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Over 800 ethnic gang crimes investigated in Moscow in 2013 - official

16:04 23/08/2013 Crimes committed in Moscow by members of gangs organized either abroad or within Russia's own ethnic minority communities have skyrocketed, Moscow Police Chief Anatoly Yakunin announced Friday.

Russian police smash 20-year old drug and murder gang

14:28 06/08/2013 Russian investigators said Tuesday they have charged the members a St. Petersburg crime gang suspected of carrying out a string of murders and smuggling drugs during the country’s turbulent 1990s.

Defendant in Taiwanchik's US organized-crime case granted permission to gamble

14:35 29/07/2013 A defendant in a high-profile US criminal case targeting Russian-American organized crime was granted permission to gamble in accordance with a request filed by his attorneys with a federal court in New York last week seeking a series of modifications to his bail conditions, including permission to gamble.

Europol says "Russian mafia" involved in football match-fixing

12:32 29/07/2013 European law enforcement agency Europol will conduct an investigation to determine the scale of the involvement of Russian organized crime in football match-fixing.

Russian police thwart Georgian mobster's wedding

11:02 22/07/2013 A crime boss of Georgian origin has been detained in central Russia about a week before he planned to get married, the local Interior Ministry said Monday.

Yakuza boss faces unprecedented compensation claim

13:13 17/07/2013 A former restaurant owner from Nagoya filed the first civil lawsuit in Japan’s history against the boss of the country’s largest Yakuza syndicate “Yamaguchi-gumi”. Boss Kenichi Shinoda now faces a claim demanding full compensation for money allegedly extorted by his cohorts under threats of violence.

Estonia to revoke alleged Russian crime boss' residence permit - report

13:14 04/06/2013 The Estonian authorities have launched a procedure to revoke the residence permit earlier issued to Alexander Kharkovsky, an alleged Russian criminal boss known as "Grebets" and member of a Vladivostok criminal group in the 1990s.

Institute for Russian Research releases 'Russian Mafia' deck of cards

15:45 13/05/2013 The "Russian Mafia" deck of cards has been released in the United States. Each card features the names and the photographs of individuals who are believed to be major figures in the Russian mob.

'Taiwanchik' among 34 charged in US Russian crime ring

09:49 17/04/2013 US authorities charged 34 people on Tuesday for allegedly being part of a Russian crime ring that investigators said engaged in extortion and money laundering in excess of $100 million, and operated high-stakes poker games in the United States that attracted professional athletes, Hollywood celebrities and Wall Street executives.

Four Belarusian crime lords detained in Russia

12:39 22/03/2013 Four Belarusian crime lords have been detained in Russia, the Belarusian Interior Ministry announced in a statement. "The operation to detain these crime lords was planned after they were crowned at a meeting of criminals in the United Arab Emirates," the statement reads.

Spanish officials accused of collaborating with Russian mob

12:54 13/03/2013 Several employees of a travel agency and a construction company in the resort town of Lloret de Mar, Spain, said in court on Tuesday that high-ranking Spanish officials collaborated with the "Russian mafia" and also abused their office.

Russia to back soft power approach to dealing with organized crime

15:48 22/02/2013 Russia will back the use of "soft power" in the fight against organized crime at a UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs meeting in Vienna in March.

Russian police arrest 90 at organized crime gatherings

11:46 19/02/2013 Police in Moscow have detained some 90 people at two meetings of alleged criminal gangs, including one so-called "coronation" of an organized crime boss.

Russians suspected of laundering 56 mln euro detained in Spain

11:39 01/02/2013 The Costa Brava police have detained several high-ranking Spanish officials and suspected members of a Russian criminal group as part of Operation Clotilde.

Notorious gangster sentenced to 23 years for 11 counts of murder

14:43 30/01/2013 The Moscow City Court sentenced Marat Polyansky, a member of two infamous crime rings, to 23 years in prison, after finding him guilty of 11 counts of murder.

Lloret de Mar deputy mayor arrested for alleged links with 'Russian mafia'

16:48 29/01/2013 Josep Valls, the deputy mayor of the Spanish city of Lloret de Mar, has been arrested on Tuesday morning for money laundering and having connections with the Russian mafia.

Slain Moscow crime boss’ criminal fraternity has ties to US

13:08 23/01/2013 Reputed crime kingpin Aslan Usoyan gained notoriety as a Russia-based mob boss before he was assassinated by a sniper in central Moscow last week, but his brethren in a legendary Eurasian criminal fraternity have been dipping their elaborately tattooed fingers in the US underworld for decades, RIA Novosti reported.

Russian top criminal boss killed by sniper in downtown Moscow

17:52 17/01/2013 Law enforcement officers are looking for a sharpshooter who killed criminal boss Aslan Usoyan in central Moscow on Wednesday.

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