Politicalization of the Russian Mafia The Mafia is a social cancer in Russia.

In the late Soviet Union in the late 1980s, organized criminal gangs appeared in some Russian cities.

Since then, the concept of mafia has gradually entered the daily life of Soviet people.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, taking advantage of the social transformation, the Russian mafia proliferated and spread, including assassinations, robberies, smuggling, drug trafficking, collecting protection fees, and human trafficking. They were notorious and notorious. They even openly confronted society and carried out various blatant activities.

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It is not difficult to see that after accumulating a large amount of wealth, the Russian mafia has begun to infiltrate into the country's political and economic fields. They are not even satisfied with obtaining political power through bribery, bribery, etc., but instead want to control the country's economic lifeline and influence the country.

domestic and foreign policy.

The terrorist activities are shocking. In the past two months, the Russian mafia has been very violent.

At about 10 p.m. on March 31, the Volga car in which the mayor of Moscow's Sasishev District and his wife were riding suddenly exploded while driving.

The couple were killed on the spot, and the bodyguard and driver were seriously injured.

According to a witness at the scene of the incident, he saw a man use a portable rocket launcher to fire a rocket at the moving Volga car and then escape after blowing up the car.

On the same day, Batuev, a reporter for the Moscow News weekly, was killed in his Moscow apartment.

According to reports, Batuyev, a journalist famous for reporting on the Chechen war, was injured by a sharp weapon and died of suffocation.

Late at night on March 27, two unidentified persons opened fire on a cafe in the center of Irkutsk with automatic rifles, killing one and injuring four.

The Russian Interfax news agency reported that except for a 20-year-old woman, the five dead and injured were all Azerbaijanis.

According to Russian media speculation, although the above-mentioned cases have not yet been solved, it can be preliminarily determined that the case is not a simple criminal case.

Judging from the identities of the victims and the circumstances of the crime scenes, these murder cases have obvious political motives and underworld backgrounds.

Russian media and officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs disclosed the terrorist and criminal activities carried out by the Mafia in various parts of Russia in recent years.

According to statistics, hundreds of murders operated by the mafia have occurred in St. Petersburg in recent years. The victims include wealthy food businessmen, well-known oil tycoons or prominent political figures.

Many murders occur in broad daylight.

For example, in St. Petersburg in 1996, an oil company manager was killed by a grenade fired from a grenade on a crowded street; in the summer of 1997, a deputy mayor was killed by a sniper; in the autumn of 1998, a

A female congressman was beaten to death in the corridor by two killers; in October of the same year, a city council member was killed in his car.

The Russian sports world has also become the target of blackmail by the underworld. Some sports figures died tragically at the hands of the mafia: among them, Russian heavyweight boxer Kobozev, Russia's most famous Spartak football club business director Nechayeva, Russian ice hockey

Seqi, the head of the association.

In addition, many members of the Russian State Duma were assassinated, and countless other celebrities from all walks of life were murdered.

The mafia reaches abroad. There are reports that the Russian mafia has become so powerful that it has penetrated abroad.

Russian analysts believe that some Russian mafia organizations have established branches in the United States and have joined forces with criminal gangs in Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, the Middle East and other places to form a huge organized crime network.

Recently, it was reported that the Russian mafia had provided raw materials for weapons of destruction to bin Laden.

According to U.S. intelligence officials, some Russian criminal gangs have sold many small arms to Bin Laden and helped Bin Laden engage in drug trade.

Rumors that the Russian mafia engages in terrorist activities such as kidnapping, extortion, and silencing have been confirmed in the United States.

In late March, FBI officials recovered four bodies from the Melones Reservoir in California. The deceased were three men and one woman. The bodies were sunk to the bottom of the lake.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the victims were wealthy businessmen in Los Angeles and that the kidnappers had demanded a ransom of US$5 million.

Police have arrested four suspected Russian mafia members.

Intending to control the country’s economic lifeline. In recent years, the image of the Russian economic community has been seriously damaged.

When it comes to Russian companies, many people will naturally think of the mafia, capital crime, tax evasion, money laundering and other ugly phenomena.

According to officials from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Russian mafia currently owns tens of thousands of companies, including many large pillar industries such as energy and metals.

In the financial market, many private bank bosses are also involved in the underworld.

In a sense, it is entirely possible that the financial oligarchs controlled by the mafia control Russia's economic lifeline.

It is said that there are currently more than 4,000 mafia gangs in Russia, and the annual profits from their business operations are equivalent to almost half of Russia's gross national product.

The economic activities of the Russian mafia are mainly concentrated in the field of material circulation, smuggling large quantities of raw materials out of the country and smuggling state-owned resources.

Oil, wood, copper, aluminum, nickel, and zinc are all popular "exports".

In addition, the Mafia also smuggles arms, and the weapons illegally sold by it do not rule out the possibility of weapons of mass destruction.

There was a time when the mafia produced large quantities of counterfeit currency and used illegal means to defraud bank loans.

Illegal drug trafficking and money laundering are the Russian mafia's specialties.

Since 1993, the Russian mafia has carried out a large number of money laundering activities through banks in New York, Switzerland and other places, with the annual total amount of money laundering reaching more than 80 billion US dollars.

Wanting to be on the political stage. Some Russian media said that the Russian underworld has even infiltrated the State Duma.