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Organized crime is big business, and like many other businesses during the past century, it has gone global. While the Mafia remains the most familiar and best-established crime group in the , dozens of similar outfits exist in nations around the world. They observe their own criminal traditions and practices and pursue their illegal interests through the network of the international underworld. Drug trade, human trafficking, illegal arms sales, corruption of governments- these are the signature endeavours of outlaw groups that subvert the law on every continent and operate by codes of violence and dishonesty. Until now, these criminals have derived strength from operating in the shadows.
This is a landmark reference book that collects information gathered from source around the global and uses it to expose the insidious presence of criminal enterprises in every part of the world. Among the most notorious crime leaders, many not well known in the despite the long reach of their influence, are
Abdullah Catli, Turkish crime lord whose corruption of high-ranking government officials created a crisis in
Monya Elson, reputed boss of Russian crime groups based in , involved in counterfeiting, drug trafficking, and other crimes
Pablo Escober, infamous Colombian drug lord, hunted down and killed after defying law-enforcement efforts by both the and Colombian governments
Dawood Ibrahim, based in , one of the most powerful crime lords on the Indian subcontinent and mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai () bombings in
Kazu Taoka, boss of the most powerful Yakuza family in , the Yamaguchigumi, who died of a heart attack in 1981ISBN - 9788130902746
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Pages : 386
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