Four reputed Russian mobsters have been charged by Switzerland’s attorney general for their alleged roles in running "a Europe-wide organized crime ring whose members are believed to be behind a wave of burglaries and shoplifting in the Alpine nation" and 30 others in the transnational organization are being investigated. The investigation began in 2009,...

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Nearly five years ago, underworld kingpin Yuri “the Russian” Ulianitski was assassinated in Milnerton and not one arrest has been made in the case. Now Ulianitski’s closest friend has broken his silence, detailing how Ulianitski rose to power in the city’s underworld, leading to lasting divisions and an ongoing battle for control of resources....

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Estonian national security officer, Indrek Põder, currently facing bribery charges is suspected of conspiring with a Russian organized crime network, the Latvian interior minister told the press. Latvian authorities are cooperating with Estonia in the investigation, which may involve a money laundering operation, according to minister Rihards Kozlovskis, reported Telegraf.lv. The recently arrested Põder,...

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Spanish authorities on Thursday ordered the extradition of suspected Georgian mafia boss Kakhaber Shushanashvili, 39, who was captured in an international sweep in 2010. Shushanashvili, 39, who was arrested as part of an international operation that led to the arrests of dozens of suspected Russian-Georgian mafia figures will be sent to Georgia following a...

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Lennar Corp.’s title underwriter, which has operations in Dallas, faces possible disciplinary action after one of its escrow officers was accused in a lawsuit of assisting a real estate investment scheme controlled by the Russian mob. A public hearing before an administrative law judge is scheduled for Feb. 14 in a case in which...

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Complete with posh statues, upholstered sofas and parquet floors the three-story 4.5 million-euro mansion of a former Russian-Georgian mafia boss in Barcelona also contains traces of the raid when police tried to capture its then occupant, mafia ‘thief in law’ Tariel Oniani, six years ago. He is reportedly a member of the "Kutaisi" criminal...

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