Solntsevskaya Bratva

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  Hello, everyone. My name is Eva Perez

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  and my final presentation is going to be on the Russian mafia as it pertains to Brava.

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  So, um

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  to begin with the first point is Russia.

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  So Russia is the largest country in the world

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  by area. Um

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  It expands over a vast area of Europe and part of northern Asia.

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  Um Their capital is Moscow and which is also the largest city in that whole country.

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  Russia was formerly part of the Soviet

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  Union before it became independent in 1991.

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  Um

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  In the second point as it pertains to organized crime,

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  organized crime is defined as a group of individuals

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  engaging in illegal activity for some kind of profit in return.

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  Uh Most organizations are created due to a demand

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  of illegal goods and services such as drugs,

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  fraud, prostitution.

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  Um

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  The way these organizations make a profit is um by providing such

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  goods and services that are illegal and getting paid for that service.

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  Um Some of these organized crimes

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  um such as terrorist organizations are more politically motivated

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  than just um

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  for making a profit.

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  Um in our next point.

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  Um Just a little bit of background

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  on the Russian mafia.

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  So um

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  the Russian mafia brava

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  is composed of various organized crime organizations itself.

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  Um And it's part of the former Soviet Union, which is not Russia.

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  Um There are various groups

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  and members involved

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  in this mafia

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  um such as corrupt officials, former prisoners of the country

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  and um

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  people that have had other criminal experience and such.

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  So for our next point, we're going to talk about the gang itself.

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  So, um

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  the game was founded in the 19 eighties.

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  Um It was based in Moscow

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  and recruited uh local unemployed individuals.

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  Um The gang was formed by a former writer

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  named uh Sergei

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  Mikha,

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  um

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  who was in prison for fraud.

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  Um The, the group itself has around 5000 members

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  making them the largest Russian criminal organization.

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  Um The district where the group was located

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  was near, is near a highway which leads to Ukraine.

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  Um This facilitated

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  um the gang to control the import of automobiles.

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  Um In the 19 nineties, there was a gang war which claimed a lot of lives

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  and sometime after it

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  happened, the collapse of the Soviet Union

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  and the gang was able to establish a relationship with various politicians

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  um with this new relationship um in politics,

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  the gang was able to influence the government to their benefit.

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  So a little more um on the gang specifically what they do, um

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  they have after the, the end of the eighties, um they

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  were located more

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  um, of their services and uh

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  money laundering into the banking sector.

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  Um, not only did they do this through,

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  through the banking system itself but through casinos, airports, um, hotels.

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  Um, besides laundering money,

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  some of their main operations included drugs smuggling, arms,

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  uh car smuggling,

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  more specifically extortion investments and running hotels which they used

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  to launder money.

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  Um, they have also been known

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  um for nar

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  narcotics trafficking and just gambling in, in general.

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  Um In our next point, we have um violence and law enforcement.

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  So as it pertains to violence,

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  um

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  it's a threat that defines the Russian organized crime in, in general.

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  Um It is used to gain control of the criminal markets.

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  Um Some Russian criminal activity

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  um related to violence includes extortion,

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  um which can lead to murdering kidnapping and arson

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  among other

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  um in the part of law enforcement.

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  Um

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  There have been cases of arrests

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  um made throughout different countries just not in,

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  not, not, not only in Russia.

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  Um for instance, there was a case where 11 Russians um were arrested in, in Spain

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  um that were part of the, of the brat

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  gang among the arrested. There was um

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  was the leader of the gang itself,

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  the president and a vice president

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  um of a Spanish football club.

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  It was that the group had a system for laundering money in Spain,

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  specifically in Malaga

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  and they were doing this through various organizations such as a golf club.

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  Uh a water bottle company and the football team of um the city of Malaga

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  and um

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  in Spain, they laundered around €30

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  million.

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  Um So to conclude,

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  um overall,

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  um the gang is

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  the biggest criminal organization.

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  Um like we mentioned, um

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  they

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  are still active, they are involved in a series of new activities,

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  as we mentioned before.

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  So they're smuggling drugs, extortion fraud among others.

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  Um The game uses the banking system to launder money

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  and has ties to the government itself through their politicians.

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  Um Like I mentioned before, they are currently active

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  and um

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  are doing so in

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  the district of

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  so

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  so and um some areas of Moscow.

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  Thank you.