was under Customs surveillance upon arrival at Heathrow after coming off a flight from Istanbul. He booked into a luxury hotel in Hyde Park Square, it was on the same day that the consignment was arriving through Dover port after crossing the English Channel by ferry. His role in London was to organise the reception and storage in preparation for wholesale distribution. The jury convicted Cevic of conspiracy to import heroin and received a 20-year-sentence.
Another of London’s largest heroin trafficking networks was reportedly run by Taner Konakli and Faruk Koroglu, who were based in Hackney. They were later convicted. Two years later members of the same network from Hackney, including Yucel Konakli and former Turkey football international Gungor Tekin, were snared by an undercover Customs officer as part of another £7m heroin trafficking plot.
Gungor Tekin, who once played for Galatasary and the national side, was alleged to have headed the gang who smuggled 68kg of heroin through a Kent port. A Customs and Excise team discovered the heroin hidden in a secret compartment located under the floor of a minibus. Tekin, Yucel Konakli and two other men were followed from London to the Medway service station on the M2 where they were intercepted. During the case further evidence of cooperating among criminal communities was uncovered by European law enforcement agencies, with this particular hall involving those with links to Turkish, Bulgarian, Albanian and Czech criminals. Tekin was jailed for 23 years and Konakli for 18 years at Kingston Crown Court in 1998.
The next major traffickers to fall in north-east London were Muslum Simsek, who was alleged to have headed a professional and ruthless organisation with its distribution base in Wood Green, north London where the Kurdish Baybasin clan are dominant. Simsek, who based himself in a luxury flat in the London Docklands, was aided in his business by two compatriots, Ali Aksu of Bounds Green and Huseyin Kaynak of nearby Wood Green. Four months before seizing nearly 200kg of heroin brought into the country by Simsek’s network, customs officers began Operation Fletcher in a bid to smash the Kurdish gang and Simsek and Aksu were placed under surveillance. During surveillance the pair were tailed to an area near Vauxhall railway station. Here officers observed them removing packages from a special compartment concealed within a tour bus.
For operational reasons, the driver was allowed to pick up the tourists, who were from the Czech Republic, and travel back into Europe. It is thought that 50kg of drugs were delivered on this occasion (not included as part of the charge). Surveillance continued and Simsek and Aksu were later arrested by armed officers in possession of three black hold alls containing 66kg of heroin, whilst another 72kg was found in a vehicle owned by Aksu and 9kg at Kaynak’s address in Wood Green. On September 14, 1995, Czech coach driver Tomas Honz, from Liberec, was observed waiting with his bus at Westminster Abbey while a party of Czech teachers toured the site. When nobody turned up to collect the consignment he rounded up his passengers and drove back to Ramsgate where customs swooped.
Fifty kilos of heroin were recovered from a compartment concealed beneath one of the bus’ wheel arches. At the time, the 198.5kg haul was the second-largest ever seized in Britain. Judge Jeffrey, at Southwark Crown Court, told Muslum Simsek that he was an “active, enthusiastic and ruthless” participant in the conspiracy, as he was handed a 30 year sentence for conspiracy to import. Ali Aksu, who was the only defendant to plead guilty, was sentenced to 20 years, while Huseyin Kaynak was jailed for 24 years. Bus driver Tomas Honz received 26 years. Like Simsek, Selim Duzgun from nearby Tottenham, north London, was branded by the judge as ruthless having been found guilty of conspiracy to supply heroin the following month. Duzgun and an accomplice were caught with £515k worth of heroin and almost £2,000, some of which was in foreign currency including Deutschmarks. In Duzgun’s home police also recovered a Browning pistol with silencer, together with 25 rounds of ammunition.
In February 1998, two men allegedly linked to the Tottenham Boys proved they had no head for heights when they arrived at London’s Blackwall tunnel in an oversized lorry with a consignment of heroin. The 66kg load, worth an estimated £7.23m, was arranged via an Iranian trafficker based in Amsterdam and arrived at Dover on a ferry from Zeebrugge. Acting on a tip-off undercover Customs officers tailed the artic eventually into London. Reaching the Blackwall Tunnel, the lorry had blocked the northbound entrance to the busy Thames crossing, two of the gang tailing the lorry in a separate vehicle returned to see what was happening only to further block the southbound traffic.
Happy customs officer pounced to arrest the gang whilst motorists fumed at the gridlock, believed to be the worst for a Sunday afternoon in decades. The driver of the truck, 50-year-old Mustafa Karinca from Istanbul was convicted of smuggling and sentenced to 14-years whilst Turkish Cypriot Korkut Eris from Hornsey Road, Holloway, admitted the charge and was jailed for nine years. Feretin Eren of Edmonton, north London, who was a passenger in the lorry cab was acquitted after claiming that he had no idea what was going on. Iranian trafficker Hamid Shamsollahi was jailed for 18 years, found guilty of evading the prohibition on the importation.
The aforementioned Selim Duzgun from Tottenham, who was jailed for conspiracy to supply heroin in 1997, turned police informer and went on to help jail some of north London, and the United Kingdom’s, biggest drugs traffickers. Under the codename Norman Nice he provided officers at the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) with information on heroin and gave officers valuable insight into the London Turkish criminal community and their involvement in a global network of drugs, arms procurement and people smuggling. One of those he helped bring to justice was Mehmet Ebcin, a reputed powerful figure within the Turkish underworld, who was jailed for 14 years after Operation Ferdinand was set up to disrupt the heroin trade in north London.
Ebcin, alongside Abdurraham Gencer and Murat Ozturk, were each caught in a massive surveillance operation mounted by customs. The three were caught red-handed with £800,000 worth of pure heroin after investigators staked out Ozturk in Central Avenue, Edmonton, north London. All three were charged with one count of being knowingly concerned in carrying, harbouring, keeping, concealing or in any manner dealing with the intention of evading prohibition on or before March 20, 2002. The three were jailed for a combined total of 40 years. By this time, moving back to Hackney in east London, Taner Konakli and Faruk Koroglu who were jailed for importing heroin in 1995 were back on the scene but were soon to be snared again.
Taner Konakli and Faruk Koroglu and two other men were jailed for a total of 36 years in 2004, after they had been caught with wads of cash and high purity heroin worth more than £12million. Customs believed that Taner Konakli and his team were some of the biggest traders of heroin in London. The main men, Konakli and Koroglu, were sitting on a vast stash of 125kg, stored at an address near Hackney’s Kingshold Estate, and were delivering a package of ten kilos to accomplices Errol Williams and Ray Steer when they were all arrested. Judge Christopher Hardy told Ray Steer that he was “at the bottom of the chain, but drug dealers, of course, depend on couriers such as you, taking the risks” while Errol Williams was acting as a minder to Steer.
Faraok Koroglu was accused of being much further up the chain whilst Taner Konakli of Manor House was said by the judge to have been at the top of this particular chain, as he agreed in his interview, and was looking after and distributing, as directed, this particular consignment. Each were jailed for 14 years and 12 years at Southwark Crown Court in December 2004.
Each of these cases considered during the period covering 1994-2004 – excluding that of David Telli – are alleged to be linked to the two main organised groups in north east London, the Tottenham Boys and the Bombacilars.
An over-arching godfather, “reis” or “baba” (Turkish for the godfather or captain) has never been identified within the Tottenham Boys organisation. The Bombacilars, or Bombers, on the other hand are thought to be part of the Baybasin clan, headed by members of the Baybasin family, who as well as being involved in heroin trafficking, have also been linked another common activity of Turkish organised crime – people smuggling.
People Smuggling
What made the people smuggling operation linked to the Baybasin clan in London unique was that among those smuggled were VIP illegal immigrants – relatives of the Baybasins and members of their organisation. Organised by Mensur Hassan, who had previously been sentenced to five years for smuggling 20 immigrants at a time in vans, he began the operation soon after his early release from prison. Hassan claimed he was forced to set up the smuggling business by members of the Baybasin clan after being introduced via members of the Bombacilars whom he had met in Pentonville prison, north London. In 2004 he recruited confidence trickster Wyatt Anderson, who had 92 previous convictions under eight aliases, to use his six-passenger Piper Cherokee plane to ferry illegal immigrants from Europe to quiet airstrips around London.
Members of the gang staked out airstrips well in advance of any flight to make sure the cargo could be quickly dropped off without attracting any attention. They were known to have landed at Southwater near Horsham, West Sussex; Bourn in Cambridgeshire; Little Staughton, Bedfordshire; and Lamberhurst, Kent.
The immigrants were then driven to a café in Green Lanes, north London, where the cash was handed over and they were settled into the Turkish community. During his trial jurors were told that Mensur Hassan was forced to smuggle the immigrants into Britain to pay back a £150,000 debt owed to the Baybasin clan.
Both Hassan and Anderson used defence of duress. Hassan claimed he was told his family would be hurt and his wife raped in front of his eyes if he did not do their bidding. Anderson claimed Hassan had showed him photos of tortured and dead victims and refused to give evidence, relying on claims made by Hassan to back up his defence of duress. He refused to give evidence at the trial and appeared throughout wearing a neck brace and using a crutch to walk. He told police he had been assaulted by two men of Middle Eastern appearance.
The National Crime Squad finally intercepted the smuggling enterprise when gang members collected five immigrants at a grass field in Lamberhurst, Kent. Hassan was later jailed for 10 years for conspiracy to facilitate illegal entry to the UK, while Anderson was jailed for seven years.
The Gangs
At the highest level of the Turkish and Kurdish mafia are clan-based families with roots in the predominantly feudal societies of south east Turkey. These families are known by some as the heroin godfathers, international heroin traffickers at the top of worldwide networks. Heads of these families are scattered across the world, known by the surnames of Polat, Aksoy, Koylan, Yildirim, Kockaya and Baybasin – the latter with a notable presence in London.
In each country and major city across the globe there are Turkish, Turkish Cypriot and Kurdish families with direct contact or access to these clans.
The families which make up the Tottenham Boys and Bombers in north east London for example are rarely spoken about collectively in the British media.
The NCIS and Metropolitan Police have previously estimated there to be around a dozen families operating in north east London. Many of those convicted or involved in crimes linked to the Tottenham Boys and the Bombers often share surnames such as Ates, Arslan, Eren, Armagan, Karakas, Konakli, Guven, Kitay, Canturk/Janturk and so on. But that is not to say that everyone with those names is a criminal.
Where heroin trafficking is concerned, those involved in criminal activity for groups such as the Tottenham Boys and the Bombers are responsible for regional distribution within the UK and Ireland and have been for many years. In August 1995 Yilmaz Kaya and Suleyman Ergun from London were observed by customs travelling frequently to Liverpool where they supplied infamous Merseyside traffickers such as John Haase and Paul Bennett with heroin. The four aforementioned were each jailed for up to 20 years for running a £15m heroin racket. In 2001 Erdinc Uckach from Stoke Newington, described as a senior figure at the London end, was tried in relation to a 27kg shipment of heroin which was destined for drug markets in Leeds and Birmingham, whilst a shipment around the same time recovered by the Irish Gardai had originated from a Turkish family in London.
The seized heroin was destined for the districts of Crumlin and Drimnagh in Dublin whereby a local feud between drug gangs had claimed 18 lives between 2000 and 2012. According to intelligence recieved by the Guardia Civil in Spain, Irish criminals Patrick Doyle and Frederick Thompson, from Crumlin, while in the Costa Del Sol had been warned by Turkish criminals that they would be murdered if they did not pay outstanding bills for a number of heroin shipments. The pair had been introduced to a Turkish family from London who had been supplying them with heroin imported from Afghanistan. Doyle was killed early shortly after the threat in 2008 whilst sat in his BMW X5 in Spain, ambushed by gunmen who fired over two dozen shots into his body from a machine pistol.
The most infamous family leading the way in the United Kingdom has been the Baybasin Clan, headed by heroin “Emperor” and long time Turkish baba Huseyin Baybasin, later replaced by his brother Abdullah Baybasin.
Frequently linked to the Baybasin clan in London have been the Kurdish Bulldogs from Wood Green, north London; and the Bombacilars (or Bombers) from Hackney, east London, who rival the Tottenham Boys.
While these three allegiances contain different families, at the bottom entry level where young men and teenagers have previously made their mark are the street gangs from which they are recruited. Street gangs within the Turkish and Kurdish community of north east London were once known under a variety of names such as the Rowdy Kurdz, Mad Turks, Snooker Boys, MIT.
Baybasin clan – The Emperor
In 1995 Interpol issues a warrant for the arrest of Huseyin Baybasin at the request of the Republic of Turkey.
huseyinIt followed extensive interviews in which Huseyin had told the Turkish media the Turkish state at its highest level was actively involved in the trafficking of drugs and the murder of political opponents. He claimed high-ranking officials, including Turkish consulates abroad, were involved in organised crime. The Turkish state rubbished his claims but suspicions of a “deep state” were almost confirmed a year later when a car crashed in the town of Sursurluk. Inside the vehicle there was a senior chief of police, a prominent politician and a wanted assassin with a history of involvement in organised crime. The crash revealed the telling associations between state officials and organised criminals in Turkey. http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/3213126/
Huseyin Baybasin was born in June 1956 in south east Turkey in the settlement of Lice. Lice is a Kurdish area and is also the birthplace of the PKK, it also happens to fall within the smuggling province of Diyarbakir, one of the least developed areas of Turkey. Huseyin was from a large family of which many members were known to police. In one clash with police, over smuggling issues, the brother of Huseyin was killed and his uncle was seriously wounded. His early smuggling and contraband career began with selling roses and paprikas to the wealthier residents; he eventually went on to become a street trader in his spare time after school. Although his sales at this time were not illegal items, they had come from neighbouring Syria, and bringing in items across the border was prohibited.
Leaving home at the age of 17, Huseyin moved to Istanbul where he began work in the cigarette smuggling industry. The cigarette industry was almost entirely under the control of organised criminals in Turkey. He began to diversify and ventured into a range of different products which earned him the nickname Spider, because he had a hand in everything. During an interview, with criminologists Frank Bovenkerk and Yucel Yesilgoz, Huseyin said that he and his associates were aided in their activities by corrupt police and government officials – the headquarters of many dealings was the Marmara cafe, Istanbul.
Huseyin eventually landed up in a military prison in Edirne, which sits on the main route to Europe close to the border with Bulgaria. While here in 1977 he first learned about heroin smuggling to Germany. After being released from prison, Huseyin and his friends set up a travel agency in 1981 with a 28 coach fleet. This was no ordinary travel agency, it was a front to disguise the transportation of heroin into Belgium, Germany, Holland and the UK.
While building his network throughout Europe Huseyin began to identify more as a Kurd, his understandings of politics increased and he started to support financially the struggle of the Kurdish people.
Before Huseyin Baybasin became infamously known as the Emperor, he had spent five years in an English prison under the false name of Nejdet Yilmaz. Whilst in prison in England he was visited by Turkish authorities, aware of his true identity, who negotiated his release in exchange for a British convict who was being held in Turkey.
Europe’s answer to Pablo Escobar, he became to heroin what the Colombian was to cocaine. In 1992 one of Huseyin’s shipments, a 3,000kg base of morphine was lost when a ship called the Kismetin 1 sank in the Mediterranean.
Eventually, almost 10 years later and after much heroin trafficking, the Emperor was jailed for life in Holland in July 2002. By this time his family had established themselves and their base in London, with several key figures within the Baybasin clan including his brothers Sirin, Mehmet and Abdullah moving into the leafy suburb of Barnet in north London.
While in London the Baybasins began to cultivate a property empire, including several residential mansions around Edgware, car sales businesses and even a retirement home for policemen in Hove, Sussex. Further to this he owned hotels in Istanbul and a factory in his hometown of Lice.
Huseyin eventually agreed to tell customs investigators what he knew about the involvement of senior Turkish politicians and officials in the international heroin trade. Subsequently his family were encouraged, and even aided in their travel, by customs to come to the UK. A deal brokered between Huseyin Baybasin and Customs and Excise was disclosed during the trial of his brother Abdullah in 2004.
Kurdish Bulldogs
Kurdish Bulldogs was the name of an organisation which fell under the control of the Baybasin clan. They are located around Green Lanes in Harringay, north London. In 2002 violence flared between the Kurdish Bulldogs and supporters of the PKK (restyled as Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress, KADEK) in Green Lanes. Known as The Battle of Green Lanes, it was thought that business owners were unhappy at paying revolutionary taxes, which were simply lining the pockets of the Baybasin clan.
Following the battle, which involved over 40 people and left three men with gunshot wounds, a Turkish- and Kurdish-speaking police taskforce was assigned to monitor criminal activity in the area. In the typical public reassurance display of strength 500 police officers carried out a series of co-ordinated raids in Green Lanes a couple of months later.
The police activity in January 2003 raided 15 addresses including homes, businesses, gambling dens, cafes and a fruit stall, all of which were linked to the Baybasin clan.
Various media reports quoting police detectives described the Baybasin clan as one of the biggest organised crime groups in Britain, and as the kingpins of the international heroin trafficking trade.
Guns, drugs and £13,000 were recovered from one address, while two members of the Baybasins were arrested at a£1m family home in tree-lined Dukes Avenue, Edgware.
Simultaneously at a cafe in Wood Green police entered an illegal gambling den where they were attacked by a man brandishing a two-foot metal kebab skewer. At the cafe a taser gun, cocaine, and £3,000 concealed inside a pool table were recovered. During the three month operation, codenamed Narita, there were a total of 300 arrests.
One of the most disturbing finds of Operation Narita’s successor operation, Operation Tiller, was a torture chamber located in a scruffy bedsit off Green Lanes and protected by a heavily fortified front door.
It was so well protected that officers had to cut a hole through the wall in order break down the two metal gates and smash the windows to gain entry. Detectives were of the belief that the address was used by enforcers to discipline local businessmen who refused to pay protection money but more commonly to settle drug debts.
In one room there were two large metal hooks fixed to the ceiling, lengths of thick electric cable were used to suspend victims from them. In a nearby flat police found machetes, loaded handguns, drugs, counterfeit money and equipment that was used for forging passports. The current status of the Kurdish Bulldogs is unknown, but they are believed to have been superceded by the Bombers.
Bombers/Bombacilar
Bombacilar translates from Turkish to English as Bombers. The Bombacilar are located throughout north east London, although most commonly found within the London Borough of Hackney.
This faction of the Baybasin clan is said to have acquired a reputation for their ruthlessness as enforcers and intimidators of the Kurdish community in north east London, largely through extortion and protection rackets. The extent of revolutionary taxing is largely unknown in London, reports to authorities are rare and certainly few and far between reach the courts. More commonly people smuggling, drug trafficking and serious violence are the most reported activities of the Bombacilar.
Following the imprisonment of Huseyin Baybasin and after the Battle of Green Lanes, Abdullah Baybasin, with the Bombacilar as his workforce, took over his brothers heroin empire. Nicknamed Apo – Uncle – which is also an alias of Abdullah Ocalan who founded the PKK, he went on to head drugs, smuggling and extortion activities from his wheelchair (Abdullah Baybasin was left disabled after being hit by a bullet in a gunfight during a drug deal gone wrong in Amsterdam in the 1990s).
Abdullah Baybasin controlled the organisation from the rear of a shop in Harringay which he would visit twice a week to give orders. A surveillance operation by the National Crime Squad managed to bug the shop with a camera and microphones in order to record discussions between Abdullah and his subordinates.
Footage also captured the moment when an errant member of the gang was stripped, beaten and threatened with the removal of his penis by machete. A host of criminal conspiracies were recorded, they included plans for petrol-bomb attacks on shops that would not pay protection. Unbeknown to law enforcement investigators, Customs and Excise were actively helping members of the Baybasin family enter Britain because he and his brother Huseyin had cooperated with them.
Viewers of the recorded footage likened the tapes to watching scenes from the Godfather movie. One spectator commented that people were clearly in awe of Abdullah and would enter the room of the cafe, kiss his hand, and then retreat as he spoke in a whisper to one of his aides.
In 2003 three members of the Bombacilar, acting on behalf of Baybasin, were charged with bringing 200kg worth of heroin, with an estimated street value of £20m, into the UK.
Arrests were made after customs officers, joined by colleagues from the Flying Squad and CO19, discovered the drugs at a warehouse in east London. The heroin was hidden within a consignment of clothing which had been imported from Germany.
Those arrested were from the Kingsmead estate in Hackney and Green Lanes in Harringay. A further operation a year later set up by police to tackle the Bombacilar, known as Operation Lacoste, involved 400 police officers. A series of coordinated raids on suspected dealing premises, including cafes, shops and a snooker hall, led to 15 arrests. The two part operation intercepted 50 stun guns and 38 imitation firearms, as well as seizing quantities of heroin and cannabis.
By 2006 the surveillance had paid off. Abdullah Baybasin conceded to submitting a guilty plea for extortion at Woolwich Crown Court whereby the judge told seven members of his gang, who were jailed for between five and seven years, that they were part of “an extortion racket, a mafia like operation, run by Abdullah Baybasin. It was a racket run against your countrymen, Kurds and Turks, experiencing their terrified helplessness in the face of this organised gang”.
Despite being found guilty in the trial Abudullah was accepted as a genuine refugee and granted political asylum in the UK, accepting that his own life was under threat back home as a result of his supergrass brother Huseyin naming corrupt Turkish politicians.
Evidence and surveillance revealed how the Bombacilars exploited the businesses of their countrymen, taking fees or a percentage from debts collected in respect of the sale or lease of property or from money lent by the leader of the gang.
Each defendant pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit blackmail, one count of conspiracy to commit arson and others pleaded guilty to various counts of wounding with intent, possession of firearms and possession with intent to supply drugs.
Those found guilty or brought to trial included Rifat Dincer, Erdal Ozmen, Irfan Comooglu, Engin Gundiz, Etem Gezen, Mehmet Aziz Karatas, Sait Yuzen, Ibrahim Kadir Aslan, Sinan Batall Gul, Abdullah Baybasin and Ruknettin Basbaydar.
Baybasin was referred to as the leader of the Bombacilars and Basbaydar was second in command. It was no secret that Abdullah was in charge, he featured in an episode of Ross Kemp On Gangs and openly bragged of involvement in the heroin trade. It was established that Yusen and Karatas were fairly senior whilst Comooglu, Gezen and Gul were high ranking enforcers.
Following in his brother’s footsteps, it was alleged that Abdullah Baybasin informed on other traffickers linked to his organisation, including Recep Yilmaz and David Powell.
At his trial it was said David Powell – known as the “Transport Guy” – used his legitimate freight business to move huge shipments of heroin across the English Channel for profits of £100,000 per week. The prosecution applied for the trial to be held without a jury over fears that they could be vulnerable to intimidation or bribery.
Recep Yilmaz pleaded guilty to four counts of conspiracy to supply class A drugs and was jailed for 18 years. David Powell was jailed for 17 years in 2008 having been convicted of conspiracy to supply class A drugs, having already served four years and 300 days in custody from a trial dating back to 2004.
Police had bugged the luxury fleet of cars of Recep Yilmaz. Yilmaz owned a legitimate car showroom business on Wood Green High Road, Eaglespeed. A shootout took place here in 2001 after Albanian criminals were believed to have been trying to muscle in on the heroin trade. At the scene police recovered a .45 Magnum, complete with hollowed out bullets, and 31 spent cartridges.
Some people believe that the Tottenham Boys are allied with the Albanian mafia in north London and enemies of the Bombacilars and Baybasin clan, although this is not confirmed.
Since at least 2003 the Bombacilar have been engaged in a tit-for-tat war with the Tottenham Boys, this has involved a handful of families on each side of the two organisations.
During the feud between the Bombacilar and the Tottenham Boys there have been a number of murders, some of which have been carried out, or have involved, members of local street gangs.
Within both Hackney and Haringey there are a number of street gangs, some of which have been involved in the mid-lower level distribution of heroin which has been trafficked by organised Turkish criminals.
Street gangs in Hackney which have had individuals positively confirmed as being in association with the Bombacilars include A-Road (Amhurst Road); Kingshold/KOB; Lordship/LORD; Manor House Boys; and Soldiers of Shakespeare.
Tottenham Boys
The Tottenham Boys are a Turkish organised crime group who are situated throughout north east London, including Tottenham, Edmonton, Enfield, Islington and Walthamstow.
The organisation is believed to be made up of different families at the highest levels, whilst in the past there have been street based groups which aided with the recruitment of proven members outside of the main families.
These youth wings were once known by names such as Angry Turks, Istanbul Youth, Selby, Snooker Boys, Tottenham Turks, White Hart Lane Turks and so on. It is unknown whether or not the youth wings still have recognisable names; however, they are still present in numerous areas of Enfield and Haringey in particular.
Whilst the organised crime group has been active since the 1990s, it was not until 2002 that it was officially recognised in the media when a Kurdish community leader told reporters that there were three main groups in north east London: “They are the Bombacilars gang from Hackney, with about 120 members; the Tottenham Boys, from Tottenham, with around 70 members; and the Kurdish Bulldogs, with about 60 to 70 members, from Wood Green.”
In common with the Bombacilar, the Tottenham Boys have been involved in the heroin trade and later cannabis, however, there is little available reliable information to suggest that they are involved in revolutionary taxing like their rivals.
Drugs appear to be their main trade as well as robbery and taxing. In 2005 armed police raided the believed headquarters of the Tottenham Boys, a cafe in Hornsey Road, Islington, north London. The raid was part of Operation Berryville.
Operation Berryville was a four-week investigation focusing on a string of violent armed robberies committed by members of the Tottenham Boys. At least 15 armed robberies had been reported to police whereby members of the gang brandished handguns and swords as they targeted snooker halls, internet cafes and brothels. It was not the first time members of the organisation had been arrested, but previous prosecutions of the men had failed because of witness intimidation. Police said that the activities of the Tottenham Boys spread as far as northern Turkey and Cyprus and that they considered themselves as “untouchable”. While guns, drugs and ammunition were seized at the cafe prosecutions again failed.
Since at least 2003 the Tottenham Boys have been in rivalry with the Bombacilar, engaging in tit-for-tat violence which has resulted in a number of shootings and homicides in north east London. This has occurred in cycles with peaks in violence notable in 2007, 2009 and 2012-13. During this period the gang has continued to be involved in the drugs trade, violence and intimidation for financial gain and firearms. One case relating to the distribution of cannabis in east London saw five members, or associates, of the Tottenham Boys brought to trial for the conspiracy. They were Rudi Silveira, Kaan Erdogan, Izzet Eren, Bayram Eren and Ozcan Eren.
The conspiracy ran over a 10 month period in 2009-10 when Izzet and Ozcan leased two shop premises, the E17 Club in St James Street, Walthamstow, and the Istanbul Social Club in Gants Hill. These were fronts for retail premises from which cannabis was sold, complete with CCTV, steel doors and hatches for protection. Cannabis was sold to the public from these premises seven days a week, 12 hours a day. Each shop was calculated to have earned £12,000 per week (£1.3m per annum).
The judge accepted that Izzet Eren was the head of the conspiracy and Ozcan Eren was his right hand man. A search warrant was executed at the E17 Club in August 2009 and 206 sealed bags of cannabis containing 276grams of skunk cannabis were found. The Erens accepted they were the leaseholders but denied all knowledge of the drugs and was bailed.
Eight days later a second search was conducted at the premise. A car park outside the club was found to have 51 bags of cannabis wedged into its wheel arch. Three days later Izzet’s home address was searched and £27,930 in cash was found, displaying traces of THC – the active ingredient of cannabis. At the Istanbul Social Club, undercover officers bought cannabis on a number of occasions.
During one period of surveillance, of 6 hours, 84 people were observed entering and leaving the club after a very short length of time. In November 2009 Izzet Eren, the leaseholder, was in prison on unrelated matters and Ozcan Eren returned from a trip to Turkey to carry on running the two premises. A further search of a flat in Walthamstow uncovered 1.7kg of cannabis with Ozcan and Bayram Eren’s fingerprints.
Each person in the conspiracy was sentenced to between 2 and 8 years in July 2010. Appeals to have their sentences reduced were refused in February 2012 before Lord Justice Richards.
In 2010 and 2011 three members, or associates, of the Tottenham Boys were handed Anti-Social Behaviour Orders granted by Haringey Magistrates. The first was granted against Kemal Eren who was hit with the wide ranging ASBO which linked him to possession of cannabis, public disorder, and attempted arson. He was banned from associating with 17 named people, from threatening or intimidating people, and from entering a designated area of Tottenham. Kemal Eren, sometimes known by the nickname Parmaksiz (No Fingers), was described as a prominent gang figure in north London, even referred to as a gang leader.
An associate of Kemal Eren, also described as an active and influential gang member, was also banned from most of Tottenham including every William Hill betting shop in the London Borough of Haringey. Police told magistrates that Omar Murat was a key member of a gang involved in drugs and violence. A similar ASBO to that of Kemal, his order stops him associating with 19 named people and from entering parts of Tottenham. The interim ASBO had already been breached by Murat when he was caught with someone he had been banned associating with.
Street Gangs
Longstanding street gangs in north east London have become increasingly involved with the Turkish and Kurdish organised crime groups. Organised crime groups such as the Bombacilar and Tottenham Boys have continually distanced themselves from the output of drugs at the lowest levels of the drug market – the exception being younger future recruits of the organisations, who increasingly are British born second and third generation and have grown up amongst the street gangs, who act as middle men. One of those alleged middle men was Erkan Konakli, known affectionately as Erks. In 2003 he was shot in the back after being lured to a flat used by suspected heroin dealer known as Sugar.
It was said that Sugar, who had links to the Soldiers of Shakespeare gang, had owed hundreds of pounds in drug money to Erkan Konakli. Other links between the Bombacilar in Hackney to street gangs have been confirmed with A-Road (Amhurst Road), Kingshold/KOB, Lordship/LORD, Manor House Boys and the aforementioned Soldiers of Shakespeare.
In north London, the Tottenham Boys have had established links with a succession of street gangs including the Tottenham Mandem/TMD, Broadwater Farm/BWF, Ida and Northumberland Park/NPK.
Members of Tottenham street gangs have been used or involved in high profile murder cases involving Turkish victims, including the killing of Gulistan Subasi in Clapton. In 2001 members of the TMD were brought to trial for their alleged involvement in the murder of Turkish drug dealer Oguzhin Ozdemir.
Oguzhin was kidnapped off the street after he claimed that he had lost heroin he received and could not refund the cash. His body was discovered on a north London riverbank with two bullets in his back and two in the back of his head. Four members of the TMD, including a figure called Stitcher who has close connections with the Tottenham Boys, admitted to kidnapping in July 2001, but no evidence was offered for the charge of murder.
CCTV cameras picked up Oguzhin’s BMW being driven to Walthamstow where it was dumped, a TMD member known as Mouse was convicted also in July 2001 for perverting the course of justice after setting fire to the vehicle.
Bridging the gap between the street gangs and organised crime are the likes of Ozgur Ozdemir. Ozgur, alleged to be a member of the A-Road gang, from Amhurst Road, was involved in a Wild-West-style shootout with rivals linked to another group called the Holly Street Boys.
Ozgur, riding pillion on a motorbike, opened fire on Sina Naroei, who returned shots at the scene in busy Kingsland Road in April 2010. Naroei was not hit, but another Holly Street boy was hit in the leg.
A few months later Ozgur was seriously injured after being blasted with a shotgun. Whilst both men were jailed indefinitely for their parts, Ozgur continued to run a major trafficking operation from behind bars. Ozgur ordered his lieutenants, brother Sefer Ozdemir and Cantekin Yilmaz, to obtain large quantities of class A drugs in east London.
In what is a common practice by urban street gangs involved in the drugs trade, the A-Road gang established ‘country lines’ – whereby markets are served in smaller peripheral towns and cities outside of London. London street gangs have established street dealing networks in numerous towns and cities across England, most predominantly East Anglia and the south coast.
Ozgur was arranging for drugs to be distributed to Hastings and Eastbourne in Sussex by phone from Pentonville prison in north London, Highpoint jail in Suffolk and HMP Onley in Warwickshire. Ozgur and Sefer Ozdemir and Cantekin Yilmaz were all sentenced in February 2013.
Feuds
Since the turn of the millennium there have been a number of violent feuds within the Turkish underworld of north east London, claiming the lives of at least 10 people and resulting in over 100 shooting incidents with over 30 recorded as occurring between the Bombacilar and Tottenham Boys in 2009 alone.
Over a 12 month period beginning in May 2000 there were three killings in Hackney. On May 25, 2000, Mehmet Adiguzel drove from his Waltham Abbey home to Clapton in east London. As he sat in a traffic jam in Brooke Road a masked gunman approached his vehicle and emptied six shots from a .38 revolver into his neck and face.
Prior to his death Adiguzel had alleged to have be involved in drug dealing, he was also described as a gambler who had been ‘down on his luck’. Furthermore, Adiguzel was a registered police informant.
On the day of his death he had been gambling at a café on Clarence Road. Main suspect Murat Over admitted shooting Adiguzel to his girlfriend three weeks later.
Over had previous convictions for witness intimidation and by the time of his trial he had been convicted of conspiracy to supply heroin. Murat Over was jailed for life, a clear motive was never established, however, it was widely reported that the row was over drugs territory. Less than a year later Hasan Mamali and his friend Sama Mustafa were both shot dead in Balmes Road. Whilst no motive has ever been put forward and the deaths remain unsolved, detectives believed that the pair were linked to the heroin trade.
While murder was the case in Hackney, a number of firearms incidents were also beginning to occur in neighbouring Haringey. In one case it was police officers who were fortunate not to have been on the receiving end. During the rush hour on Tottenham High Road police swooped on a vehicle containing three suspects and began a hard stop. The officers smashed the vehicles windows as they attempted to apprehend the wanted men.
The men inside ignored the police commands before Alirezar Bozadogan, who was sat in the front passenger seat, pulled out a gun and pointed it directly at an officer. He then proceeded to pull the trigger. Recognising the explosion of a gunshot, the officer and his colleagues dived for cover. No-one was injured and Bozadogan was allowed to walk away for a short-lived period of freedom.
A similar incident followed a few months later when police were threatened with a semi-automatic weapon and in July 2002 20 shots were fired close to Wood Green police station during a shootout. Police officers rushed to the scene where they recovered three firearms including a .45 Magnum.
Battle of Green Lanes
In the run up to the battle for Green Lanes the owner of the Dostlar Lokali, an eatery on Green Lanes, north London, had lost large amounts of money from gambling and had closed down the premise whilst he tried to find someone to take over the business.
Having refused an offer from his business partner, he instead accepted an offer of £25,000 from a member of the Baybasin family. In a twist of events the owner was then kidnapped on November 6, 2002, falsely imprisoned by his business partner unhappy at the Baybasin deal.
Then three days later members of the Baybasin street workforce, the Bombacilar, carried out an attack on the Shammas Abbas grocery store.
dostlarbbcThe Bombacilar were intimidating and extorting business owners on this stretch of Green Lanes for some time, or as described later running a protection racket with force.
This had been causing friction between the Bombacilar and the business owners, many who were PKK/KADEK loyalists. The acquisition of the Dostlar Lokali by the Baybasin Clan was not well received by many of those who worked in Green Lanes.
A throng of local businessmen and PKK loyalists decided to take matters into their own hands, and forming a 100-strong mob they ventured to the Dostlar Lokali.
Among the mob were Hassan Yavus and his son Veysel. They were irate that their relatives store had been attacked by the Bombacilar earlier that day.
The Yavus’ along with the rest of the mob rampaged through the Dostlar Lokali, smashing their way into the premise wielding kebab knives, sticks and polies. As the first wave of the mob smashed windows younger members of the Bombacilar fled.
One of the men present in the cafe was 43-year-old Alisan Dogan. He came to Britain in 1991, with his wife of 23-years, and his two children. On the day of his death he took his severely handicapped son to a local respite centre and spent the rest of the afternoon in the company of his family and friends.
He received a call about 1pm asking him to come and clean the carpets at the Doskar Lokali. He reluctantly accepted the job. While some of the men managed to fight their way free, Alisan Dogan was not so lucky, he suffered a wound from which he bled to death. Dogan had nothing to do with the feuding groups.
Veysel Yavus’ fingerprints were found on a knife stained with the blood of the dead man nearby and was later charged with murder. Veysel, a chef, said he would often carry knives when delivering food to the Dostlar Lokali, which doubled as a late night gambling den. He insisted that he had nothing to do with the killing and he was cleared of all charges.
He told the court: “The Baybasin are into drugs and guns and all that. They are a mafia family. The Bombacilar are another group who want to be the mafia. The Baybasins have a reputation for violence. Everyone is scared of them in the community. People are scared they might get shot and for their families and what might happen to them. I would not go up against them if I had trouble with them. I was beaten up by the Bombacilar but did not tell the police because I was scared for my business and my family.”
During the rampage a Kurdish man called Serdar Ozbek was accused of taking part in a firefight in which three men were shot. He denied three counts of attempted murder.
A number of years later Serdar Ozbek was cleared of ordering the murder of Gulistan Subasi, his ex-girlfriend. Guilstan Subasi was shot dead by 15-year-old hitman Santre Sanchez Gayle, a member of the Kensal Green Bloods gang in north west London, in March 2010. He had been recruited by middle men who were said to be linked to one of the north east London organised crime groups.
Bombacilar versus Tottenham Boys
The earliest recorded incidents of violence involving the Bombacilar and the Tottenham Boys dates back to September 2003. Bombacilar enforcer Etem Gezen was involved in a raid on a Turkish social club in north London. He discharged a firearm two or three times into the ceiling.
The purpose of the raid was to cause grievous bodily harm to those in the club. During this incident one man had his finger chopped off and another was treated for gunshot wounds. The following month on October 2, 2003 an attack was made in the vicinity of a petrol station in North London, in the course of which a large number of shots were fired.
Halil Ates was targeted and injured by members of the Bombacilars, including Erdal Ozmen and Kadir Aslan who were recognised at the scene. The following evening a further attack was planned against an off-licence owned by the parents of Haili Ates. Three members of the Bombacilars had gone to attack the premise with a petrol bomb although for reasons unknown they did not carry out the attack.
A few months after the shooting a pre-arranged meeting took place between members of the two gangs at Lidl car park in Edmonton, north London.
During the meet the conversation became heated and men in a silver Mercedes fired shots at rivals who were sat in a blue Vauxhall Vectra. The vehicle was later found abandoned in Lincoln Road, Ponders End, Enfield.
For whatever reason this particular feud did not escalate, perhaps it was the sheer number of arrests during targeted work police against the Baybasin’s, Bombacilars and Tottenham Boys throughout 2004 and 2005, although it was not until early in 2006 that many of those involved were sentenced.
Over a dozen members of the Baybasin clan and associated Bombacilar were jailed early in 2006, including the aforementioned Erdal Ozmen and Etem Gezen.
A renewed bout of violence between the Tottenham Boys and the Bombacilars however was already underway at this point. On January 1, 2006, Gurkan Kan, a DJ working at Eyes Bar in Hackney, along with Zeynel Tasdelen and Yilmaz Tasdelen were all attacked for refusing entry to a group of eight men. Gurkan Kan was stabbed with a dagger.
The victims had friends and associates who are part of the Tottenham Boys organisation, whilst the suspects were alleged to be part of the Bombacilar. One of those alleged to have been part of the eight man gang refused entry was Erdal Armagan, the motive for the attack was punishment for being barred from the New Years Eve party.
Erdal Armagan denied the attempted murder of Kan, who had to be resuscitated by paramedics at the scene, and also denied an alternative count of wounding with intent to cause GBH. He walked free from court after the judge directed the jury to find him not guilty of both charges. He agreed with Armagan’s lawyers that there was no case to answer due to insufficient evidence.
A few months later a Turkish gang member was dragged from his car by police officers after trying to pull a loaded gun on them in Hackney, east London. Incidents again went quiet throughout 2007 and 2008, during this time London saw an unprecedented spike in teenage homicides.
Early in 2009 rivalry tension arose again between the Tottenham Boys and Bombacilar. An interpersonal dispute began with Kemal Armagan, a Bombacilar, and Mehmet Senpalit, a Tottenham Boy, in January 2009 at the Manor Club in Finsbury Park, north London.
A large fight occurred during which bottles were used, punches thrown and Kemal Armagan was the principal victim.
He was badly injured, angry and worse still publicly humiliated. He threatened to kill those who attacked him blaming the Tottenham Boys, and in particular Mehmet Senpalit. He refused to answer questions posed by the police, implying that he would sort things out himself.
Shortly after the incident at the Manor Club incident it was alleged that members of the Bombacilar terrorised a mini-cab office in north London which was under control of the Tottenham Boys, firing shots and robbing the staff.
It continued when another shooting took place in Clapton directed against Armagan family interests. Shortly after this shooting, Kemal Armagan was believed to have started to organise his revenge, and made telephone contact with Michael James. James was a small time lone criminal who had previously dealt cannabis on behalf of Kemal.
Before the revenge plan materialised there were more tit-for-tat incidents. The Bombacilar made an attack on a social club in Thane Villas, Holloway – a venue attended by the Tottenham Boys.
Then on February 21, members of the Tottenham Boys tried to burn down a Bombacilar haunt called the Mosaic Club. On March 8, Kemal Armagan’s brother Ali was shot and injured, along with fellow Bombacilar Kenan Aydogdu. Finally at 10:40pm on March 22, 2009, 50-year-old Ahmet Paytak received a fatal gunshot wound to the stomach at Euro Food and Wines in Hornsey Road, Holloway, north London.
The two-man hit team were at Euro Food and Wines to kill Mehmet Senpalit, who it was thought owned the shop, however, at the time of the shooting innocent Ahmet Paytak and his son were just getting ready to close for the night. As they were doing so a motorcycle pulled up onto the pavement, the pillion passenger, armed with a handgun, got off and first shot Ahmet Paytak, who was standing near the doorway. He then approached the doorway before firing further shots into the leg of Huseyin Paytak. Climbing back onto the motorcycle the shooter and rider sped off through a red traffic light as it fled down Seven Sisters Road.
The bike used was a red and black Benelli TNT 1130cc, of which there are only 112 registered in the United Kingdom of which eight were in London. The bike had been stolen from Camden on October 31, 2008, and was later recovered from the River Lea near South Tottenham. Michael James was arrested the following July after being linked to the bike.
He later admitted to being the driver, but claimed that he thought they were going to the premise to steal drugs and had no idea his passenger was armed. James was jailed for at least 30 years in November 2010. Ricardo Dwyer, the alleged gunman, was on trial for murder at the Old Bailey but jurors were unable to reach a verdict following deliberations spanning three days. In April 2013 the prosecution applied for a retrial.
Further shootings followed in the following months across north east London at Bulwer Road (Edmonton), Tariff Road (Tottenham), Seven Sisters Road (Finsbury), Bury Street (Edmonton), Green Street (Enfield), High Road (Tottenham), Lansdowne Road (Tottenham), Printon Mews (Redbridge) and Forest Road (Walthamstow).
One person in particular, Yusuf Arslan of the Tottenham Boys was becoming increasingly erratic, involved in several high profile incidents. Yusuf Arslan had twice previously been a victim of shootings in August 2007 and July 2009 at the Pound Shop in Tottenham.
On neither occasion did he want the police involved. In August 2009 a further shooting took place at the Pound Shop in Tottenham and the following month a friend of Yusuf Arslan, Izzet Eren, was shot. The Pound Shop in Tottenham was alleged to be a base for the Tottenham Boys.
By September 2009 Yusuf Arslan was in possession of an Agram sub machine gun and two days after his friend Izzet Eren was shot the Agram was discharged in Tottenham.
Nasir Demir and his friend Hamit Coban were driving a white rental van in Tottenham’s Lansdowne Road towards the High Road, when Arslan in a silver vehicle was travelling in the opposite direction. The car pulled in front of the van causing it to stop suddenly before Yusuf Arslan exited and fired four shots into the van. A fragment of one bullet was left in Demir’s arm.
Shell cases from the Agram were found at the scene, although the circumstances surrounding this particular shooting are unclear, although Arslan appealed that he was motivated by revenge for his friend Izzet Eren. The victims reported the incident to police at Stamford Hill.
On October 3, 2009, Oktay Erbasli was with his girlfriend and stepson when he was gunned down by a man on a high-powered motorbike as he sat at traffic lights in Tottenham, north London. Also present was his good friend Izzet Eren. Erbasli ran Tottenham’s Pound Shop and is thought to have been a member of the Tottenham Boys. It has been speculated that his killers were from the rival Bombacilars, with police believing that it was one in a series of shootings which had taken place throughout 2009. The killing currently remains unsolved. Two days later another young man was gunned down at a Turkish social club in Upper Clapton Road, east London.
Cem Duzgun was killed after being gunned down with a machine pistol outside the Clapton FC Club in east London. It has been speculated that the killing was perpetrated by a member of the Tottenham Boys, and other affiliated street gangs from the area, as a reprisal for the murder of Oktay Erbasli. Duzgun was not believed to be a gang member. Four alleged killers appeared at the Old Bailey on March 4, 2013, and will next appear for a case management hearing on June 6.
On December 8, 2009, at 11:38pm a cab driver attended an address in N18 for a fare to Tottenham High Road. Three males got in and directed the driver to take them to various locations, eventually going to a massage parlour in Hoe Street, Walthamstow, east London. He waited for them for twenty minutes and then was directed to take them to The Avenue in Tottenham.
Armed police had been following the car and a decision was made to stop the vehicle on Ferry Lane, the same location whereby armed police stopped Mark Duggan who was also travelling in a mini cab. A male in the front passenger seat threw a black bag over a large wooden fence, it was recovered and found to contain a modified Brocock revolver handgun loaded with live rounds. One of the occupants was Yusuf Arslan who was wearing body armour.
Arslan was later convicted of attempted murder and firearms offences. His behaviour was motivated by the shooting of his friend Izzet Eren and the murder of another friend, Oktay Erbasli. Yusuf Arslan told the prosecution that at the end of the day, he knew who had killed his friend, but did not known which one of the Bombacilar it was.
Following a significant amount of interest in the Tottenham Boys and Bombacilar feud throughout the media, and of course within law enforcement, the situation began to stabilise. Police briefly began deploying armed officers at checkpoints in north east London. Staffed with marksmen and automatic number plate recognition cameras, the points were to deter known criminals with guns moving through the area. Throughout 2010 and 2011 there was again a break period, just like there had been in 2004/05 and 2007/08. During these break period’s members of the gangs are busily involved in their core activities, namely the distribution and control of drugs, whether this be on a major or micro scale – from class A importation, down to cannabis cultivation and the establishment of country lines.
One alleged member of the Tottenham Boys had allegedly ventured into cannabis cultivation during 2010. He and two others were linked to the discovery of a cannabis factory at an address in Frome, Somerset.
Less than 12 months later Ali Armagan was murdered on Turnpike Lane in north London.
Ali Armagan was shot dead whilst sat in his Audi A8 in Turnpike Lane, he was hit by a bullet in the neck and bled to death at the scene at around 3:30pm on February 1,2012. Youngis Sagir and Ozan Toprak were charged with murder, and the attempted murder of the passenger. Also brought to trial were Suleyman Tonbul, his son Hasan Tonbul and Mehmet Senel. Kemal Eren, a leading figure within the Tottenham Boys, was suspected of plotting the murder of Armagan who was alleged to be the head of the Bombacilar.
The Tonbuls and Senel were alleged to have tipped off Kemal Eren as to the whereabouts of Ali Armagan on the day of the killing, just 51 minutes later he was shot and left for dead. The trio were initially charged with murder but prosecutors accepted pleas to a lesser charge of conspiracy to cause GBH. It was alleged that Yunis Sagir, Ozan Toprak and Kemal Eren were part of a masked hit squad that carried out the killing. Before the trial, Kemal Eren fled to Turkey where he was shot in attempted assassination and remains in a critical condition.
In March 2013 Sagir and Toprak were cleared of murder.
A renewed bout of violence began in April 2013 when Zafer Eren, alleged to be a leading figure within the Tottenham Boys, was ambushed and shot dead as he walked out of his gated home in Fontaine Court, Southgate, north London.
In a related shooting, a 20-year-old man was shot in a park in South Tottenham. Tottenham MP David Lammy said: “I am worried about what appears to be a serious resurgence of Turkish/Kurdish organised crime in London with the shootings in the last few weeks. This raises fears in the community of whom the vast majority are law abiding.”
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The Winter Hill Gang led by James “Whitey” Bulger. He was jailed for life in November 2013. His victims: http://www.boston.com/news/specials/2013/01/07/the-alleged-victims-james-whitey-bulger/lr8fhsjLTFEoqBBCBrWGNI/story.html?pg=2
La Cosa Nostra:
Genovese family | Vincent “The Chin” Gigante | New York City | Drugs, extortion, | Jailed in 1997(despite | |
(run by Lucky Luciano | boss, 70 | loan-sharking, | claiming to be insane) | ||
in 1940s and 1950s) | aka The Pyjama King | pornography, labor union racketeering, restaurants, seafood distribution and vending machines. | Got 12 yrs (in jail in Fort Worth, Texas) | ||
(Joseph Valachi, the | Liborio “Barney” Bellomo, 40 | NYC | ditto | Jailed in 1997 for 10 | |
first mafia informant, | his second in command | years (extortion) | |||
was a Genovese) | |||||
(The largest NY family | Dominick Cirillo, aged 76 (2006) | NYC | ditto | Suffered a heart | Jailed for 4 urs |
with 250 made men) | Quiet Dom, acting boss | attack in 1998 | in 2006 | ||
(Former boss Anthony | |||||
“Fat Tony” Salerno was | Vincent Romano | NYC | ditto | ? | |
jailed for 100 yrs in 1987 | |||||
for being part of the | Frank “The Fish” Fogliano | NYC | extortion | Controls Fulton St | |
Mafia Commission, he | fish market in NYC | ||||
died in jail in 1992, aged | |||||
76) | Gennaro Langella, 47 | NYC | Drugs, extortion, | Jailed in 1987 for cocaine | |
Second most powerful | aka “Gerry Lang” | smuggling racket (run | |||
family in New York | with Colombians) | ||||
Relatively low profile | Louis Ferrara | NYC | Drugs, extortion, | ditto | |
Barclay Farenga | NYC | Drugs, extortion | ditto | ||
Daniel Pagano, 43 | NYC | Drugs, racketeering | Jailed in 1993 for | ||
extorting millions from | |||||
Operation Daisy Chain>> | Russian mafia (who | ||||
controlled black | |||||
market in petrol) | |||||
Anthony”Tony D”Palombo,46 | NYC | ditto | ditto | ||
Tino Fiumara, capo (head of | New Jersey | ditto | On the lam for 5 years | ||
Genovese’s NJ branch), 57 | until arrest in April 1999 | ||||
Pasquale “Patsy” Parrello | NYC (Bronx) | various rackets | Busted in Dec 2001 | ||
(capo) | (Rigoletto restaurant) | in major FBI operation | |||
Joseph Savarese, associate | NYC | rackets | ditto | ||
(including conspiracy to rob $6m payroll) | |||||
Anthony Cappanelli | NYC | ditto | ditto | ||
Joseph Dente Jr, capo | NYC | rackets | ditto | ||
Rosario “Ross” Gangi | NYC | extortion, bank fraud, | ditto | ||
embezzlement | |||||
Lawrence “Little Larry” Dentico | NYC | Jailed for 30 months for loansharking in 2006 (see Cirillo) | |||
John “Johnny Sausage” Barbato | NYC | ditto | |||
Anthony “Tico” Antico | NYC | Ditto (51 months) | |||
Colombo family | Carmine”The Snake”Persico | NYC | Narcotics, gambling, | jailed in 1987 (aged 53) for | |
(was the Profaci family | loan-sharking, cigarette | 39 years for racketeering | |||
until 1962 when Joe Colombo took over) | smuggling, pornography, | ||||
(boss Salvatore Scarpa | counterfeiting, hijacking, | ||||
was shot dead in 1987 | Ralph Scopo, 57 (in 1987) | NYC | bankruptcy fraud. | Jailed in 1987 | |
by 5 masked gunmen) | (Presdt of Concrete Workers’ Union) | ||||
There was a bloody | |||||
internal feud in 1991 btwn | Victor “Little Vic” Orena | NYC | Survived assassination | ||
Persico loyalist and | attempt in 1991 | ||||
Orena supporters | |||||
Alphonse Persico, Carmine’s | NYC | currently serving an 18- | Acquitted of murder | ||
It now has less than | son, could be new boss | month sentence issued | & racketeering in | ||
200 made men | aka “Allie Boy | in February 2000 for illegal | 1994 (after coming out | ||
gun possession in Miami. | of jail in 1993). | ||||
Andrew Russo, cousin of | NYC | Convicted of obstructing | |||
Persico (was acting boss) | justice in Jan 1999 | ||||
Carmine Sessa, hitman | NYC | turned pentiti | got off scot free | ||
for Orena | |||||
Frank Persico, stockbroker | NYC | Stock market fraud | Arrested for | ||
treasurer of Production Workers’ Local 400 | securities fraud | racketeering in April 2000 | |||
OPERATION UPTICK | |||||
Anthony Stropoli, soldier | NYC | controlled crews of | ditto | ||
stockbrokers thru violence | |||||
Sebastian Rametta,associate NYC | RICO charges | ditto | |||
(took over sandwich company Ranch 1) | |||||
James Chickara, associate | NYC | RICO charges | ditto | ||
Daniel Persico, associate | NYC | arrested over stock fraud | |||
Sep-00 | |||||
Gambino family | John “Dapper Don” Gotti, 60 | NYC (also strong in | Control Brooklyn docks, | Jailed for life in 1992 | Diagnosed with neck and mouth cancer in 2000 (given a year to live) |
(was Albert Anastasia’s | (now in Marion Federal | Miami) | NY truckers, garment | for racketeering & murder of | |
gang until 1957) | Penitentiary in Illinois), boss | industry, meat & bread | Paul Castellano in 1985 | ||
distribution, pornography | |||||
Less than 200 made men | Frank Locascio, 59 | narcotics, gambling, | Also jailed in 1992 | ||
aka “Frankie Loc” | and car theft (sold to | (now in Terre Haute | pentitentiary, Indiana) | ||
Was most powerful | outlets in Kuwait) | ||||
family in US in late ’80s | |||||
and early ’90s but was | Sammy “The Bull” Gravano | NYC (now Arizona) | Turned pentiti and | Joined Federal Witness | |
hit by Gotti’s conviction | Gotti’s right hand man | grassed up Gotti | Protection Programme after serving 5 years | ||
(relocated to Arizona | |||||
(Gotti’s mentor was | but arrested in 2000 for drug dealing) | ||||
In 2002 he was jailed for 19 yrs for drug dealing | |||||
Aniello “Neil” Dellacroce) | |||||
He died of natural | John Gambino, 53 (in 1994) | NYC | Murder & racketeering | Jailed for 15 yrs in 1994 | |
causes in 1986 | |||||
Joe Gambino, 48 (in 1994) | NYC | ditto | ditto | ||
Tommy Gambino | NYC | ditto | ditto | ||
Nicky Corozzo, 52 | NYC | handles large quantities | beat racketeering rap | contender for boss | |
of stolen goods | in 1987.Jailed in 1996 | for 6 yrs | |||
Giuseppe “Joe” Arcuri, 80 | NYC | contender for boss | |||
underboss | |||||
“Joe Butch” Corrao, 55 | NYC | the usual | contender for boss | ||
acting boss since 1992 | (restaurateur, Little Italy) | ||||
“Frankie Dap” Dapolito, 68 | NYC | union racketeering & | ditto | ||
freight hijacking at JFK | |||||
John Gotti Jr, 28, de facto | NYC | “No brain surgeon” | Jailed in April 1999 | In Raybrook jail | |
head (Gotti’s hot headed son | for 6 yrs (extortion) | in upstate NY (due out in 2004) | |||
Peter Gotti, elder brother to | NYC | Racketeering/extortion | Convicted of | US Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf | |
the boss and former sanitation | (tried to muscle in on | racketeering in | |||
worker, (acting boss), 63 in | the film industry) | March 2003 (Stephen | |||
2003 | Seagal testified against him) | ||||
Jailed for 25 years in July 2005 | |||||
for ordering failed hit on Sammy Gravano | |||||
Richard V Gotti, another | NYC | Ditto | Ditto | ||
brother of John and Peter | |||||
Richard G Gotti, nephew | NYC | Ditto | Ditto | ||
Anthony “Sonny” Ciccone | based in Manalapan, | Ditto | Ditto | ||
68 (in 2003) | New Jersey | ||||
Primo Cassarino, 46 | Brooklyn | Ditto | Ditto | ||
John “Jackie Nose” D’Amico | NYC | supposedly in charge of DeCalvacante family in NJ | |||
capo | |||||
Carlos Vaccarezza, capo | NYC | ||||
Joe “The German” Watts | NYC | Jailed in 1995 | |||
“Vinnie Aspirins” Conguisti | Las Vegas | Arrested in Oct 98 | |||
enforcer | by FBI (enforcers | ||||
for Gambinos in | |||||
Anton “Angel of Mercy” | Las Vegas | Vegas sex industry) | |||
Nelson, enforcer | |||||
Mario Stefano | NYC/Vegas | Arrested in 1998 on | |||
his way to Vegas | |||||
Frederick “Uncle” Massaro, capo | Miami | bank and credit card fraud, extortion, obstruction of justice | Arrested for these | ||
loansharking | charges and murder | ||||
Francis “Little Frankie” Ruggiero | Miami | of stripper Jade Smith | |||
Charles P. Monico | Miami | ||||
Julius P. Chiusano | Miami | ||||
Anthony “Tony Pep” Trentacosta | |||||
Miami | |||||
Edward Garafola, soldier | NYC | arrested over stock fraud, Sep 00 | |||
Joseph Polito Sr, associate | NYC | ditto | |||
Leonard Dimaria, capo | NYC (Brooklyn) | loansharking, gambling. | head of “Canarsie Crew” | ||
stolen property | |||||
Louis Scida, soldier | NYC | member, Canarsie Crew | |||
Vincent Dragonetti | NYC | ditto | |||
Frank “Jeep” Citriniti | NYC | ditto | |||
Sal “Chicky” Cicarelli | NYC | ditto | |||
Bonanno family | Phil “Rusty” Rustelli, boss | NYC, Newark and | Drugs, pornography, | Jailed in 1987 | |
(did not have a seat | until died in jail in 1991 | Philadelphia | pizza restaurants and | (Pizza Connection) | |
on The Commission | cafes, gambling and | ||||
for many years because | Anthony “Bruno” Indelicato | NYC | Joker Poker machines | ditto | |
their drug dealing was | aged 38 (in 1987) | ||||
disapproved of, now do) | |||||
Salvatore Catalano, 45 | Sicily | Jailed in 1987 for Pizza | |||
They are prospering | Connection drugs ring | ||||
and getting bigger | |||||
but still have less than | Joseph “Big Joey” Massino | NYC | part-owner of Casablanca | Convicted in 1986 of controlling Teamsters Local 814 | |
120 made men | boss, 57 | (lives in Howard Beach, | restaurant in Maspeth, Queens | ||
(started as a truck hijacker | Queens) | (also owns King Caterers, | |||
(founded by Joe | but rose up the ranks) | which provides food for | Now a free man | ||
“Joe Bananas” Bonanno) | (was allied to Rustelli faction) | street vendors) | (acquitted of murdering capos | ||
now 95, retired, Arizona | Alphonse (Sonny Red) Indelicato & | ||||
Philip Giaccone & | |||||
(were damaged by | Dominick Trinchera | in 1981 | |||
infiltration of FBI agent | Was also the man who ordered the murder of Dominick Napolitano (the Al Pacino | In Jan 2003 he was | |||
Joe Pistone aka | character in the film Donnie Brasco) | charged with the | |||
Donnie Brasco) | murder of Napolitano | ||||
Due to go on trial in | |||||
(Rustelli took over after | Apr-04 | ||||
1979 murder of Carmine | |||||
Galante, in internal war | Salvatore Vitale, brother-in- | NYC | also going on trial in Apr 04 | ||
law, underboss | |||||
Anthony “Tony Green” Urso | NYC | ditto | |||
acting consigliere | |||||
Joseph “Joe C” Cammarano | NYC | ditto | |||
acting underboss | |||||
Louis “Louie Ha Ha” Attanasio | NYC | ditto | |||
former acting underboss | |||||
Robert “Bobby Ha Ha” Attanasio | NYC | ditto | |||
capo | |||||
Generoso “Jimmy The General” | NYC | ditto | |||
Barbieri, capo | |||||
Peter “Peter Rabbit” Calabrese | NYC | ditto | |||
capo | |||||
Michael “Mickey Bats” Cardello | NYC | ditto | |||
capo | |||||
Joseph “Joe Desi” Desimone | NYC | ditto | |||
capo | |||||
Anthony “Anthony Black” Furino | NYC | ditto | |||
capo | |||||
Robert Attanasio Jr, capo | NYC | ditto | |||
Vito Rizzuto, soldier | Montreal, Canada | ditto | |||
boss of Montreal Bonannos | |||||
Sandro Aiosa, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
Frank Ambrosino, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
Baldassare “Baldo” Amato, soldr | NYC | ditto | |||
Anthony Basile, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
Peter “Petey Boxcars” Cosoleto | NYC | ditto | |||
Joseph “Joe Shakes” DiStefano | NYC | ditto | |||
Gino Gallestro, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
Stephen “Stevie Blue” Locurto | NYC | ditto | |||
Anthony Navarra, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
Philip Navarra, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
John Palazzolo, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
Richard “Big Richie” Riccardi | NYC | ditto | |||
Patrick “Patty Muscles” Romanello | NYC | ditto | |||
Joseph Sabella, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
Michele “Mikey Boots” Sottile | NYC | ditto | |||
Joseph Torre, soldier | NYC | ditto | |||
Fabritzio DeFrancisci, 30, | NYC | Admitted murder and | |||
running a crack cocaine ring | |||||
Joseph Benanti, 66, soldier | NYC | in South Brooklyn in 2000 | |||
capo Anthony Spero, 73, | Miami | (also runs Bath Avenue | Indicted for murder | ||
crew in Brooklyn) | |||||
Chris Paciello, associate | South Beach, Miami | Indicted for murder, | |||
celebrity and friend of | racketeering & burglary | ||||
Madonna | |||||
Frank Coppa Sr, capo | NYC | arrested over stock fraud Sep 00 | |||
Eugene Lombardo,associate | NYC | ||||
Lucchese family | Anthony “Tony Ducks” | NYC | Drug trafficking, gambling | Jailed for life in 1987 | |
badly affected by FBI | Corallo, 73, then boss | and Las Vegas | loansharking, construction | for racketeering | |
infiltration in 1980s | garment industry | ||||
(1970s Lucchese boss | Salvatore “Tom Mix” Santoro | NYC | Garbage disposal | Also jailed | |
Paul Vario was ratted on | 72, underboss | racket | |||
by Henry Hill, played by | |||||
Ray Liotta in the film | Christopher Furnari, 62 | NYC | ditto | ||
Goodfellas) | aka “Christy Tick”,consigliere | ||||
Hill is in FWP | |||||
Has only about 70 | Victor Amuso, 57, new boss | NYC | #100m window | Jailed for life in 1991 | |
made men | replacement racket/ | (now in Terre Haute prison, Indiana) | |||
and is in increasing | extortion/consp to murder | ||||
disarray caused by | |||||
numerous turncoats | Anthony Accetturro, 48, | Newark | Acquitted in 1988 of | ||
underboss | (Hole In The Wall luncheonette) | gambling & credit card fraud | |||
Weakest of the | |||||
Five Families | Michael Taccetta, 38 | ditto | ditto | ||
Anthony “Gas Pipe” Casso | NYC | ||||
Joe DeFede | NYC | admitted extortion in | |||
Dec-98 | |||||
Steve Crea, new boss | NYC | enterprise corruption | arrested in Sept 2000 | ||
(in Rikers Island awaiting trial) | |||||
Al “Little Al” D’Arco,one-time | NYC | turned supergrass | implicated Gotti Jr along | ||
acting boss | with snitch “Fat Dom” | ||||
Borghese | |||||
Eugene (Bubsie) Castelle, 40, underboss | NYC (Bensonhurst) | Extortion, loansharking | Arrested in Nov 2000 | ||
Joseph (Joey Flowers) | NYC (Bensonhurst) | ditto and drugs trade | ditto | ||
Tangorra, 51, capo | (based in flower shop) | (conspiracy to murder) | |||
(Castelle and Tangorra divvied up the drug trade with the Bonanno family’s Bath Avenue crew, led by Anthony Spero) | |||||
Joseph (JoJo) Truncale, 69 | ditto | (they murdered Victor | |||
Filocamo in Oct 98, an | |||||
Scott Gervasi, 36, soldier | ditto | alleged informant) | |||
John (Big John) Castellucci, 40, soldier | ditto | ||||
Lester Ellis, 50, aka Zullo | ditto | (killed Henry Motta in | |||
Mar 1992, over a debt) | |||||
Robert (the Vulture) Greenberg | |||||
29, aka Volturo, soldier | ditto | ||||
Daniel Rizzo, soldier | NYC | ||||
Joseph Datello, 48, soldier | NYC | President of Laborers’ | Arrested over construction trade | ||
Union, Local 20 (Manhattan) | 2000 | ||||
DeCavalcante family | Giovanni (John) Riggi, 75 | New Jersey | Jailed in 1993 along with | ||
small family | boss | most of the other leaders | |||
(founded by Samuel | (rules from jail) | ||||
DeCalvacante) | John “Jackie Nose” D’Amico | NJ | Shot dead in 1992 after | ||
was in | rumours that he was gay | ||||
(supposedly the | charge of DeCalvacante family | ||||
basis for The Sopranos) | (answerable to Gambinos) | loansharking, extortion etc | |||
Girolamo “Jimmy” Palermo | New Jersey | Went on trial in 2003 for | (took over from D’Amato) | ||
another reputed boss | conspiracy to kill | along with Vinnie Palermo and Larry Schiro | |||
Vincent Palermo, aka | New Jersey | Decided to testify | In witness | ||
“Vinnie Ocean” | (arrested in 1999) | against the mob in Apr 03 | protection program | ||
(the ‘real Tony Soprano’) | |||||
Larry Schiro, capo | NJ | ||||
Charles “Big Ears” Majuri | NJ | ||||
Philip Abramo, capo | Tampa | charged with stock fraud | |||
Louis Consalvo, soldier | Tampa | ditto (Sept 2000) | |||
James “Jimmy Easy” Saracco | arrested in 2000 over | ||||
soldier | New Jersey | loansharking etc | |||
Joe “Tin Ear” Sclafani, 63 (in 06) | NJ | ||||
Stefano “Steve” Vitabile, 67 | New Jersey | Went on trial in Apr 03 | (Manhattan | ||
consigliere for 35 yrs | accused of murdering gay | federal court) | |||
mobster John “Johnny | |||||
Boy” d’Amato | |||||
The Buffalo mob | Stefano Maggadino, boss | Buffalo, New York | usual rackets (control | died naturally in 1974 | |
started in 1922 | until 1974 | Local 210 of the Laborers | |||
union) | |||||
Salvatore Pieri, new boss, | ditto | died in 1987 | |||
ruled from 1974 until 1987 | |||||
Joseph Todaro, current boss | ditto | have made moves to get | now semi-retired | ||
aka Lead Pipe Joe, 77 | (semi-retired) | into Las Vegas | and living in Florida | ||
see also LA Mob | Joe Todaro Jr, underboss | ditto | (killed Herbie Blitzstein | ||
53, (acting boss) | in 1997) | ||||
Peter Caruso, 58 and his | Las Vegas | killed Blitzstein | |||
brother Louis, 40 | |||||
Steve Cino, 60 | ditto | ditto (in Black Book) | jailed for 15 years | ||
(joined LA Mob) | |||||
Tony DeLulio, 45 | ditto | ditto | |||
Alfred Mauriello, 69 | ditto | ditto | |||
Steve Mauriello, 44 | ditto | ditto | supergrass | ||
Joe DeLuca, 40 | ditto | ditto | |||
Charles Librizzi, 53 | ditto | ditto | |||
Robert Panaro Sr, 55 | ditto | ditto | Convicted in 1998 | ||
aka “Bobby” | |||||
The Rochester Mob | Thomas Didio, boss | Rochester, NY | War broke out in 1978 | killed in 1978 war | |
founded in 1950s by | between rival wings of | ||||
Stanley Valenti | the family | ||||
Angelo Amico, new boss | ditto | RICO charges | Jailed in 1987 | ||
55 in 1987 | (jailed for 14 years) | ||||
Richard Marino | ditto | RICO charges & arson | Now in jail (since 1984) | ||
Rene Piccaretto | ditto | ditto | ditto | ||
Anthony Colombo | ditto | ditto | ditto | ||
Joe “The Hop” Rossi | ditto | ditto | ditto (til 2008) | ||
Robert Silveri | ditto | active | |||
Joe Lodolce | ditto | active | |||
Joe Trieste | ditto | active | |||
Philadelphia Mob | “Little Nicky” Scarfo, boss | Philly | Jailed for life in 1985 (murder) | ||
He held onto power until ’91 | for murder of “Frankie Flowers” D’Alfonso | ||||
John Stanfa, new boss | Philly | Convicted of narcotics offence | |||
in 1994 | |||||
Joseph Merlino, 37, aka | ditto/Atlantic City | (unpopular with Genovese) | Indicted on federal | Jailed for 14 years in 2001. | |
Skinny Joey, next boss | (took over in 1994) | (allied with Pagans | racketeering charges | Due for parole in 2011. | |
(led group of young “Turks”) | motorcycle gang) | in Dec 1999 | |||
(believed to have been behind bomb murder of Anthony Turra, father of the late Philly drug lord Louis Turra, an independent operator) | |||||
Ralph Natale, next boss | ditto | Jailed in 1998 for a | Turned rat | ||
turned rat | parole violation | ||||
(his friend Ralph Turchi was killed to teach him a lesson) | |||||
Michael Ciancaglini, was acting | ditto | ||||
boss (consigliere) | |||||
Joseph Ligambi, boss, 64 (in 07) | ditto | ||||
Michael “Mikey Lance” Lancellotti | ditto | In 07 busted for running | charged with consp | ||
capo, 45 (in 2007) | illegal £22m sports bet | to promote gambling | |||
operation in Atlantic City | in 07 | ||||
Anthony Nicodemo, 36, soldier | ditto | ditto | ditto | ||
Andrew Micali, 32, from Ventnor | ditto | ditto | ditto plus money laundering | ||
ringleader | and criminal usury | ||||
Steven “Stevie Gongs” Casasanto | ditto | ditto | promoting gambling | ||
37 from Philly | |||||
NE Pennsylvania Mob | Russell Bufalino, boss | Scranton, Pittston and | died in 1975 | ||
founded in 1908 by | Wilkes-Barre | ||||
Santo Volpe. In 1959 | Edward Sciandra, new boss | ditto | |||
boss Joseph Barbara | |||||
hosted the fateful | William D’Elia, current boss | ditto | (helped to settle disputes | ||
Appalachin meeting. He | between the various | ||||
was succeeded by | Philly factions) | ||||
Bufalino | |||||
The Pittsburgh Mob | Michael Genovese (Vito | Pittsburgh | |||
founded by Stefano | Genovese’s cousin), boss | (moving into Cleveland | |||
Monastero in 1920s | since 1986 | and Youngstown) | (tried to extort money | ||
(tried in vain to infiltrate | from a Native American | ||||
steel unions in 1950s) | Joe Pecora, underboss | ditto | casino in California) | died in 1987 | |
has 35 made men | |||||
Lenny Strollo, local boss | Youngstown | (also charged with | charged with racketeering | ||
murder of mob rival | and illegal gambling in 2000 | ||||
Lawrence Garolo | Hubbard | Ernie Biondillo in 1996) | ditto | ||
Joe & Mike Serrechio | ditto | ditto | |||
Dante Strollo, brother? | Canfield | ditto | |||
Peter Pacalo Sr and Jr | Struthers | ditto | |||
Thomas Vigarino | ditto | ditto | |||
Fred Demarco Austintown. | ditto | ||||
Sam Vona Struthers; | ditto | ||||
Joseph Diorio Lowellville; | ditto | ||||
Anthony Chearno Youngstown; | ditto | ||||
Michael Scarpaci | ditto | ditto | |||
The Cleveland Mob | Angelo Lonardo, 72, boss | Cleveland | (his downfall began with | turned state witness in | |
dates back to 1920s | the murder of Danny | 1983, fatally wounding the | |||
(first family to take a | Greene, an Irish-American | family (got life anyway) | |||
stake in Vegas, through | racketeer who muscled | ||||
Moe Dalitz & Desert Inn) | John Tronolone, new boss | ditto | in on their turf) | died in 1991 | |
“Joe Loose” Iacobacci, | ditto | FBI claims there is no longer a Cleveland Mob | to speak of | ||
current boss | (see Pittsburgh Mob, who’ve moved in on their turf) | ||||
The Boston Mob | Raymond Patriarca Jr, boss | Boston (moved base to | (a property developer | Jailed in 1989 on RICO | |
aka Patriarca family | (succeeded his father in ’85) | Providence in 1950s) | since release from jail) | charges (released in 1998) | |
(lives in Lincoln, RI) | |||||
Francis “Cadillac Frank” | Boston/Providence, | took over in 1991 | Went on trial in 1998 | ||
Salemme, new boss | Rhode Island | ||||
(trying to make inroads | |||||
Nicholas “Nicky” Bianco, | ditto | into Las Vegas – linked | Acquitted in 1984 of | ||
underboss (acting boss) | to Herbie Blitzstein murder) | conspiracy to murder | |||
(former member of Colombo | Anthony Mirabella | ||||
family in NYC) | Died in prison in 1994 | ||||
(mob base has shifted | |||||
Eddie Lato | back to Boston) | loansharking and | Awaiting sentence | ||
Rocco “Rocky” Folco | racketeering | (could go down for life) | |||
Matthew Guglielmetti, | Boston | Patriarca is forbidden from making contact with them | |||
(mob figure) | |||||
William “Blackjack” Del Santo | ditto | ||||
Rocco Argenti | ditto | ditto | |||
Blaise Marfeo | ditto | ditto | |||
Ray Lyons | ditto | ditto | |||
Luigi Giovanni Manocchio | Providence | large-scale burglary | awaiting trial | ||
aka “Baby Shacks” | |||||
The Detroit Mob | “Black Jack” Tocco, 69,boss | Detroit | (became boss in 1977) | Jailed for 1 year and 1 day | |
(responsible for murder | (lives in Grosse Pointe Pk) | (part-owner of Hazel Pk racetrack) | in January 1999 (racketeering) | ||
of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975 | Walked free in Nov 99 | but jailed in Apr 00 (due out Mar 2002) | |||
when Joe Zerilli was boss) | Anthony Zerilli,underboss,68 | (Jack Tocco’s cousin) | Jailed in 1974 | ||
(Sterling Heights)aka Tony Z | (part-owner of a laundry in Saginaw) | ||||
Detroit Mob was badly | |||||
wounded by these | Anthony Giacolone, 80, | ditto | (he was the man Hoffa | unlikely to face trial (ill health) | |
convictions | aka “Tony Jack”, enforcer | said he was going to visit when he vanished) | |||
Tony Tocco, 66, consigliere | ditto | (very important figure) | acquitted on all charges | ||
aka “Tony T”, married to Carmella Profaci (daughter of NY boss Joe Profaci) | |||||
Tony “The Bull” Corrado, 63 | ditto | (regular visitor to Vegas) | ditto | ||
(from Clinton Township) capo | (co-owner of Melrose Linen) | ||||
Jack Vito Giacolone, aka | illegal betting, extortion | ||||
The Kid, 49 (rising star) | (Billy Jack’s son and heir apparent because of his age) | ||||
Paul Corrado, 39, soldier | ditto | convicted of jury nobbling in 1998 (short term) | |||
Peter Corrado, brother, soldier | |||||
Vito Giacolone, 73,capo | ditto | ditto | |||
(from Clinton) aka Billy Jack | |||||
Vincent Meli,acting underboss | labour racketeering | ||||
(his sister Antoinette is Jack Tocco’s wife) | slot machines | ||||
Ronald Morelli, 62 | Detroit, Ohio valley | loansharking, card games | Now out of jail after serving 15 years | ||
Francesco Bommarito, 68 | ditto | armed robbery etc | |||
Carlo Bommarito, 40?, son | ditto | various bother | acquitted (hung jury) of firebombing | ||
soldier | |||||
Nove Tocco, Jack’s cousin | ditto | turned rat | ditto | ||
John Sciarrota, | ditto | ditto | |||
John Jarjosa, | ditto | ditto | |||
Paul Tocco, 82 | ditto | (in doghouse after | ditto | ||
shaking down gamblers who had already paid Jack Tocco) | |||||
Salvatore “Mops” Tocco, 51 | ditto | acquitted of gambling scame | |||
associate | |||||
The Chicago Outfit | Joey “The Clown” Lombardo | Chicago | (now the most powerful | Indicted by Operation Family Secrets in | |
(successors to Al Capone | former boss, now adviser, 75 (in 2005) | mob in US and only one | April 2005. Gone on the run. | ||
and Sam Giancana) | left with serious Vegas | ||||
Became involved in | John “The Nose” DiFronzio | ditto | and Teamsters control) | runs it day-to-day | |
Vegas casinos in 1960s | the boss | ||||
through Tony “The Ant” | |||||
Spilotro (RIP) and | Angelo LaPietra, underboss | ditto | gambling | ||
Johnny Roselli | |||||
James “Little Jimmy” Marcello | ditto | One of the bosses now | Indicted by Op Family Secrets in Apr 05 | ||
Joe Andriacchi, Lombardo’s | ditto | ||||
cousin, boss of North Side | |||||
Anthony Centracchio | ditto | ||||
boss of the West Side | |||||
Joe Monteleone, | ditto | ||||
boss of the South Side | |||||
Frank “Gumba” Saladino, 59 | ditto | Found dead in a hotel in Highland, Illinois in Apr 05 after being indicted by Op Family Secrets | |||
Frank Calabrese, underboss | ditto | In jail. Indicted by Op Family Secrets (after being grassed up by his brother Nick Calabrese) | |||
Paul “The Indian” Schiro | ditto | Indicted by Op Family Secrets in Apr 05 | |||
Nicholas Ferriola | ditto | ditto | |||
Joseph Venezia | ditto | ditto | |||
WEST SIDE: | |||||
Joe Cullotta, soldier | |||||
William Galioto, ditto | (friend of Rick Tabish from Missoula, Montana, who is doing life for murder of Las Vegas casino boss Ted Binion) | ||||
Roger Riccio, ditto | |||||
Al Tornabene, ditto | |||||
Larry Petit, ditto | |||||
Mike Carioscia, associate | |||||
Renato DiSilvestro, ditto | |||||
James Inendino, ditto | |||||
Peter Labalestra, ditto | |||||
Mike Schivarelli, ditto | |||||
Louis Pannos, ditto | |||||
Vic Tartan, ditto | |||||
NORTH SIDE: | |||||
Vincent Cuzzo, soldier | ditto | ||||
Michael Magnifichi, ditto | |||||
Michael Marcello, ditto | ditto | Indicted by Op Family Secrets in Apr 05 | |||
Willie Messino, ditto | |||||
Don Scalise, ditto | ditto | ||||
James Basile, associate | |||||
Dom Basso, ditto | |||||
Eugene Cacciatore, ditto | |||||
Tom Capione | |||||
Frank Derosa | |||||
Ronald Derosa | |||||
Loren Diamond | |||||
Joe DiFronzo | ON THE RUN | ||||
Tom Forliano | |||||
Rudy Fratto | |||||
Gary Gagliano | |||||
Roland Ignoffo | |||||
Andrew Lombardo | |||||
Leo Manolis | |||||
Nick Nitti | |||||
Joe Pascucci | |||||
Nicholas Sarrillo | |||||
Phil Tolomeo | |||||
Albert Vena | |||||
Joe Volpe | |||||
Lenny Patrick | |||||
Michael Posner | |||||
Frank “The German” Schweihs | Indicted by Op Family Secrets in Apr 05. ON THE RUN | ||||
George Sommer | |||||
James Vondruska, ditto | |||||
SOUTH SIDE: | |||||
Al Pilotto, soldier | ditto | ||||
Jim DiForti, ditto | |||||
Al Rosetti, ditto | |||||
Al Rovario, ditto | |||||
Sal Bastone, associate | ditto | ||||
Sam Bills | |||||
Sean Bills | |||||
Wayne Bock | |||||
Virgil Cimmino | |||||
William DiDomenico | |||||
Michael Gurgone | |||||
Ronald Jarrett | |||||
Gino Martin | |||||
Art Rachel | |||||
Jerry “Joe” Scalise | |||||
Joe Wing, ditto | |||||
Bobby Salerno, soldier | |||||
Dominic Cortina, member | involved in gambling (associated with Northside Crew) | ||||
Marco D’Amico | in prison | ||||
Joe Spadavecchio, soldier | |||||
for more info on Chicago: | http://www.ipsn.org/OutfitChart.html | ||||
The Rockford Mob | Frank Buscemi, boss | Rockford, Illinois | very little known about it | (took over in 1973) | |
(extension of Chicago) | |||||
The Milwaukee Mob | Frank Balistrieri, boss | Milwaukee | (was in charge of skim- | died in 1993 | |
(originally a branch of | (from 1962) | ming money from Vegas) | (Democratic Senator Gary George went to his funeral) | ||
the Chicago outfit) | |||||
Joseph Balistrieri, son, | ditto | still strong locally | |||
has only 15 made men | new boss | ||||
Joseph Caminiti, consigliere | ditto | ||||
(holds much power) | |||||
The Madison Mob | Carlo Caputo, boss, 90 | Madison, Wisconsin | mob is now extinct | Died of natural causes in 1993 | |
The St Louis Mob | Anthony Giordano, boss | St Louis | (had interests in the | died in 1980 | |
(founded by John Vitale, | from 1961 | Frontier and Dunes | |||
who died in 1961) | hotels in Vegas) | ||||
John Vitale, son of original | St Louis | (the Mob also controlled | jailed in 1982 | ||
now has only 12 made | boss, new boss | Sonny Liston in 1950s) | |||
men | |||||
Matthew Trupiano, new boss | St Louis | died in 1997 | |||
Joseph Cammarata, current | ditto | (the Mob is very much | |||
boss? | declined from its heyday) | ||||
Anthony Parrino, underboss | ditto | ||||
The New Orleans Mob | Carlos Marcello, boss, | New Orleans | convicted in 1985 of trying | ||
(one of the oldest) | previously untouchable | to bribe a judge. He died | |||
(may have been involved | in prison in 1993 | ||||
in murder of JFK) | Joseph Marcello, brother, | ditto | (have lost much of their | ||
new boss | power to NY and Philly | ||||
Mobsters who have moved | |||||
in on their rackets) | |||||
The Dallas Mob | – | Dallas | no longer active | ||
founded in 1921 (and | |||||
suspected of involvement | (was always subservient | ||||
in JFK murder) | to New Orleans Mob) | ||||
The Kansas City Mob | “Tony Ripes” Civella, | Kansas City, Missouri | loansharking, bookmaking | took over in 1995 | |
dates from 1920s but | Nicky Civella’s nephew, boss | and extortion | (free since 1996) | ||
rose to prominence in | BOTH ARE IN | ||||
1960s thru boss Nicky | Peter “PJ” Ribaste, sidekick | Las Vegas | (there are about 20 | THE BLACK BOOK | |
Civella (allied with | (in charge of their interests | made men left) | (cannot enter Vegas) | ||
Chicago and Denver mob) | in Vegas) | very tight-knit, controlling | |||
Civella was jailed for | street rackets | ||||
skimming Vegas profits | William Cammisano Jr | Kansas City | ditto | ||
underboss | |||||
The Denver Mob | James & Vincenzo Colletti | Denver | (destroyed by FBI in 1984) | Jailed in 1984 | |
dates from Prohibition | loansharking | ||||
era but died out in 1940s | Eugene Smaldone, boss | ditto | (under command of | Jailed | |
(resurrected in 1968 by | Chicago family) | ||||
Colletti brothers) | Clarence Smaldone, brother | ditto | Jailed | ||
(has only 10 made men) | |||||
The Tampa Mob | Santos Trafficante, boss | Tampa Bay | Drug dealing (turned to it | Died in 1987 | |
aka Trafficante Family | (lost millions when Castro | after Cuban casinos lost) | |||
took over in 1958) | (cocaine) | ||||
only has 7 or 8 made | has since diversified into | ||||
men | Vincent LoScalzo, new boss | ditto | white collar crime and | Given probation in 1997 | |
legitimate business | for bank fraud | ||||
Frank Albano, underboss | ditto | ||||
Sam Carollo, soldier | ditto | ||||
Joseph DiGerlando, soldier | ditto | ||||
James Valenti, soldier | ditto | ||||
Joe Camero, associate | ditto | ||||
Joseph Bedami, associate | ditto | ||||
James Donofrio, associate | ditto | ||||
Sam Pupello, associate | ditto | ||||
Michael Napoli, associate | ditto | ||||
The Los Angeles Mob | Peter Milano, boss | LA (answerable to | (trying to move in on | Convicted in 1988 | (now free) |
aka Mickey Mouse Mafia | Chicago Mob) | Las Vegas) | (grassed up by Tony and Lawrence Fiato) | ||
see also Buffalo Mob | Carmen Milano, brother | LA | ditto (now free) | ||
underboss | (grassed up by Al DeLuca) | ||||
Only has 15 made men | |||||
Vincent “Jimmy” Caci, 73 | Palm Springs (originally | ditto | |||
capo | from Buffalo) | ||||
Stephen “The Whale” Cino, | LA | Linked up with Buffalo | Jailed for 15 years | ||
62 | Mob to kill Herbie Blitzstein | ||||
in 1997 | |||||
Tony Davi, 31 | LA | Jailed for 20 years | |||
Richard Friedman, hitman | LA | (he pulled the trigger) | Jailed for 25 years | ||
San Francisco Mob | Joseph “Jimmy” Lanza, | San Francisco | Gambling | Died of natural causes | |
Founded in late 1920s | boss, 73 | in 1989 | |||
Frank “Skinny” Velotta, | ditto | ||||
new boss | |||||
Angelo Commito, underboss | ditto | ||||
The San Jose Mob | Angelo Marino, boss | San Jose | died of heart attack | ||
founded in 1942 | (many Asian gangs | in 1983 | |||
Emmanuel Figlia, new boss | ditto | have taken over their | |||
rackets) | |||||
Salvatore Marino, son | ditto | ||||
US prison gangs
Gang | Main members | Base | Business | Events/Status |
The Aryan Brotherhood | Thomas Silverstein | Leavenworth,Texas | Narcotics | Jailed for life in 1980 for |
formed in 1964 when | murder of Danny Atwell | |||
members of Blue Birds | (who refused to smuggle | |||
motorcycle gang joined | heroin into jail) | |||
up with neo-Nazi groups) | In 1981 he killed Robert | |||
Chapple (of DC Blacks) | ||||
(branches include | in Marion. | |||
Arizona Aryan | He then killed Raymond | |||
Brotherhood and | “Cadillac” Smith in | |||
Aryan Brotherhood of | Marion in 1981. In 1983 | |||
Texas) | he killed prison guard | |||
Merle Clutts and was | ||||
There is also a federal and | transferred to Atlanta | |||
a California faction | (no human contact) | |||
Since 1987 he has been | ||||
in isolation at Leavenworth | ||||
Dallas Scott | Marion, Illinois | Narcotics | Tried to kill Lieutenant | |
Jim Graham. In 1987 he | ||||
was convicted of trying | ||||
to smuggle heroin into | ||||
Leavenworth and was | ||||
sentenced to 17.5 years | ||||
at Marion. | ||||
Barry Mills, 54 | Florence, Colorado | Narcotics | Joint leader of the federal | |
(in 2002) | AB. Indicted in Nov 02 | |||
from Santa Rosa, California | in major operation | |||
Tyler Bingham, 55 | ditto | ditto | Ditto. Faces death | |
(in 2002) | penalty. | |||
from Sacramento | ||||
John Stinson, 48 | Pelican Bay, | ditto | Leader of California AB. | |
(in 2002) | California | Indicted in Nov 02. | ||
from Long Beach | Accused of ordering murders | |||
Richard Terflinger, 55 | ditto | ditto | Faces murder charges | |
from LA | ||||
Robert Griffin, 54, | ditto | ditto | Indicted in 2002 | |
from Orange County | ||||
Ron Slocum, 56 | Released shortly | ditto | Indicted in 2002 | |
from Chino, California | before his arrest | (carried messages) | ||
David Chance, 45 | In Pelican Bay | ditto | Faces death penalty | |
from LA | ||||
Michael McElhiney, | in Marion, Illinois | Various | Conducts AB’s day-to-day | |
45, from Sacramento | business in Marion | |||
David Sahakian, 46 | ditto | ditto | ditto | |
from Fresno | ||||
Cleo Roy, 41 | now in New | Various | While in Marion he | |
from New Hampshire | Hampshire prison | murdered a rogue AB member | ||
Glenn Filkins, 43, | in Florence ADX | Various | Murdered an inmate | |
from Maywood, Calif | who broke AB rules | |||
Steve Scott, 51, LA | in Springfield | Robbery etc | 2 attempted murders | |
med center, Missouri | ||||
Wayne Bridgewater, | in Florence ADX | Various | Member of Federal | |
50, from Seattle | Council of AB | |||
Steven Hicklin, 50 | in Florence ADX | Various | Eligible for death penalty | |
from Sacramento | ||||
Chris Gibson, 53 | in Florence ADX | Various | ditto | |
Michael Shepherd, | in San Joaquin | Possession of firearm. Indicted in 2002 | ||
45, from San Leandro | county jail | |||
Edward Burnett, 52 | in Pelican Bay | various | Faces death penalty | |
Long Beach | ||||
Edgar Hevle, 52 | in Florence ADX | various | ditto | |
from Fresno | ||||
Mark Nyquist, 46 | in Sacramento | narcotics | in charge of smuggling | |
from Sacramento | County jail | drugs into Leavenworth | ||
John Harper, 49, of | in California state | ditto | California AB member | |
Ventura, California | prison in Corcoran | |||
Glen West, 48, of | ? | ditto | Former member of AB’s | |
Louisiana | Federal Council | |||
Gary Littrell, 40, of | Pelican Bay | ditto | Murdered another AB | |
Bakersfield, Calif | member who disobeyed | |||
Elliott Grizzle, 31 | Pelican Bay | ditto | Assisted Littrell ditto | |
of San Luis Obispo | ||||
Thomas Hampton, 34 | California | ditto | Violated parole | |
Lakewood, Calif | ||||
John Campbell, 57 | in Florence ADX | ditto | Committed 3 murders | |
of Iowa | (bank robbery) | |||
Jesse Van Meter, 36 | ? | ditto | Conspiracy to start | |
Palm City, Florida | race war | |||
Donald Kennedy, 52 | in Atlanta | ditto | Murdered AB member | |
of Michigan | penitentiary | |||
Richard McIntosh, 40 | in Marion | ditto | Murdered a black | |
of Indiana | (bank robbery) | inmate as part of race war | ||
Carl Knorr Jr, 39 | in Marion | ditto | ditto | |
of Pennsylvania | (bank robbery) | |||
Jason Schwyhart, 29 | Fugitive (was in | ditto | Murdered two black | |
of Arkansas | Marion) | inmates | ||
Henry Houston, 42 | in Florence ADX | ditto | Ditto | |
of LA | ||||
Sean Darcy, 49 | Carmichael | ditto | Involved in narcotics | |
Carmichael, Calif | distribution | |||
211 Crew is a white supremacist gang active in and out of prison, mainly in Colorado. It was formed in 1995. In 1997, African immigrant Oumar Dia was murdered by 211 Crew gang members while waiting for a bus in Denver. A 211 Crew member, Evan Ebel, assassinated a Colorado Department of Corrections director, Tom Clements, in 2013. The gang is led by Ben Davis. Other senior individuals include James “Jimbo” Lohr. The gang’s members are banned from having sex with non-whites but they are friendly with The Juggalos, a Detroit gang who are multi-ethnic. | ||||
Nazi Low Riders | ? | California | ? | Have around 1,000 |
(allied to Aryan | members (tattoos of | |||
Brotherhood) | NLR) | |||
Dirty White Boys | ? | all over | Drugs | unlike the above, they |
are not overtly racist | ||||
The Mexican Mafia | Benjamin Peters, | California/Mexico | Narcotics | Serving life sentence in |
aka La Eme | aka “Topo”, leader since 1993 | and extortion | Pelican Bay prison | |
(founded in 1957) | (Sally Peters,wife,47) | G of racketeering/narcotics | ||
Members have a large M | Robert Perez, 40 | San Antonio,Texas | ditto | Went on trial in 1999 but |
tattooed on chest | aka “Beaver” | died of cancer in jail in 2001 | ||
Rene Enriquez | California | Murder | Jailed | |
aka “Boxer” | Has since quit the gang and incriminated | |||
(aged 43 in 2005) | several of them (is therefore on their death list) | |||
Has 500 members and | Ruben Ramirez Lopez | ditto | Missing. Wanted for | |
1,000 associates | conspiracy to murder in | |||
David Ramirez Lopez | San Jose, California | San Jose | ||
Went to war with La | ||||
Nuestra Familia in 1975 | Mikhail Markasev | LA | Jailed for life for murder | |
but declared a ceasefire | of Bill Cosby’s son | |||
in early 1990s | ||||
Ruben Hernandez | Ontario, California | ditto | Now in Pelican Bay. | |
aka “Tupi” | Fell out with “Topo” and | |||
was stabbed by him in | ||||
One of the leaders | 1997 | |||
Robert Salas, | California | ditto | Killed in December | |
aka “Robot” | 2004 (mysterious circumstances) | |||
Was responsible for starting | ||||
wars with La Nuestra Familia | ||||
Raymond Shyrock | California | ditto | Prominent since 1978. | |
aka “Huero Shy” | Jailed for life in 1997. | |||
Jimmy Sanchez, 41 | LA | ditto | Convicted of racketeering | |
aka “Smokey” | and narcotics | |||
(Suzanne Schoenberg, wife) | Convicted also | |||
Victor Murillo | LA | Acquitted of RICO | ||
Homosexuality, cowardice, | charges in 1997 | |||
Christianity and stirring | ||||
up dissension are | Mariano “Chuy” | San Diego/LA | ditto | Convicted in Feb 2001 |
punishable by beatings or | Martinez, 42. | of murdering a rival | ||
death | outside an auto repair shop | |||
in Montebello in 1998 | ||||
Faces death penalty | ||||
Frank Macias | San Diego | ditto | Boss of San Diego. | |
Madriaga, aka | Now in Leavenworth | |||
“Chino” | (convicted of racketeering in 2000) | |||
Juan”Topo”Garcia,39 | S California | Convicted of racketeering | ||
in October 2000 | ||||
20-Life | ||||
Frank “Sapo” | LA | ditto | ||
Fernandez, 53 | Faces 20yrs-Life | |||
Max Torvisco, 24, | LA | Star prosecution witness | ||
aka “Mono” | ||||
Manuel Jackson, 39 | LA (but now in | honorary AB | Indicted in 2002 for | |
aka Cricket, LA | Florence ADX) | associate | killing black inmate in | |
race war | ||||
Rafael Gonzalez- | California prison | ditto | Accused of involvement | |
Munoz, 31, LA | system | in attempted murder | ||
(for AB) | ||||
Texas Syndicate | ||||
Roland Rios | inmate at Coffield | Murdered | ||
unit, nr Palestine, | ||||
Texas | ||||
Los Hermanos de | Texas | Gambling, Protection | ||
Pistoleros Latinos | Rackets, etc | |||
(Brotherhood of Latin | ||||
Gunmen) | ||||
HPL | Antonio Lara, 26 | Coffield Unit, nr | Stabbed Roland Rios | |
Palestine, Texas | (of Texas Syndicate) to | |||
(there are two factions: | death in 2000 after using | |||
16/12 – stands for 16th and | dental floss to cut his | |||
12th letter of alphabet (PL) | way out of cell | |||
; and 45s (after .45 calibre | ||||
pistols) | ||||
Barrio Azteca | ? | El Paso, W. Texas | Drugs, Extortion | Formed around 1990 |
(fierce enemies of La | ||||
Eme, Texas Syndicate etc) | ||||
Black Gangster Family | Craig Petties, 28 | Memphis | Drug dealing | Wanted by US |
aka | (cocaine) | Marshals since 2001. | ||
Black Gangster Disciples | ||||
DC Blacks | ||||
Tongan Crips (Salt Lake City) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5493255/Footage-released-2014-fatal-courtroom-shooting-gang-member.html | ||||
US Biker gangs
Hell’s Angels | Ralph ‘Sonny’ Barger | Arizona | denies | Has served plenty of | The Dirty Dozen (Arizona) |
formed in Oakland, | founder (now living in | any crime | time (once convicted | Hells Henchmen (Illinois) | |
California in 1950s | Cave Creek, Arizona) | links but the | of RICO racketeering) | Saracens (Maine) | |
has 235 | George Christie Jr | Ventura, Calif | Got probation in 2002 | ||
chapters globally | for selling drugs | ||||
(see also | |||||
Scandinavia and UK) | Angels are thought | Ancient Iron (Santa Clara, CA) | |||
Richard Vallee | Montreal | to be big time | Escaped from Canadian | ||
Montreal chapter | dealers in | jail. Wanted for murder | |||
(45 in 2003) | amphetamines | of an informant in | |||
(speed) and other | New York. | ||||
drugs, especially | |||||
on the West Coast. | Captured in Montreal | ||||
On East Coast | in April 2003 | ||||
they are sometimes | |||||
Maurice “Mon” Boucher | used as muscle | Jailed for life in Sep 03 | |||
leader of Angels in | by Mafia. | over biker wars | |||
Canada | |||||
Francis Boucher, his son | Arrested in Nov 02 | ||||
In April 2002 the Angels | |||||
Andre Chouinard, 43 | and the Mongols fought | ||||
a pitched battle in | |||||
Michel Rose | Harrah’s casino in | ||||
Laughlin, Nevada | |||||
Benoit Cliché, 44 | |||||
(Boucher’s lawyer) | |||||
Kenny Bedard | Admitted gangsterism in Nov 02 | ||||
Stephane Jarry | ditto | ||||
Pierre Taupin | ditto | ||||
Aime Simard (born 68) | Helped convict Boucher | ||||
bisexual hitman | but was stabbed 106 | ||||
and police informant | times in jail in | ||||
Saskatchewan in Jul 03 | |||||
Steven Pearce, 49 | Silverdale, | businessman and | One of 42 men indicted | ||
Washington | car dealer | over the Harrah’s brawl (see above) | |||
Calvin Schaefer | ditto | ||||
Outlaws | Harry ‘Taco’ Bowman | Detroit | On FBI’s 10 Most | Thought to have been | |
Formed in McCook, | International President | Wanted list (RICO | behind carbombing of | ||
Illinois but now based | leader of Detroit | violations, murder, | a HA clubhouse in | ||
in Canada | chapter | extortion, drug | Chicago in 1994 | ||
(have 20 chapters in | dealing) | ||||
US cities as well as | (Marijuana, cocaine | ||||
Canada, Europe and | and methamphetamines) | ||||
Australia.) | |||||
Stronghold is Florida | |||||
Pagans | Steve Montevergine | Philadelphia | Drugs, extortion. | In August 1999 he was | |
based on East | aka “Gorilla”, former | (close ties | Muscle | shot six times but | |
Coast | USAF man and | with Philly | survived (could have | ||
Philly policeman | Mob of Joey | been any one of a | |||
(thrown out in 1982) | Merlino) | number of enemies) | |||
Bandidos | ? | Deep South | All the usual | ||
based in Deep South | |||||
(have allies in Europe, | |||||
esp Scandinavia) | |||||
Mongols | California | ditto | |||
(mainly Latino) | (Los Angeles) |
Miscellaneous US gangs
The Corporation | Jose Miguel Battle | Miami/ | numbers racket, | (took over mafia |
(Cuban-American) | (ex-policeman in Cuba), | Union City, NJ | extortion (arson), | gambling rackets in |
leader since 1970s | (worth $175m in | drug dealing (cocaine) | NYC in 1970s/80s) | |
aged 74 (in 2004) | 1987) | (the numbers racket | Fled to Peru in 1994 | |
is known as bolita | but remains in control | |||
or “little ball” and ) | Arrested in Miami in | |||
Mar 2004 along with | ||||
also run a casino | 20 other members | |||
in Lima, Peru | (He killed hitman | |||
Ernestico Torres in | ||||
truck hijacking | 1977) | |||
Pedro Battle (brother) | NYC | killed by Cuban | ||
rivals in NYC in 1977 | ||||
Jose Miguel Battle Jr, | NYC | being groomed to | ||
son, 51 | succeed the old man | |||
He was among those | ||||
arrested in Mar 2004 | ||||
Gustavo Battle | Miami | ? | ||
Manuel Isaac Marquez Sr | Miami | Arrested Mar 2004 | ||
Luis Devilliers Sr | Miami | ditto | ||
Luis Devilliers Jr | ||||
Andres Devilliers | ||||
Abraham Rydz | Miami | ditto | ||
Vivian Rydz | ||||
Julio Acuna | Miami | ditto | ||
Orestes Vidan | Miami | ditto | ||
Gumersindo Gonzalez | Miami | ditto | ||
Maurilio Marquez | Miami | ditto | ||
Luis Perez | Miami | ditto | ||
Orlando Cordoves | Miami | ditto | ||
Jorge Davila | ||||
Jose Aluart | ||||
Jorge Nunez | ||||
Norberto Fernandez | ||||
Argelio Jimenez | ||||
Mordehay Tako | ||||
Yoram Itzhak | ||||
Tomas Cabrerizo | ||||
Evelyn Runciman | ||||
Valerio Cerron | ||||
The Greek Mob | Spyredon Velentzas aka | Queens, NYC | loansharking, arcades | Jailed for life in mid- |
(pays tribute to | “The Greek Godfather” | gambling, betting | 1990s for murder of | |
the Lucchese family) | Sammy “The Arab” | |||
Nalo | ||||
Boston Irish Mob | James “Whitey” Bulger | Boston | Betting and | On the run since |
leader | extortion rackets | 1995, when he was | ||
tipped off by an FBI | ||||
(In 2000 police found bodies of Paul McGonagle (a rival) killed | agent (John Connolly) | |||
in 1974, Tommy King (after a fight in 1975) and Deborah Hussey, | of an impending raid | |||
a former girlfriend of Bulger’s associate Flemmi) | ||||
Stephen Flemmi, aka | On the lam | |||
“The Rifleman”, associate | ||||
The El Rukns | Jeff Fort, leader since | Chicago | prostitution, burglary, | Released from jail |
formerly the Blackstone | 1968 | (South Side) | robbery and drug | in 1976 but in 1986 |
Rangers | (gang renamed in 1972, | dealing rackets | he was jailed for 80 | |
(formed in 1960s) | claiming to be Muslim) | years for treason | ||
They are weakened by | (deal with Gaddafi) | |||
recent convictions | ||||
allied gangs are known as People Nation | ||||
Black Gangster Disciples | Chicago | Drugs | serving 150-200 years | |
aka The Folk Nation | Larry Hoover | (now in 35 states) | for murder of rival | |
8,000-20,000 strong | boss | gangster William Young | ||
in 1973 | ||||
(given life in 1997 for | ||||
running drug empire) | ||||
Jerome ‘Shorty’ Freeman | Chicago | Jailed for 28 years in | ||
right-hand man | 1990 (still active) | |||
Hell’s Kitchen Irish Mob | NYC | drugs and | Jailed for 75 years | |
(founded by Owney | Jimmy Coonan, revived | (Hell’s Kitchen) | legitimate business | in 1988 (RICO) |
Madden in 1920s) | the gang in 1970s | (Marine Construction) | ||
aka The Westies | ||||
Bosco Rondonovich, | ditto | Labour racketeering | In 1992 he was | |
has been leader since | indicted for labour | |||
1988 | racketeering and fled | |||
to Yugoslavia | ||||
The Nauti Bloc | Tyrone Gomes, 31, of Hyannis, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Patti B. Saris to 20 years in prison and eight years of supervised release. On April 5, 2017, Gomes pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, possession of heroin with the intent to distribute, and conspiracy to distribute suboxone.
In October 2015, federal investigators determined that Gomes, Denzel Chisholm – the Nauti-Block leader, and other co-conspirators were responsible for a significant quantity of the heroin distributed on Cape Cod. Gomes received large quantities of heroin from Chisholm, which he sold to other drug dealers and individual users. On March 6, 2016, Chisholm arranged to sell Gomes 12 grams of heroin in exchange for cash and 10 suboxone strips. The suboxone was ultimately destined for Browning Mejia, an inmate at MCI-Norfolk and an associate of Chisholm. As a result of the investigation, agents were able to stop Gomes’ vehicle and recover 12 grams of heroin from Gomes. In April 2016, 13 members and affiliates of the Nauti-Block gang were charged with federal drug trafficking and firearms offenses. |
Hyannis (Cape Cod) Massachusetts |
VIETNAM
Nam Cam’s gang | Nam Cam, aged 57 | Ho Chi Minh City | Executed in 2004 after being convicted of murder (of rival Dung Ha) and bribery. | ||||
(aka Truong Van Cam) | |||||||
——- | ———– | ————- | ———– | ||||
PHILIPPINES | 154 of his men were also jailed (including the former head of state radio who accepted a bribe)
The Bahala Na Gang was founded in Manila, Philippines by Divino Talastas. In the 1950s the gang has developed a rivalry with the Zadista Gang. As years passed the BNG spread throughout the Philippines Islands and eventually to the US. Divino died in the early 1980s when he was abducted, and his body was later found inside a sack floating in a river. The Bahala Na Gang is now endemic in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco as well as Las Vegas. Older hardcore members are in their 50s. Younger ambitious members are used to back up the drug trafficking and weapon trafficking operations of the gang bosses. They are involved in drug and weapon trafficking rings, murder, robbery and kidnapping. |
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My email: arielacohen99@gmail.com. Please read: lacreusehostsevilcult.blogspot.com for information about the predatory paedophile Godson Cult I have been investigating for one year. The cult is presently settled in Benevent l’Abbaye, France, and has been implicated in criminal activity on three continents. The Godson Cult is particularly dangerous to young families and vulnerable pensioners with money.
NHK world yesterday broadcast an investigation into the “orphanage tourism” of Cambodia and Thailand today and the type of “activities” sponsored by the Godson Cult. The programme highlighted that most of these so called orphanages are run for the financial and sexual benefit of the organisers. The children are exploited and farmed out to tourists in local hotels. The children are very often not orphans but from poor families who believe that their children will receive an education and improved diets. As with the cult led by Chris and ClareGodson there is a sham veil of Evangelical Christianity over the disgusting activities forced upon very young girls. Fund raising is very important to these charity organisers who rarely use the money derived from “orphanage tourism” to help the girls……….other than to buy a pretty dress to showcase the girls to paedophiles. My email: arielacohen99@gmail.com
My email: arielacohen99@gmail.com. I was astonished to discover, in my investigation, that the Godson Cult successfully transported their “creation” of a child brothel to Wicklow in Ireland…….but were forced to flee in 2004 to France. Even in Benevent l’Abbaye they were attempting the same again under the umbrella of an evangelical Christian prayer group…..drawing in vulnerable pilgrims and pensioners with Christian B&B, gites and bogus enterprises.
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