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Years active | Currently active |
Territory | Bremen/Bremerhaven and also Active in many parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (mostly Moscow). |
Ethnicity | Predominantly Chechens |
Leader(s) | Magomed Utsmiyev (Baysungur) |
Criminal activities | Money laundering, racketeering, extortion, arms trafficking, cybercrime, human trafficking, prostitution, drug trafficking, arson, fraud, larceny, murder |
Allies | Albanian mafia,Dagestani mafia |
Rivals | Russian Mafia, Cossacks and other Slavic crime groups |
The Chechen mafia (Chechen: Нохчийн мафи); "Noxçiyn mafi" Russian: Чеченская мафия, tr. Chechenskaya mafiya) is one of the largest ethnic organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia groups.