flame_guards_member1 wrote:Hmm let me rearrange the list.
1. Russian Mafia - 3 million members in Russia alone, not to mention over 10,000 groups worldwide.
2. Traids - Debatable. Goes from 100,000 to millions. But all I can say is they're the oldest. 2000+ years.
3. Yakuza - From 10,000 to over 500,000. This is also debatable. Too much publicity.
4. Italian Mafia - 25,000 members, 250,000 associates, one of the biggest, richest, most powerful but weakening.
5. Albanians/Columbians - Albanians got UCK as their backup which consists of 50,000+ personell military force. Columbians got FARC and gurillas and also control most of the world's drugs.
Most profitable - Russian Mafia - The fact that they are able to launder over 250 billion dollars out of their 400 banks in Russia alone annually is only that. Imagine their profit must be over a trillion dollars annually. They're the fastest growing too. They will probably be the next Italian Mafia of the 20th century, and as I quote a book on organized crime groups,
"The gates to a dangerous new world are open. No one will have the resources to stop them. You people in the west don't know our mafia yet, but you will..."
- Boris Urov
All in all, Triads work like a secret society more than organized crime. And China is big enough for that a percentage for a normal large country to have people involved in organized crime, China could have tens of millions. But they're still honest, hardworking people, most of them...
Although, even over the Albanians, who are a bunch of un-educated violent selaci, are nothing compared to the Russians. On the rise, my ass, shiptaria. The Russians control the Russian goverment, meaning they have unlimited resources, aka access to high tech weaponry and nukes etc, unlimited funding, and 1 trillion dollars a year a hell of a good thing.
But, no matter if if I don't like it, they form alliances with other crime syndicates so there is no warfare, but for temporary time and over minor deals, otherwise a multi billion dollar organized crime activity which is run by another mafia must be taken over to feed its own appitite, which cause warfare.
And as everyone knows, whoever it is and how powerful maybe, Russian mobsters will never backdown. If they're outnumbered, simple, they'll send for help. I've always had a vision in my mind of the urban brawls that include 100 vs 100 fights, where a 100 person group of gang members waiting for a fight suddenly find out that they're incoming enemy(Russians), is not another 100 person team, but more 20 tanks a 10 helicopters, as well as 100 well armed troops. This is a good thing to witness. Epic.
Hrhrhr...
You want info, google it. It's the best way. Here's a legal link:
http://movieforumz.com/showthread.php?t=64602
Gonna watch this now.
so the russian population is 141,377,752 exactly but they have 3 million members in the mafia? so 1 out of every 50 people in russia are in the mafia? im sure.
the triads are in a range from 100,000 to millions? haha, if these statistics were true then china would be totally controlled by the triads. russia would be totally under control of the mob.
today for today the colombian cartels are the most powerful, i dont care what anyone says. pablo escobar built his own jail when he was sentenced and it was more a hotel than a jail. thats real fcuking power.
that little poem you read is pretty funny because the russian mafia is in the west already, they're in new york and in philadelphia along with los angelos and miami. but they dont make any real impact unless they're in the movies.
"The gates to a dangerous new world are open. No one will have the resources to stop them. You people in the west don't know our mafia yet, but you will..."
- Boris Urov
^^^ i cant talk about russia or china because i never lived or read about those countries and their crime problems but all i know in the west (New York) Italians and Albanians are the only ones doing something in the criminal world, but the italians are weakening incredibly. russians are doing something in philadelphia but thats about it russian lover.
colombian cartels are at #1 in todays world, the statistics this man gave us is dreamable but not real.