| From: | "Fisher, Victor" <Victor-Fisher@******.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Golden Opportunities... |
| Date: | Sat, 24 May 1997 15:00:14 -0400 |
Britian, so I thought I'd post it here, for those guys, if they were
thinking of dealing with the criminal element in trying to move their
'ill-gotten spoils'. It's as told by a 'native'.
>
Org crime over here hasn't ever been established on a national
>scale, like other places. Sure, there are some powerful groups about, but no
>one has been able to lord it over a wide area.
> The Yaks have a pretty small presence over here [there's only 'bout
>70,000 in the whole country]. They ignored Britain for so many years, when
>all the changes started to come down, it was too late for them to get
>anything more than a toe hold. They mostly make alliances with the home grown
>crime families, backing 'em with money, and support overseas.
> The Mafia [the Italians, anyway] made the same mistake as the Yaks. To
>them , the place was just an off-shore dumping ground for drugs they couldn't
>push on the Mainland.
>Now, with a lot of 'biz being routed thru Britain, they've been forced to
>make some alliances, again with the locals, to help with their distribution
>network, cause they don't have any apparatus set up here. I think a handful
>of them try importing chips and other stuff into Britain on their own, but
>they ain't got no muscle or organized families here.
> Probably some of the bigger crime families are the Triads, and the
>Asiatics [you know, Pakies, Indies, etc.]. The Triads tend to be dominant up
>in Nottingham and Manchester, but they got a pretty noticible footprint over
>in Liverpool/Merseysprawl, and here in the Smoke [after Hong Kong went over
>in the last century, this is where most of 'em settled].The Asiatics are
>about on a par with the big gangs, and spread out mostly from the mid of the
>country, down to London.
> The Russians? Well, I heard they were here, abouts, but that's about
>all.
> Then, there's the homegrown boys; some of 'em like to be referred to as
>The Firm. Pretty much a bunch of individual families, with everybody trying
>to scrabble on top. They're pretty strong in their own territories, but kinda
>weak elsewhere. About the one thing that unites them is their hate for any
>criminal business in the U.K. that's run by foreigners
>[No Yaks or Maf working over here without a Union Card, you might say!]. Some
>of the more desperate bosses have taken to making alliances with those boys
>overseas; they take care of their businesses over here, and the Yaks or Maf
>deal with it elsewhere. One or two times it's blown up in everyone
>'s faces, but other than that, it's business as usual.
> You know what they say; Crime is Britian's fastest growing industry
>[Crime is Britain's ONLY growing industry!].
So sayeth Tink :-]
>
