Crime

BKA: Russian Mafia spreads in Germany

The Russian Mafia is increasingly active in Germany. The Organisation of the width in the West and causing billions of dollars in damage, warns the Federal criminal police office.

“The Russian-Eurasian organized crime we experience as very dynamic,” said BKA President Holger Münch to the “world on Sunday”. “It is expanding, especially in the West.” The organization was also not in the areas where you suspect organised crime first, such as in the case of mass Housing committed burglary and Shoplifting. “So she has a huge damage potential,” said Münch, and said damage in the billions.

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It is especially dangerous “thieves in law”

Among the most dangerous groups in the area of organised crime, the so – called “thieves in law”, which had been founded decades ago in Stalin’s penal labor camps according to Münch. In Germany, the BKA had taken earlier, 20,000 to 40,000 persons with this Mafia organization. Currently, the authority speaks of a “five digit number”. Because of the large, dark field, only estimates were possible.

The members have formed, such as in the former Soviet Union is now also in German prisons networks. “Eight to ten percent of the inmates in German prisons are Russian-speaking or Russian-strong, the equivalent of about 5000 people,” said Münch. Not all of them were “thieves in law”, but the numbers show how big the “recruitment potential” of the group in Germany.

Also asylum seekers among the perpetrators

Münch added, in a proportion of the suspects were asylum seekers. “Especially in the case of such asylum seekers, the asylum need the right to commit crimes, it must be ensured that your stay is as short as possible, or a rapid expulsion can take place”, urged the BKA-chief. His authority will work closely with the Federal office for Migration and refugees (BAMF).

haz/stu (afp, dpa)