Estonian mafia
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| Founded | late 80's |
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| Territory | Estonia |
| Ethnicity | Primarily Estonians, some Russians |
| Criminal activities | Arms trafficking, Assault, Drug trafficking, Extortion, Fraud, Human trafficking, Murder, prostitution, Theft. |
| Allies | Russian Mafia |
Estonian mafia is a loose alliance of Estonian mobster groups, principally of Russian groups ethnic or origins, with a wide range of different rackets. The rackets are prostitution, motorvehicle theft, drug trafficking, and previously also "providing" workers to building contracts in Finland, when the mafia was taking its share of the workers' salaries.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www2.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20020423IE11 Estonia's Obtshak crime organisation a major supplier of Finnish illegal drug market. Helsingin Sanomat 23.4.2002
[edit] Further reading
- Taagepera, Rein. Estonia: Return to Independence. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993. ISBN 0-8133-1703-7
- Volkan, Vamik D. Bloodlines: from ethnic pride to ethnic terrorism. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8133-9038-9
- Constable, Scott. "Christian and Me". ISBN 0 471 91332 4
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