Examples of businesses and recognized organized crime groups working together

🇷🇺 Tambov Gang - In Russia in 2001 Boris Gryzlov, who at the time was the interior minister, made the claim that the Tambov Gang controlled up to 100 industrial enterprises in Saint Petersburg, including the Petersburg Fuel Company and four major sea ports, and in 2007, the prosecutor general of Russia Yury Chaika announced that the Tambov gang had recently taken over over thirteen large enterprises in Saint Petersburg. 

🇷🇺 Dmytro Firtash - Dmytro Firtash is a Ukrainian businessman who has worked as a middleman for the Russian national gas giant Gazprom. He reportedly told a US ambassador that he required permission from Semion Mogilevich in order to do business in Ukraine in the 90s. Firtash himself has been accused of bribery and creating a criminal organisation. 

Russia supplies 30% of Europes gas and the largest pipeline in Europe is called the Bratstvo, (meaning brotherhood) and it's a popular term for organised crime in Russia.

An Israeli Lawyer named Zeev Gordon, who has represented Mogilevich for over 20 years, created Eurotrans gas (ETG) in 2002, and reportedly registered the company in Dmytro Firtash's name. ETG was suspected of being a front for Gazprom, and had bank accounts in Vienna. Afterwards Gazprom and ETG Established RosUkrEnergo (RUE) which was registered in Switzerland Mogilevich was alleged to have been involved in RUE, and by some accounts has been the man in charge. 

🇺🇸 Henry Ford - In the US the famous auto industry tycoon Henry Ford reportedly relied on mafia thugs in order to prevent his employees from forming a labor union, and according to an FBI file, he had links to several organised crime figures of his day. His right hand man, Henry Bennett was also known to be close to the Mafia. 

🇺🇸 Wall street - According to Micheal Franzese who is known as the Yuppie Don and is the alleged former head of the Columbo crime family in New York. The people on Wall street collaborate often with mafia figures.

🇺🇸 Hollywood - Hollywood's connection to organised crime are basically and open secret. In this picture you can see the prominent actor and director, Sean Penn meeting with the Mexican drug lord El Chapo Gooseman.

John Rosselli was an organised crime figure nick named the Henry Kissinger of the mob. He was associated with the Chicago outfit as well as the Italian LA crime family. Rosseli was also connected with major Hollywood figures including alleged connections with frank Sinatra, Donna Reed, Lana Turner and Betty Hutton.

🇺🇸 Corn - The adult film industry has been linked to a scam carried out by members of the Gambino crime family, and there are alleged ties between content being produced and mafia controlled prostitution rings. 

Robert Dibernardo was a subordinate to John Gotti, and was purported to control a large portion of the adult film industry in the US. He was an associate of Ruben Stirman, who was known as the Walt Disney of porn. In this business, Stirman is alleged to have had protection and support from the highest levels of the Cosa Nostra. 

🇮🇹 Vito Nicastri - In Italy, it's been said that the mafia is the countries biggest business enterprise, and in recent years, they've also been called Italy's number one bank. In the Italian energy business, Vito Nicastri is known as the lord of the wind. Nicastri has been linked with organised crime figures including Matteo Messina Denaro, who is alleged to be the unchallenged godfather of the Sicilian Mafia after the death of Salvatore Riina in 2017. These links were revealed in an investigation into whether Nicastri was engaged in money laundering. 

Major government subsidies have gone into the wind and Solar industries, which according to Italian prosecutors have been deeply infiltrated by the mafia for years, especially in Sicily. Organised crime is also reportedly in control of Italy's agriculture and food businesses, and allegedly the fake oil scams like the ones revealed in operation muma mia were thought up and executed by organised crime members.

🇩🇪 Germany - In Germany the resources going to the police for the purposes of dealing with organised crime have dramatically decreased in recent years, and few investigations into reported cases of organised crime are undertaken. 

🇩🇪 Deutsche Bank - The Deutsche Bank, a German global banking and financial services company has been implicated in the grand laundry matt scheme, where billions of dollars were laundered out of Latvia. This money is said to have been of criminal origin. 

🇯🇵 Music Industry - In Japan the Yakuza have a great amount of control over the entertainment industry, and many of the major talent agencies are known to be connected with them. This industry is also said to have a strong drug and casting couch culture, similar to Hollywood.

🇯🇵 Susumu Ishii - Susumu Ishii was they head of the Inagawa-kai Yakuza gang, when in 1985 he set up a property development company which became known as the gangs business activities bureau. He bough heavily into blue chip Japanese steel companies like Nippon Steel, Mitsui Metals and Tokyo corp. Other Yakuza gangs are said to have followed his example.

🇯🇵 Itoman - In 1990 it was revealed that Yakuza members were involved in the Itoman trading company. A Korean business man named Ho Yong Chun, who was known to have extensive Yakuza connections, bought a 19% stake in the company. 

🇯🇵 Banks - The three biggest banks in Japan have been investigated over alleged ties to organised crime after Mizuho Financial Group reportedly loaned over 2M dollars to people with Yakuza ties. This led to the resignation of the chairman of Mizuho, Takashi Sugimoto.

🇯🇵 Fukushima - The cleanup of the Fukushima Daiichi after the 2011 tsunamis is alleged by a whistle blower to be managed by a chaotic system of subcontractors with organised crime connections. These subcontractors reportedly often ignore safety rules such as radiation exposure guidelines, and organised crime groups are said to be involved in extortion and blackmail in relation to these operations. 

🇰🇷 Kim Seung-Youn - In South Korea there are a handful of massive industrial conglomerates known as chaebols, with many of them being family run. These families, which are basically Korean nobility are often said to be involved with organised crime groups. As one example Kim Seung-Youn reportedly kidnapped some bar workers with the help of body guards and some organised crime group members and beat them down for having beaten his son's face.

🇰🇷 Samsung - The Chaebol Samsung has be referred to as the main Mafia of south Korea and several Samsung executives have been convicted for bribing members of the government. According to one whistle blower, this company has a 200M dollar slush fund for buying people off. 

🇦🇷 Ibar Pérez Corradi - In Argentina, Ibar Pérez Corradi who has been involved in the pharmaceutical industry, has been extradited to the US and arrested in relation to charges related to Ephedrine trafficking. He has also had a warrant for his arrest issued in connection to the triple crime, which refers to the murder of three men connected to the Argentine Pharmaceutical business. Allegedly, the reason for these killings was to prevent these three from entering the Ephedrine trafficking business. 

🇨🇳 Li Qiang - In China, a man named Li Qiang, who is an alleged crime boss, has been sentenced to 20 years on charges related to running a criminal enterprise and bribing officials during the Chongqing crime trials. He is said to have based his gang around his transportation company Chongqing Yuqiang Group, and had them support his business interests in the outside by doing things like causing traffic jams and putting illegal buses into use in the city in order to dominate the transportation market.

🇨🇳 ICBS - The industrial and commercial bank of China or ICBS has had many senior managers in it's Madrid branch arrested, and Spanish prosecutors have accused the company of being involved in laundering funds from tax fraud and smuggling carried out by criminal organised stations

🇮🇳 Coal Mafia - In India there exists a recognised mafia raj of government officials, business men, NGOs, organised crime and so on. The Indian coal mafia for example has been claimed to exist within the Ministry of Coal by P.C. Parakh, who was at the time the Coal secretary. He has also said that the industry is fully under the control of mafia. 

Suresh Singh is known as the coal king of India, and the head of the coal mafia of Dhanbad, until he was assassinated by gun fire by three men while attending a wedding ceremony, with the assassination being a killing between rival coal clans. 

🇮🇳 Sand Mafia - There is also a sand mafia which is destroying beeches and river heads, along with the livelihoods of people in nearby communities, in order to make money supplying India's construction ministry.

🇧🇷 Odebrecht - Based out fo Brazil, the company Odebrecht is Latin America's biggest construction firm. It is said to have paid out over 800M dollars in bribes between 2001 and 2016. Marcelo Odebrecht, who is the former CEO of Odebrecht, has been sentences to 19 years in prison on charges related to bribery, money laundering and organised crime. 

In 2017 Marcelo, his father and brother were named in the paradise papers, which was a release of confidential documents relating to offshore investments to have used at least one offshore company as a vehicle for paying bribes in connection to Operation Carwash. 

🇧🇷 Operation Carwash - Operation Carwash is an ongoing investigation which started in 2014 to investigate money laundering, but has since already highlighted allegations of corruption at the Brazilian government controlled oil company Petrobras. According to this investigation, a group of Petrobras officials colluded with an organised Cartel of 16 companies to overcharge Petrobras for construction and service work in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, with the bribes said to total up to three billion dollars. People implicated included the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as well as Eduardo Cunha, who was in the government position called president of the lower house and was sentenced to 15 years. After protests, former president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from her position. 

🇬🇧 BAT - Antonio Messicati Vitale is known to be a high ranking member of the Sicilian Mafia, where he is said to be the boss of the Villabate crime family. He is said to have colluded with Zimbabwean businessmen to smuggle half a billion dollars worth of diamonds out of the Chiadzwa mining company. He was also been charged with murder, illegal arms trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, drug dealing and other crimes which he allegedly did through a company called Zimbabwe Diamond Opportunity.

British-American Tobacco (BAT) reportedly claimed in an internal document in 1993 that only 5.4% of their business in China went through legal channels. Allegedly it was the Triads that were behind an operation to smuggle billions of cigarettes into China and Taiwan from Hong Kong Singapore and the Philippines. In 1995 former BAT director Tommy Chiu was killed in a Singapore harbour in what was said to be a triad style, and that an alleged triad member was sentenced to 27 years in connection to this murder. Chiu had spoken to police and claimed that there was high level corruption as BAT, and it is believed that this killing was a message to others who might do the same.

Another company that is said to be at the centre of this operation was the Hong Kong company giant island, which was founded in the mid 80s to export cigarettes. 

🇬🇧 London - The city of London is notorious for money laundering. Even Osei Tutu II, the emperor of Ashanti, who has been called the King of Ghana, has been accused of laundering 350 pounds of cash in the city. 

A bank official named Mark Arthur, who lost his job as a result of these allegations claimed that he was unable to say no because it would offend the King.

According to the national crime agency, hundreds of billions of US dollars of criminal origin will almost certainly continue to be laundered through UK banks.

Several recognised organised crime groups are involved in money laundering in the city of London, and the London property market is reportedly built upon laundered money.