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RUSSIAN MOB
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vs.   A.R.L.I.

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"It is truly impossible in many instances to differentiate between Russian organized  crime and the Russian state"

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"Russian organized crime can use its resources to corrupt institutions here in the United States. The recent case involving the Bank of New York may prove to be one such example.

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"Organized crime shaped the post communist Russian banking industry and now manages it."

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"Russia is the biggest mafia state in the world, the super power of crime that is devouring the state from top to bottom."

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"While the U.S. and the West were bailing out Russia's economy with money from the IMF and the World Bank, 700 Russian officials were reaping the financial benefits of insider trading..."


Dick Armey
House Majority Leader

"A substantial portion of the American taxpayer money to the IMF may now be financing the lavish lifestyles of Russian oligarchs"


Did the NY Times reporter who broke the Bank of New York story, become a patsy for Russian mob? True Story Behind O'Brien's Story
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Arthur Christy Inkombank's lawyer
(former US Attorney)
U.S. LAWYERS HIRED AS SPIN DOCTORS FOR RUSSIAN MOB

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RUSSIA'S ROAD TO CORRUPTION Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia

American Russian Law Institute
A not-for-profit tax exempt public policy research and advisory organization
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http://www.rferl.org/corruptionwatch/ 

RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME

"Russian organized crime presents the greatest long-term threat to the security of the United States... The United States is presented with a well-organized, well-funded, sophisticated and brutal conspiracy."
FBI Director Louis Freeh

 


RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES

          A characteristic even more defining of Russian organized crime in the United States than its violence is the predominant nature of its criminal activity. ... Russian criminals have been implicated in numerous murders, attempted murders, assaults and extortion. As evidence of their intimidation effect, witnesses to crimes often could not be found, or both witnesses and victims refused to cooperate in investigations.

Russian Organized Crime CSIS 1997


 

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME AND GLOBAL TERRORISM. US House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. December 13, 2000

 

Testimony of Ralf Mutschke, Assistant Director, Criminal Intelligence Directorate International Criminal Police Organization - Interpol General Secretariat

          In recent years, South American drug cartels have been forming alliances with East European/Russian Organized Crime Groups in order to support and diversify their operations. East European groups have offered drug cartels access to sophisticated weapons that were previously not available. Helicopters, surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, and even submarines are on the drug cartels’ "shopping list."

 

Statement of Donnie R. Marshall, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration

          Another possible tie between drug trafficking and terrorism involves Russian Organized Crime... Russian Organized Crime groups are involved in a wide variety of crimes, including drug trafficking to and within the United States.

 


CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON THE BANK OF NEW YORK AND RUSSIAN MONEY LAUNDERING. US House of Representatives. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. International Relations. September 21, 1999

 

Testimony of R. James Woolsey, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

          ... Russian organized crime can use its resources to corrupt institutions here in the United States. The recent case involving the Bank of New York may prove to be one such example.

 

Testimony of James Robinson, Assistant United States Attorney General

          Russian organized crime groups have seized upon the opportunities offered by Russia's brand of "Wild West" capitalism, and they have in some cases forged close ties with corrupt Russian businessmen. In addition, organized crime groups in Russia have been implicated in the corruption of current and former Russian government officials, a problem that is certainly not unique to Russia but that appears to be a serious problem there. Russian organized crime groups provide corrupt businessmen and government officials with protection, muscle, assassination teams and lines of communication to other groups of criminals, government officials and businessmen.

 

Testimony of Richard L. Palmer, former CIA Station Chief

          There is one consistent thread throughout these steps in looting the state. The goal was to take the money outside of Russia and keep it there, safe from any threats of retrieval attempts by subsequent Russian governments. The Western banking system has provided the network with which to move these funds.

 

Testimony of Louise Shelley, Professor, The American University

          ... because Russian organized crime is a trans-national phenomenon, its intimidation, or let us say the authoritarianism that is associated with it, is not confined entirely within the borders of the former Soviet Union, but results in intimidation of citizens abroad and intimidation of foreign newspapers that try to publish articles that reveal and expose problems of organized crime abroad.

 


CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON THE THREAT FROM INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME AND GLOBAL TERRORISM. US House of Representatives. Committee on International Relations. October 1, 1997.

 

Testimony of Arnaud de Borchgrave Director, Global Organized Crime Project Institute for Strategic and International Studies

          Three years ago, President Yeltsin called his country, the Russian Federation, with 150 million people and over 20,000 nuclear warheads, "the biggest mafia state in the world... the superpower of crime that is devouring the state from top to bottom." The situation has not improved since then.

 

Testimony of Louis J. Freeh, Director of Federal Bureau of Investigations

          The size of [the ROC] problem is really immense. We have, for instance, in the United States approximately 24 organized crime families, traditional La Cosa Nostra families, that we have identified, which are composed of about 2,000 active members. The Russian Ministry of the Interior has estimated that with respect to Russian organized crime groups, they number 5,000 to 8,000 groups; some 100,000 members. Thirty of those groups are active in other countries, including the United States.

 

 
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