Mafia

Informally or generally, a mafia is any of various criminal organizations that include, or bear a strong similarity to, the original Sicilian Mafia, the Italian-American Mafia, or other Italian organized crime groups. The central activity of such an organization would be the arbitration of disputes between criminals, as well as the organization and enforcement of illicit agreements between criminals through violence. Mafias often engage in secondary activities such as gambling, loan sharking, drug trafficking, prostitution, and fraud.

Italian-American criminal organization

criminal organizations based in Albania and Kosovo or composed of ethnic Albanians

term used to indicate a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and developed additional technology companies

state system where the government is tied with organized crime

person in charge of a criminal organization

various criminal organizations

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general term for organized criminal groups based in Turkey

MAFIA group

organized crime

Bulgarian series of organized crime elements

various organized crime elements originating from Greece

prevalent Bosnian criminal organizations and activities

Organized crime groups from Romania

Ecomafia is an Italian neologism for criminal activities related to organized crime which cause damage to the environment. The term was coined by the Italian environmentalist organization Legambiente in 1994 and has since seen widespread use. In Italy, environmental crime is one of the fastest-growing and most profitable forms of criminal activity. As of 2012, an estimated 30% of Italy's waste is disposed of illegally by organized crime syndicates. The United Nations Environment Programme estimated that criminal organizations earned approximately $20–30 billion USD from environmental crimes. A

Term for relative peace in organized crime