Criminal Networks

RUSSIA Moscow, RUSSIA UK. New York City US.A. Maribor, SLOVENIA Boston Kabul. AFGHANISTAN Kandahar, APGHANISTAN Burgas, BULGARIA BOSNIA Virginia Beach Baghdad, IRAQ N. KOREA LIBYA S. KOREA TAJIKISTAN Sharjah, U.A.E. CHINA Tokyo, JAPAN - U.S.A SIERRA LEONE - TAIWAN San TOGO Monrovin, LIBERIA Diego COLOMBIA THAILAND PHILIPPINES Hawaii Kisangani, DEM. REP. OF CONGO Kigali, RWANDA ANGOLA Lake Tanganyika Cocaine Coltan Diamonds Child soldiers Diamonds AUSTRALIA Weapons Cash VIKTOR BOUT Weapons Hockey players Prostitutes CHARLES McARTHUR GHANKAY TAYLOR I The world's most notorious arms dealer, Bout is widely known as the "Merchant of I One of West Africa's most bloodthirsty war- lords, Taylor in 2009 is scheduled to defend himself from charges of killings, mutilations, rape, other forms of sexual violence, sexual slavery, recruiting and using child soldiers, abduction, and using forced labor, at the Special Court for Cash Heroin Methamphetamine Nulcear material S Pornography Prostitutes Weaposs Death"; he served as inspira- RUSSIAN MOB tion for the title character in Andrew Niccol's 2005 film, Lord of War. Exotic animals Luxury autos After the fall of the Soviet I Fluent in Russian, French, Spanish, Arabie, English, and near-fluent in Portuguese, German, Farsi, Urdu, Xhosa, and Zulu. YAKUZA Union in 1991, the Russian mob flourished, deeply involving itself in prostitution, drug trafficking, sexual slavery, extortion, and political corruption. Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands. I Doped his legions of child soldiers, called "Small Boy Units," with insufflated cxcktails of cocaine, gunpowder, and amphetamines before attacks. I Members of the Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, consider themselves modern-day descendants IAccumulated, over 17 years, a private air force as large as that of many NATO "The bar owners who bought these girls like to keep them nice and quiet. So they buy drugs from some of the U.N. medics to do so. When a girl has finished her shift, she is taken to her room by a bar man and given a shot. When she wakes up she is ready for her next shift." of samurai. I Sold Al Qaeda $20 million in diamonds in 1998. countries. I"[Taylor] said we should eat them. Even the U. N. white people-he said we could use them as pork to eat." I Yakuza gangsters provide kidnapped women with short, pleated skirts, and knee socks to cater to the "schoolgirl" sex market. I Has received as much as 860 million to ferry supplies to American forces in Iraq. - Joseph "Zigzag" Marzah, Taylor's former death squad commander I There are 110,000 active members of the Yakuza, divided into 2,500 famillies. - Anonymous aid worker, 2006 I Urwanted Chinese boys feteh $5,000 on the Tokyo black market. Cash Emeralds Fish Prison break Cash Drugs