The 4 Top Most Organised Crime Groups In The World

​The most organised crime groups in the world aren’t necessarily into cyber crimes, no, they run their organisation like a ministry. Making sure every detail is taken care of and every tiny offence is dealt with. Loyalty is the key word above all.

So, who are the biggest organized crime gangs around the world and how do they make their money? 

Organized crime wealth are very difficult to estimate, as criminals often spend a significant amount of time trying to hide what they make. Also, “organized crime” can be anything from a vast drug smuggling ring to a handful of car thieves and the branches of organized crime organizations around the world varies widely. Some groups, like Japan’s Yakuza, are highly organized and hierarchical, allowing economists and crime fighters in Japan to attribute much higher revenue totals to Yakuza groups than others around the world. Without much ado,here are the top five criminal gangs, ranked according to their wealth.
1. Solntsevskaya Bratva: $8.5 billion

Russian mafia groups sit on the other side of the organizational “dining” table from Yakuza. Their structure, according to Frederico Varese, a professor of criminology at the University of Oxford and an expert on international organized crime, is highly decentralized. The group is composed of 10 separate “brigades” that operate more or less independently of each other. When the group does pool its resources, the money is overseen by a 12-person council that “meets regularly in different parts of the world, often disguising their meetings as festive occasions.

It’s estimated that the group claims upwards of 9,000 members, and are mainly into drug trading and human trafficking. Russian organized crime in general is heavily involved in the heroin trade that originates inAfghanistan. The reason for their concentration on heroin is that Russia alone consumes about 12% of the world’s heroin before exporting to other neighbouring countries and the rest of the world.

2.Yamaguchi Gumi (Yakuza)—Revenue: $6.6 billion

The largest known gang in the world is called the Yamaguchi Gumi collectively referred to in Japan as “Yakuza,” a term that is roughly equivalent to the American use of “mafia.” The Yamaguchi Gumi make more money from drug trafficking than any other source,according to Hiromitsu Suganuma, Japan’s former national police chief. The next two leading sources of revenue are gambling and extortion, followed closely by “dispute resolution” aka Assassination.

The Yakuza date back hundreds of years, are among the most centralized in the world. While other East Asian gangs like Chinese Triads, which are formed by random criminals bonded together mostly by relations, Yakuza are bound together by “elaborate hierarchies,” let me say that again ELABORATE HIERARCHIES. What this basically means is that you have to come from a rich background.  The group also makes exception for individuals with ‘great potential’.

Once initiated, your smallest finger is cut off as tribute and from then on you must subvert all other allegiances in favour of the Yakuza. Even the Japanese government are scared of arresting gang members.

3. Camorra(Sicilian Mafia)—Revenue: $4.9 billion

Since first becoming well known in the 18th century, organised crime in Italy And its criminal organisations have infiltrated the social and economic life of many regions, particularly in Southern Italy, the most notorious of which is The Sicilian Mafia, which would later expand into some foreign countries, especially the United States.

Based primarily in Sicily, the Mafia were formed in the  groups of bandits which gained local power and we’re feared. In Sicily, the word mafia tends to mean “manly” and a Mafioso considers himself a “Man of Honor.” However, the organisation is known as “Cosa Nostra” which means“Our Thing”or “Our Affair”. The Sicilian Mafia before now were involved in such lower-level activities as extortion, cattle theft till when Sicily become part of a democratic Italy, election slugging in addition to other kinds of relatively low-level theft and fraud.

In the 1950s, Sicily experienced a massive building boom. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Mafia gained control of the building contracts and made millions of dollars which helped them expand to deeper Europe and America.

4.Sinaloa Cartel—Revenue $3 billion

Sianola is Mexico’s largest drug cartel, one of several gangs that has been terrorising the Mexican population. It serves as the “middleman” between South American producers of illegal drugs and the American market. The White House Office of Drug Control Policy estimates that Americans spend $100 billion on illegal drugs each year….EACH YEAR O! And that about $6.5 billion of that reaches Mexican cartels. With an estimated 60% market share, Sinola cartel is raking in approximately $3 billion on a bad year easily.

Despite the fact that the Sinaloa leader was arrested February, the cartel seems to have avoided the sort of chaos and violence that some  groups would usually when a leader is taken out of commission.