Maffia in Sweden ? Or ? :S
As the headline says I thought I can tell you just a bit about the swedish-undeworld or maffia if you could call it that, not that sure if you compare to the Yauza and Triads you have in Japan but I can contribute with some text-rows about the criminality and it's influence in the swedish society.
Okay, the criminalty in sweden is overal pretty low or somethng in the middle, it's not extremely high anyway. But the criminal gangs in Sweden are in fact mc-clubs or at least the biggest ones; Hells Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws and the Brotherhood Wolfpack. Theese mentioned gangs are the biggest ones in Sweden and if you hear of swedish crime-gangs you probaly hear about one or more from the mentioned above.
Hells Angels, HA
Hells Angels is the biggest and oldest MC-gang and has the highest amount of active criminal gangmembers.
The mc-gang is or "was" back in the 70s a crimesyndicate with incomings from prodtituion, narcotic drug dealing, blackmailing and financial crime.
The gang today is very organized, the gang has thier own rankingsystem and it runs very descrete and has incomes from legal business as well, as tattoo-shops (theese are among the best in Sweden) and recently it was reveald that Hells Angels club-members had been running a rehab centre for youths and thereby got an steady income, legaly.
The illegal business that this gang is surviving on is still crimes like blackmailing, robberies and similar crimes, but the risk of get caught has increased alot because of harder supervision by the police and other factors.
Other illegal business this gang are doing is that they "controll" clubs/places (nightclubs and pubs for example).
This is basicly blackmailing, the gang takes a fee from the club, restaurant or other places and they protect them against other gangs and from vandalising or other unpleasant things that could happpen to the place if they don't pays them.
This kind of business has it's stronghold in the bigger cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg and it doesn't affect the civialans that are going the the club or the place, as long as the club-owner is friend with Hells Angels so the gang doesn't blows up the place with civilians or abuses people outside the club to make a statement to the owner to start pay them.
The Other gangs
The other criminal gangs of Sweden has thier incomes from crimes and activities similar to Hells Angels, I just brought up hells angels as an example.
You should know that the last activity mentioned, blackmailing club members are only the largest gangs who can run operations like that because it takes years of reputation and power.
And it's not in that way that every club in stockholm pays smoe criminal gang, it exists but it's not a very big society issue.
Gangs and Society
Theese criminal gangs isn't really a problem for the ordinary sweds or the civilans as long as you don't owes them money or abusing a club member or something else to fuck up the club. The problem beginns when the gangs are in war with eatch other and then a couple of people are dying in shootings because of the rivality between the gangs.
It also becomes a problem when the gang or club jumps unprovoked on a civilains and blackmails them, but it's not common anymore because of harder supervision from the swedish police. So as long as you'r enot causing or has anything to do with thoose mc-clubs you're are garanteed to 99% that you can live a life away from ciminality like this.
Okay, the criminalty in sweden is overal pretty low or somethng in the middle, it's not extremely high anyway. But the criminal gangs in Sweden are in fact mc-clubs or at least the biggest ones; Hells Angels, Bandidos, Outlaws and the Brotherhood Wolfpack. Theese mentioned gangs are the biggest ones in Sweden and if you hear of swedish crime-gangs you probaly hear about one or more from the mentioned above.
Hells Angels, HA
Hells Angels is the biggest and oldest MC-gang and has the highest amount of active criminal gangmembers.
The mc-gang is or "was" back in the 70s a crimesyndicate with incomings from prodtituion, narcotic drug dealing, blackmailing and financial crime.
The gang today is very organized, the gang has thier own rankingsystem and it runs very descrete and has incomes from legal business as well, as tattoo-shops (theese are among the best in Sweden) and recently it was reveald that Hells Angels club-members had been running a rehab centre for youths and thereby got an steady income, legaly.
The illegal business that this gang is surviving on is still crimes like blackmailing, robberies and similar crimes, but the risk of get caught has increased alot because of harder supervision by the police and other factors.
Other illegal business this gang are doing is that they "controll" clubs/places (nightclubs and pubs for example).
This is basicly blackmailing, the gang takes a fee from the club, restaurant or other places and they protect them against other gangs and from vandalising or other unpleasant things that could happpen to the place if they don't pays them.
This kind of business has it's stronghold in the bigger cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg and it doesn't affect the civialans that are going the the club or the place, as long as the club-owner is friend with Hells Angels so the gang doesn't blows up the place with civilians or abuses people outside the club to make a statement to the owner to start pay them.
The Other gangs
The other criminal gangs of Sweden has thier incomes from crimes and activities similar to Hells Angels, I just brought up hells angels as an example.
You should know that the last activity mentioned, blackmailing club members are only the largest gangs who can run operations like that because it takes years of reputation and power.
And it's not in that way that every club in stockholm pays smoe criminal gang, it exists but it's not a very big society issue.
Gangs and Society
Theese criminal gangs isn't really a problem for the ordinary sweds or the civilans as long as you don't owes them money or abusing a club member or something else to fuck up the club. The problem beginns when the gangs are in war with eatch other and then a couple of people are dying in shootings because of the rivality between the gangs.
It also becomes a problem when the gang or club jumps unprovoked on a civilains and blackmails them, but it's not common anymore because of harder supervision from the swedish police. So as long as you'r enot causing or has anything to do with thoose mc-clubs you're are garanteed to 99% that you can live a life away from ciminality like this.
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