🇷🇺 Semion Mogilevich - Ukrainian mobster linked with drug trafficking, international prostitution and trading in nuclear material. Russian defector and Ex KBG member Alexander Litvinenko claimed that he had a good relationship with Vladimir Putin.
🇺🇦 Hennadiy Kernes - Former Mayor of Kharkiv—alleged to be a former organised crime boss in the region. Former officer of the Ukrainian organised crime control, Yevgeny Zhilin, was held in a detention centre under suspicion of blowing up Kernes' car. Zhilin would later be gunned down by a hitman in an elite restaurant.
🇯🇵 Shinzo Abe - In this photo you can see Abe with Arkansas' governor mike Huckabee and Icchu Nakamoto of the Yamaguchi Gumi Yakuza clan.
🇯🇵 Shin Kanemaru - Shin Kanemaru was a top Japanese politician who resigned from parliament due to a scandal exposing links between the Japanese government and organised crime.
🇮🇹 Silvio Berlusconi - Has numerous links to the Mafia. According to a Mafia informer He was in contact with Stefano Bontade, a top Mafia boss. There's also the Graviano brothers, who were the bosses of the Palermo Mafia. They allegedly made deals with Berlusconi through a middle man. Vittorio Mangano was a Sicilian Mafia member and a stable keeper for Berlusconi in the 70s. During this time he was suspected of arranging the kidnapping of a friend of Berlusconi's. According to one informer, both Mangano and Dell'Utri assisted in sending money to the Sicilian Mafia.
🇮🇹 Marcello Dell'Utri - Forza Italia cofounder Marcello Dell'Utri was sentenced to 9 years for having associations with the mafia.
According to another mafia informer, both Dell'Ultri and Silvio Berlusconi were in direct contact with Salvatore Riina, head of the Sicilian Mafia in the 80s and 90s.
🇮🇹 Nicola Cosentino - Nicola Cosentino was an under secretary in the Italian economy ministry in 2008 to 2010. In 2010 he was involved in a scandal related to wind energy systems. This was related to the disclosure of the new P2 Masonic lodge, of which Berlusconi was a member. Cosentino was also related to the boss of the Casalesi clan, and he was alleged by the boss of the Camorra to have permitted the illegal treatment of toxic waste in exchange for a fee.
🇮🇹 Giulio Andreotti - According to an informer Italian prime Giulio Andreotti exchanged a kiss with Salvatore Riina, head of the Sicilian Mafia. He is also alleged to have arranged the assassination of an Anti-Mafia-Fighter and a journalist. He went to trial in 1993, accused of exchanging favours withe the Sicilian Mafia, but he ended up being acquitted in 1999. After a retrial in 2001 he was sentenced to 24 years, only to be acquitted again by the Italian supreme court in 2003.
🇺🇸 Donald Trump - He tried to build a casino in Sydney Australia in the mid 80s, but his bid to do so was refused after police expressed concerns over his links with the Mafia.
In New York one of Trumps mentors was Roy Cohn, a lawyer who had ties to local Mafia figures, including Tony Salerna, an underboss in the Genovese family, Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonano family, and John Gotti, boss of the Gambinos. Another of his clients was Aristotle Onassis. Another was the catholic arch archdiocese of New York.
In the 80s the subcontract for Trump Plaza was awarded to SNA Concrete, a company believed to be partially owned by Tony Salerno. Trump bought the property for his casino in Atlantic city through intermediaries from Salvator Testa.
🇺🇸 Barack Obama - His government provided guns to the Mexican drug cartels. This was involved with an operation with the stated goal of tracking the guns to the higher ups in the drug cartels. These guns, including military grade weapons include to be found at the scene of crimes related to the cartels. These instances actually started in the late Bush years, but Obama has invoked executive privilege when it comes to certain documents in relation to these incidents. In other words he's got something to hide.
In 2007 and 2008, Obama received over 150000 in campaign contributions, seemingly coming from Tony Rezko. Rezko co founded Rezmar Corporation, which in 1990 offered Obama a job, and in 1999, Obama would receive some of his first contributions from Rezko. In a high profile court case in 2008 Rezko was sent to prison on several charges including fraud and soliciting corruption.
In 2007 Alexi Giannoulias arranged a fundraiser for president Obama. Giannoulias has tons of reputed mob ties, including Michael Giorango who has been convicted of book making and encouraging prostitution.
🇺🇸 George H.W. Bush - George H.W. Bush has an older brother called Prescot Bush Sr. Prescot is know to have given investment advice to a firm connected with the Japanese Yakuza, in particular Susumu Ishii who was then chairmen of the Inagawa-kai, Japan's second largest Yakuza organisation. The firm in question was under the control of Ishii.
🇺🇸 The Clintons - Bill Clinton has a brother names Rodger. Back when bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas, he pardoned Rodger after e was charged with a possession fo cocaine.
A former top FBI official has referred to the Clintons as an influence peddling crime family.
In 2007, Hillary Clinton met with Giovani Gambino, a cousin of the former head of the Gambino crime family.
🇺🇸 Richard Nixon - Richard Nixon's early campaign manager was Murray Chotiner, a lawyer known for defending the mafia. And it's through Chotiner that Nixon is alleged to have exchanged favours with major world figures.
L.A. gangster Mickey Cohen is known to have made major contributions to Nixon's political campaigns.
Nixon was known to be friends with James Crosby. Crosby was in the gambling business, and the chairman of a firm connected to major mob figures.
In 1972, two members of the Nixon campaign administration admitted to plotting to kill journalist Jack Anderson by poisoning, and that they were under orders from a top aid of the president. This plot was aborted when these two were arrested in relation to the watergate scandal. After his death decades after this incident, the FBI went through Anderson's papers and confiscated anything that they deemed classified.
🇺🇸 JFK - President John F. Kennedy was rumoured to be connected to Sam Giancana, a former head of the Chicago Outfit.
🇺🇸 Rudy Giuliani - Rudy Giuliani was mayor of new york from 94 to 2001. His father Harold had associations with the Mafia, and had been convicted of felony assault and robbery. Harold worked as an enforcer for his brother in law Leo D'Avanzo.
🇺🇸 Jim Mason - Jim Mason, a member of the Tewksbury Bureau Council was revealed in pictures taken in 2009 to have been a full patched member of the Outlaws biker gang. The Outlaws are generally considered to be an organised crime group by police forces around the world, and they're known to have been in violent conflict with members of the Hell's Angels.
🇮🇳 India - In India the Russian mafia is said to be ver active in the region f Goa on the western coast, with the Goan government reportedly looking the other way when it comes to their activities.
🇮🇳 Mukhtar Ansari - Mukhtar Ansari is an Indian mafia don who joined the government. He's been accused of killing another political actor, Krishnanand Rai.
🇮🇳 Saradha group financial scandal - In 2014, many prominent people were arrested in connection with the Saradha group financial scandal. This included two members of Indian parliament and a former West Bengal director general of police—also Madan Mitra, a former minister in charge of sports and transportation in West Bengal. This scandal was caused by the collapse of a ponzi scheme run by the Saradha group.
🇮🇳 Narendra Modi - Priminister of India, seen in picture sitting down with higher ups in the liquor mafia, the same mafia that has produced bad liquor which has killed and blinded people.
🇮🇳 Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam - In the Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam, several top government people have been alleged to have siphoned off massive amounts of money from the national rural health mission. At least five people have been known to be killed in an attempt o cover up this scam.
🇮🇳 Truck driver bribes - In 2011, an Indian truck driver was allegedly assaulted for refusing to pay a bribe to transportation department staff. He died shortly afterwards from his injuries. Truck drivers having to pay these kinds of bribes to transportation officials and police is so commonplace in India that an estimated 40M dollars in bribes is payed daily.
🇨🇳 Liu Han - In China the business man Liu Han was convicted of murder running a mafia style group and other charges and executed in 2015. Liu Han had founded the Hanlong group and was close with Zhou Bin, a son of Zhou Yongkang who was then a senior leader in the Chinese communist party. Yongkang was expelled from the party in 2014 and arrested presumably due to charges of corruption.
Yongkang was also known to be close to Jian Jiemin, who was previously the head of the China national petroleum corporation. Jiemin was arrested in 20123, shortly after getting a job in the Chinese government, and according to media sources in China, he was sentenced to 16 years for having accepted bribes.
🇰🇷 Park Geun-hye - In Korea, former president Park Geun-hye was forced out of office in 2007 after being accused of corruption. She was close with Choi Soon-Sil, the daughter of Choi Tae-min, who was the leader of christian sect in Korea, and who was known to be a mentor to Park, until his assassination in 1979.
Choi Soon-Sil was accused of receiving bribes in exchange for government favours given out by Park. The result of this was Choi-soon-Sil being given a prison sentence.
🇰🇷 Errand Men - South Korea has a reputation for having so called errand men, who will do things for business and government people that the police won't, such as chasing away squatters and street venders, and they're linked to organised crime groups in South Korea.
🇻🇳 Năm Cam - Năm Cam who was executed by firing squad in 2004 was known as the godfather of Vietnam. He was a former soldier and ship builder, and his operation was based out of Ho Chi Minh City. He ran gambling dens, hotels and restaurants that were fronts for brothels, and he was said to be so close with the local police that they had to bring in authorities from other regions just to arrest him. Before being executed he was put on display in a large show trial in which 153 of the other people being charged along with him were high ranking members of the communist party.
🇹🇭 Somchai Khunpluem - In Thailand Somchai Khunpluem was the long-time mayor of Saen Suk. His son was the minister of culture under prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, and was the tourism minister under Thaksin Shinawatra. Both of these prime ministers were effectively removed from their positions by a cue and charged with abuse of power. Somchai is recognised as an organised crime boss and is referred to as the godfather of the east by Thai media. He as been in smuggling during the Vietnam war and the Cambodian Civil war, and he is said to have made most of his fortune in construction and real estate.
🇹🇭 Vatana Asavahame - Vatana Asavahame was once known as the godfather of Pak Nam and once had many connections with business and government. Vatana himself had been in many senior government positions such as the interior minister and the prime minister's office minister. In 2008, Vatana was sentenced to 10 years in jail in Absentia on charges related to corruption in relation to the Klong Dan wastewater treatment project, and he's said to have never been seen in Thailand since. His son has done jail time in relation to electoral fraud.
🇰🇭 Hun Sen - Hun Sen. His birth name was Hun Bunal but he changed it two years after joining the Khmer Rouge. Hun was a commander for the Kamer Rouge and later became a leader in the rebel army that defeated them, and since then been in various senior positions in the Cambodian government. Hun Sen's government has leased out 45 percent of Cambodias land mass, primarily to foreign investors, which has threatened an estimated 150000 Cambodians with eviction.
🇰🇭 Teng Bunma - Teng Bunma was one of Cambodia's wealthiest businessmen. He has been described as a significant figure in Cambodia's international drug smuggling trade. He's also been called a trigger happy tycoon because of his habit of brandishing handguns. In once incident he shot out the. tire of an airplane after complaining about the airline service.
Bunma has alleged ties with Hun Sen and other top government officials, and he is said to have provided members of the government with large funding.
🇹🇷 Recep Erdoğan - Under his government the country is alleged to have received oil tankers from Isis controlled territory, and the membership of Turkish parliament is said to include family members of organised crime groups. Furthermore, the only crimes not sanctioned by this greater family are prosecuted by the full force of the state. His son Bilal is suspected by judges in Italy of being involved in money laundering.
🇹🇷 Susurluk Scandel - Back during the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in the mid 90s, a close relationship between the Turkish government and organised crime was revealed after a car crash in what's been called the Susurluk Skandal.
🇹🇷 Matthew Guy - In Australia a member of the government named Matthew Guy met with and alleged mob boss named Tony Madafferi at a restaurant, and according to transcripts of phone calls leading up to this meeting, it was meant to be kept confidential.
Members of the Australian Government are reportedly linked with and and exchanging favours with the Calabrian Mafia, (AKA the Ndrangheta) and Mafia clans like the Sergi, Barnaro and Papalia are known to have been active in Australia through their affiliates for quite some time.
🇩🇪 Matthew Guy - In Germany, the government in general has been criticised for not cracking down on Italian Mafia clans. These clans are said to have infiltrated the German construction industry, and in general Germany for them is said to be a place for money laundering, and for getting involved in more white collar crime. According to investigators, the Sicilian Mafia is particularly active in the Rhineland, and that back in the 80s in Berlin an network between organised crime figures and government officials was revealed in a big scandal.
🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán - He has been connected with Semion Mogilevich, having reportedly having received bribes from Mogilevich and the Russian mob in the 90s.
🇭🇺 Sándor Pintér - Sándor Pintér is (was) the Hungarian government's minister of the interior and a former top police official, and he too is said to have received money from Mogilevich in the mid 90s.
🇨🇭 Switzerland - According to a statement by the now dead Muammar Gaddafi, Switzerland is a Mafia State. He went on to say that the country is a haven for large scale money laundering, and that laws allowing for assisted suicide are used as a cover for the assassination of rich foreigner with Swiss bank accounts in order to get ahold of their money.
🇨🇭 Hells Angels - In Zürich, despite accusations of racketeering and attempted kidnapping, the local hells angels have been declared not to be a criminal organisation.
🇨🇭 Calabrian Mafia - In 2014, a high level meeting of the Calabrian Mafia was recorded in a small town in Switzerland.
🇫🇷 Marie-Jeanne Bozzi - Marie-Jeanne Bozzi was the mayor of the Corsican commune of Grosseto-Prugna-Porticcio from 2001 to 2002 when she was convicted of being the madam of a prostitution ring. She again became mayor in 2005 but resigned again after being convicted of ta fraud. She was assassinated in 2011 in what was suspected to be a score settling between mafia factions.
🇫🇷 Francois Hollande - Francois Hollande was alleged and all but confirmed to have been having an affaire with actress Julie Gayet, and that they would have ron-des-vous at a property connected to the Corsican Mafia.
🇫🇷 Nicolas Sarkozy - Another former French prime minister, Nicolas Sarkozy has also been accused of having ties with the Mafia, and in articular, his government's interference with corsica has been accused of serving mafia interests.
🇪🇸 Spanish Dirty War - In Spain in the late 90s a former interior minister was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in what's known as the Spanish dirty war. The court found him and other members of the government guilty of misuse of public funds and kidnapping. The organisation of security forces and assassins they are said to have formed is alleged to have killed at least 28 people, with may of their targets having no connectinon to the vast seprtatists they were supposedly fighting.
🇪🇸 José Ramón Barral - José Ramón Barral was for 18 years the mayor of Pontevedra City. He resigned in 2001 after being detained for smuggling tobacco, and for allegedly laundering the proceeds through the British Virgin Islands.
🇪🇸 Alberto Nunez Feijoo - Alberto Nunez Feijoo is the president of Xunta De Galicia, a position he was chosen for by King Juan Carlos I. He as admitted to traveling with convicted smuggler Marcial Dorado in the mid 90s.
🇸🇪 Carl XVI Gustaf - Carl XVI Gustaf is (was) the Current King of Sweden. He is alleged in his younger years to have frequented mafia run clubs. People named in these allegations include the Serbian gangster Mille Marković, who himself claimed it to be true before his death from gun shot wounds in 2014. Three suspects were arrested in connection with his death but all three were released. Allegedly as good sum of money was paid to another night club owner in order to get him to retract his claims about the king, and money was paid to other mafia figures to get them to silence Marković.
🇳🇱 Hell's Angels - The government of Amsterdam has been criticised for employing Hell's Angels members, and the government claimed it intended to weed out Hell's Angels members after a city employee and Hell's Angels member were sentenced for 8 years for placing a live hand grenade underneath a car.
🇳🇱 Johan Fisco - A Dutch prince Johan Friso renounced his claim to the thrown after the government refused to support his marriage. The reason being, his bride was connected to the dead gangster Klaas Bruinsma. According to a former bodyguard of Bruinsma, the two were very close, and she was a regular guest to Bruinsma's yacht at night time. Although by her own account the two were only slightly acquainted.
🇬🇧 Lord Boothby - In the UK evidence has come to light about a relationship between Lord Boothby who was a member of the government and Ronnie Kray of the criminal Kray twins, a relationship with a homosexual element to be exact. During his lifetime Boothby received a libel payout after similar allegations were made.
🇬🇧 Sadiq Khan - Khan is known to have been in circles with the likes of Yasser al-Siri, a militant who was given the death sentence in Egypt but received asylum from the english government. Khan has also been seen talking to Babar Ahmad, who has been accused of providing materiel support to militant groups through a website that he set up in the UK, and ahas spent a total of 11 years in prison.
🇨🇦 Rob Ford - Former mayor of Toronto Rob Ford has been linked to several organised crime groups. In one instance he posed in a picture with Hell's Angels, which they put up on their Toronto Website. Ford is more famous for a video of him smoking crack, the drama over which has led to government employees resigning and at least one death. There was also a clip of him apparently speaking in Jamaican Patois about his counter surveillance measure, and yet another of him talking about he needs 10 minutes to make sure somebodies dead.
🇨🇦 Frank Zampino - Frank Zampino is the former chairman of the executive committee of the Montreal government. Zampino allegedly received 300000 Canadian dollars from Paolo Catania in exchange for Catania being able to buy a parcel of city land valued at 5M Canadian dollars for just 5M. Catania is alleged to have given Zampino other favours, such as a 25000 dollar kitchen renovation for free, and that this exchange of favours was an ongoing thing. In 2012 Zampino was charged with fraud after the investigation based on these allegations.
Paolo Catania's father Fransesco Catania was close with former mob boss Nicolo Rizzuto, and Paolo is said to have used his close tied to the Sicilian Mafia to build his own personal fortune.
🇨🇦 Gérald Tremblay - Former Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay resigned after allegations were made that he was receiving money from Mafia linked construction firms in exchange for municipal infrastructure contracts.
🇲🇽 Enrique Peña Nieto - Has alleged ties to the Juárez Cartel., and under his government key Cartel figures have been suspiciously released from prison, and after an investigation it was said that the Juárez Cartel helped to fund Nieto's party campaign, in part by using a company called Monex to fund thousands of cash cards.
🇲🇽 Tomás Yarrington - Tomás Yarrington, a former member of Neito's institutional revolutionary party has been accused of laundering money for the Gulf Cartel in Los Zetas.
🇻🇪 Tarek Al Asami - Tarek Al Asami is (was) the current Vice president of the Venezuelan government. There's been allegations of him being involved in money laundering drug trafficking and corruption. According to the US government treasury department, Asami has a history of drug trafficking throughout his previous positions in the Venezuelan government, having facilitated shipments of narcotics leaving Venezuela above air and sea, in particular shipments destined for the Los Zetas in Mexico. He's also alleged to have offered government protections to dug lords Walid Makled and Daniel Barrera Barrera.
🇵🇭 Duterte Family - Former president of the Philippines and former mayor of Davao. According to the claims of former self confessed assassin, Edgar Matobato, Duterte had ordered death squads to kill certain criminals and opponents of his in the government.
Rodrigo's son Paolo is (was) the current vice mayor of Davao city, and he has been since 2013 when Rodrigo was still mayor. Paolo is also alleged by Edgar to have ordered numerous extrajudicial killings, including the killing of business man Richard King, who Rodrigo has said was in the drug front.
Paolo has been named during an inquiry about a large amount of money smuggled through the Philippine Bureau of customs, with Paolo being alleged to have been involved with the transactions of a certain Davao group.
Rodrigo's daughter Sara Duterte is the current (former) mayor of Davau City. In a Facebook post she has thanked tattoo artist Edwin Miraflores for a Triad tattoo. Paolo is also alleged to have a Triad tattoo, and that money in question was smuggled in to the country from China.
🇿🇦 Jacob Zuma - Zuma has been in countless scandals and is said to be turning south Africa into a mafia state, mostly in reference to his connections with the Indian Gupta family, including business investments with the company Oakbay Investments, and they've employed members of Zuma's family in some of their various companies in South Africa, all presumably in exchange for government favours. It's too the point that this family gets refered to as the shadow government of South Africa. The Gupta family has also been accused of running a criminal enterprise in South Africa and engaging in racketeering and money laundering with Jacob Zuma.
🇿🇦 Vito Roberto Palazzolo - Vito Roberto Palazzolo has been given a sentence of 9 years for charges related to mafia association. He is alleged to be a mafia treasurer and linked to the Sicilian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, who has been given a life sentence along with his predecessor Salvatore Riina. Vito Roberto Palazzolo has spent years living in South Africa, having arrived using a fake passport which he allegedly obtained from a fellow inmate at a prison in Switzerland. While in South Africa he obtained a new name and passport, he was known as Robert von Palace Kolbatschenko, essentially claiming to be from a German nobility clan. According to investigations into this, he invested more than 25M into businesses into South Africa and Namibia, and he was close with many members of Zuma's African National Congress party, and he was allegedly linked with, among other companies, the Anglo-Cape Diamonds company.
🇧🇷 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was president of Brazil from 2011 to 2013. During this time, he granted refugee status to Cesare Battisti, who has been given a life sentence in Italy after being connected to four assassinations, two of which e allegedly carried out himself, and all of which were part of the activities of the Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC) group.
🇦🇷 Mauricio Macri - In Argentina, president Mauricio Macri has stated that drug cartels operate with total impunity.
🇦🇷 Jose Ramon Granero - Former drug chief Jose Ramon Granero has been accused of facilitating the importation of massive quantities of ephedrine, which can be used for the production of methamphetamine, and the amounts imported were well above what official pharmaceutical operations required in the country.
🇦🇷 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner also has alleged ties to both Granero and the pharmaceutical companies that were also implicated in this.
Granero's private secretary Miguel Zacarías, who is said to have managed these imports also reportedly has ties Kirchner"s family and he has a brother names Maximo Zacarías, who has been accused of importing 1000kg of ephedrine for Mario Segovia, an associate of the Sinaloa Cartel.
🇰🇵 Office 39 - The North Korean government is said to have run a production operation of Meth, Opium and other drugs out of a department called Office 39, with the drugs being intended for export, but it's also been claimed that the consumption of Meth inside the country is fairly commonplace, and that the government is more of less complicit with the operations of local drug dealers.
In Australia in 2004, a ship named the Pong Su was sieged along with it's North Korean crew, most of whom were deported, with the ship being said the have been engaged in importing Heroin into the country.
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