Vigorous activity was launched in the country by organized crime groups in the 90s. Unemployment, a craze for sports, a sharp stratification of society into poor and rich provoked the appearance of various criminal groups and groups. What is organized crime groups? This is what will be discussed in this article.
What is organized crime groups?
The organized crime group is an organized criminal group. The most dangerous type of criminal structure. One form of complicity in the offense. It is recognized by an organized group if the crime was committed by several people who united in advance to commit illegal acts.
For example, theft with the participation of organized crime groups is distinguished by the fact that it is committed according to a previously developed plan, the presence of a leader, as well as a specific task assigned to each participant. Often included in the OPS - an organized criminal community.
There is a hierarchy in all groups, and the head manages several “deputies”, who, in turn, command team leaders, etc. Such a scheme provides good “safety precautions,” because the head knows only his “deputies”. Those, in turn, know only the team leaders who know only the members of their team. Often, ordinary members may not even know other members of the same simple group, not to mention the leader.
Organized crime groups in Russia for the period from 1990 to 2000
The most striking examples of organized crime in Russia came at the end of the twentieth century. The most merciless and authoritative leader of the criminal organized crime group in the nineties was Alexander Matusov, nicknamed Basmach, the leader of the Shchelkovo organized crime group. It was organized in the 1990s in the Shchelkovo region near Moscow and lasted until the 2000s. This group gained its fame due to its cruelty and the number of killings. Allegedly, there are more than 60 deaths on the Schelkovo’s account, including his own accomplices.
Alexander Malyshev — the instigator of the Malyshevskaya organized crime group — began his criminal career under the “roof” of the Tambov group. But already in 1989 he managed to create his own gang. During the existence of the Malyshev group, they often clashed and clashed with the Tambov group. Malyshevskaya organized crime group has created a complex system for laundering money obtained illegally.
Tambovskaya is one of the most powerful and authoritative groups operating in St. Petersburg. She showed what an organized crime group really is. Founded by Vladimir Barsukov and Valery Ledovsky. The criminal organized crime group operated from the 1990s and up to the 2000s. The group began with racketeering, and after almost all the gang members were arrested for extortion. Having been released, they returned to illegal activities. It was at this time that the Tambov organized crime group flourished, which conducted business in a wide variety of fields, from the carting business to the import and export of wood and machinery. But in the 2000s, leader Vladimir Barsukov was convicted and sentenced to 23 years in a maximum security colony.
What is organized crime in modern times?
The groups no longer act as bloodthirsty and so openly as they did in the "dashing 90s." They began to carry out illegal fraud, covering them with various kinds of business and entrepreneurial activity. A modern organized criminal group can exist only at the expense of corrupt authorities. This greatly complicates the fight against illegal activities, because the government will never be able to give more money than organized crime groups.
The main ways to combat organized crime
The fight against organized crime requires a number of measures for corporate and preventive measures.Then follows the Elimination of the main criminal groups with the subsequent liquidation of damage from their activities. The next step will be to limit the factors behind the emergence of organized crime, making it difficult to create new ones and engage in existing gangs and groups and reduce the zone of influence of organized crime groups. In addition to investigating the crimes committed and identifying the perpetrators, it is also necessary to establish the identity of the leaders of the criminal groups and bring them to justice, for this other members of the group are often used, who in exchange for cooperation mitigate the punishment.
After organized crime has been eliminated, a series of preventive measures should be taken to prevent the possibility of the re-emergence and activities of criminal groups. These measures are implemented through social and special approaches.