The World's Most Evil Gangs (28 page)

Bandidos arrive in Ruegen, northern Germany, for the burial of one of their leaders.

Members of Hells Angels, Nomads, Rebels, Bandidos and Comanchero Motorcycle Clubs in a rare moment of solidarity at the funeral of a bikie.

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Charismatic gang leader Charles Manson at his 1969 trial.

The bodies of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo (
inset
), ringleader of a violent drug-trafficking cult, and cult member Martin Quintana.

Children play next to graffiti with the initials of drug trafficking gang Comando Vermelho daubed on a favela wall in Rio de Janeiro.

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Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

Daniel ‘El Loco’ Barrera, the last of the great capos, being extradited from Colombia to the US.

A police officer stands guard next to Luis ‘Don Lucho’ Caicedo, associate of Barrera with whom he ran the El Dorado Cartel.

Vyacheslav Ivankov, accused of being a godfather of Russian organized crime that included narcotics, money laundering and prostitution and had made ties with the American Mafia and Colombian drug cartels.

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The National Police Agency holds a meeting on
countermeasures
against Japan’s largest crime Syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi.

Tetsuya Shiroo, the former Yakuza member convicted of assassinating the mayor of Nagasaki.

Former member of Japan’s Bosozoku biker gang showing off the team name and motto embroidered on his robe.

Sicilian Mafia leader Salvatore Riina in 1993.

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