Top 10 Most Dangerous Mafias in The World

10. Russian Mafia

The Russian mafia is perhaps the most dangerous. It originated in the former Soviet Union and now it has influence all over the world. It has between 100,000 to 500,000 members. They are involved in organized crimes in countries. Israel, Hungary, Spain, Canada, UK, USA and Russia are the name of few countries affected by the crimes or Russian Mafia.
In modern times, there are as many as 6,000 different groups,with more than 200 of them having a global reach. Criminals of these various groups are either former prison members, corrupt officials and business leaders, people with ethnic ties, or people from the same region with shared criminal experiences and lead. However, the existence of such groups has been debated. In December 2009, Timur Lakhonin, the head of the Russian National Central Bureau of Interpol, stated "Certainly, there is crime involving our former compatriots abroad, but there is no data suggesting that an organized structure of criminal groups comprising former Russians exists abroad",while in August 2010, Alain Bauer, a French criminologist, said that it "is one of the best structured criminal organizations in Europe, with a quasi-military operation.








9. The Sicilian Mafia: Cosa Nostra

The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia or Cosa Nostra ("Our Thing"), is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organisational structure and code of conduct. The basic group is known as a "family", "clan", or "cosca".Each family claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighbourhood (borgata) of a larger city, in which it operates its rackets. Its members call themselves "men of honour", although the public often refers to them as "mafiosi". The mafia's core activities are protection racketeering, the arbitration of disputes between criminals, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements and transactions.
Besides the official members, there are members who are not true members. An official member will have to undergo the initiation ceremony, which will probably have to kill someone to prove their worth. Each member will have to follow the code of silence, on the pain of death.












8. Colombian Mafia

The Colombian mafia is basically formed by drug cartels. They operate in many countries and have organizations that deal with political, military and legal cartels. The important cartels from Colombia are the Cartel de Cali, Medellin and Norte del Valle.There was a time that cartels were threatened by the extradition treaty between the US and Colombia. The leaders went into hiding and ordered the members of the mafia kill anyone who supported the treaty. They are also involved in a series of kidnappings and terrorism.The Colombian mafia is on 8th position in Most dangerous Mafias in the world.








7. Chinese Mafia: Triad

The Triad consists of many criminal organizations which are based in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and among various other countries. Apart from the China, they are also active on American soil. They have strong networks in the cities like New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver and San Francisco.
Chu's Triads as business (2001) presents a thorough examination of the rise of Hong Kong triad and the role of triad societies in legal, illegal and international markets. Wang's The Chinese Mafia (2017)studies the origin of Chinese secret societies in ancient China, explores the rise of organized crime in post-Mao China, and investigates the ways in which local gangs offer quasi law enforcement and private protection to local governments, corporations and individuals. The Chinese Mafia also explores how local gangs form mutually beneficial networks with police officers and how the formation of the political-criminal nexus enables local gangs to control illegal markets and sell protection to legitimate entities.








6. The Japanese Mafia: Yakuza

Yakuza (Japanese: ヤクザ, [jaꜜkɯza]), also known as gokudō (極道, "the ultimate path"), are members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan (暴力団, "violent groups"), while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" (任侠団体 or 仁侠団体, "chivalrous organizations"). The yakuza are notorious for their strict codes of conduct and organized fiefdom-nature. They have a large presence in the Japanese media and operate internationally with an estimated 102,000 members.
They are involved in forced protection rackets, illegal importation of uncensored pornography from Europe and USA, houses of prostitution and illegal immigration.

5. The Mexican Mafia

The Mexican Mafia (Spanish: Mafia Mexicana), also known as La eMe (Spanish for "the M"), is a highly organized Mexican American criminal organization in the United States.Despite its name, the Mexican Mafia did not originate in Mexico, and is entirely a U.S. criminal prison organization. Sureños, including MS-13 is a Mexican gange. and Florencia 13,use the number 13 to show allegiance to the Mexican Mafia. M is the 13th letter of the alphabet. Law enforcement officials report that La eMe is the most powerful gang within the California prison system.Government officials state that there are currently 155–300 official members of the Mexican Mafia with around 990 associates who assist La eMe in carrying out its illegal activities in the hopes of becoming full members.








4. The Israeli mafia

The Israeli mafia is the general term for organized crime groups operating in Israel and also internationally. Allegedly there are 16 crime families operating in Israel, five major groups active on the national level, and 11 smaller organizations. There are reputed to be six Maghrebi Jewish crime families active and three Arab crime families.Many heads and members of the crime groups have either been killed or are in prison.The Russian-Israeli Mafia has infiltrated the US political system so well that the US forces are failing to make any significant progress in stopping them.









3. The Serbian mafia

Serbian Organized Crime (Serbian: Cpпска мафија/Srpska mafija, Serbian Mafia) are various criminal organizations based in Serbia or composed of ethnic Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. The organizations are primarily involved in smuggling, arms trafficking, heists, drug trafficking, protection rackets and illegal gambling. The mafia is composed of several major organized groups, which in turn have wider networks throughout Europe.








2. The Albanian mafia

The Albanian Mafia or Albanian organized crime (Albanian: Mafia Shqiptare) are the general terms used for criminal organizations based in Albania or composed of ethnic Albanians. Albanian organized crime is highly active in Europe, North America, South America, and various other parts of the world including the Middle East and Asia. The Albanian Mafia participates in a diverse range of criminal enterprises including trafficking in drugs, arms, humans, and human organs. The Albanian criminal scenario is characterized by diversified criminal plans which, in their complexity, show one of the highest criminal capacities in the world. In Albania alone, there are over 15 mafia families that control organized crime. According to Wikileaks reports, the Albanian mafia has monopolized various international affiliations from as far east as Israel, to as far west as South America. These reports primarily indicate a strong connection between politicians and various Albanian mafia families. According to the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS), Albanian mafia groups are actually hybrid organizations (various sectors of society), often involved in both criminal and political activities.








1. Jamaican: The Yardie British

The Yardies group was formed by the Jamaicans who immigrated to Britain in 1950. They created violent gangs and called themselves Yardies. They are operating trafficking in drugs and arms. As no attempt to infiltrate the politics, they are not considered as strong as other mafia groups.However, especially outside of Jamaica, "yardies" or "the Yardies" usually specifically refers to Jamaican gangs or organized crime groups and gangsters of Jamaican origin, nationality, or ethnicity. The term is often used interchangeably with the term "posse" or "Jamaican posse" to refer to crime groups of Jamaican origin, with the term "Posse" used more frequently in Jamaica, the United States, and Canada to refer to Jamaican, Jamaican-American, and Jamaican-Canadian crime groups, and "Yardies" being deployed more frequently in the United Kingdom.Yardie gangs or "posses" are involved in a wide array of criminal activity depending on their location, ranging from political corruption, political violence, and assassination in Jamaica to drug trafficking and gang violence in the U.S., Canada, and U.K.