mafia , also: maffia

And they will turn on the cocaine mafias one day.

Here the various Russian mafias run the only part of the economy that still works.

"There is no way to get the mafias to submit to the law."

All such mafias are assumed to have connections in the President's family or the state security services.

Victims will remain under the control of the networks and mafias.

But things take a wrong turn, when their mother is kidnapped by three armed Mafias.

Next the business man is confronted by the young woman's brothers, who are members of the mafias.

"It is more like a series of little mafias," a diplomat said.

Above all, we must deal with the mafias trafficking in human beings.

Today these same men head territorial mafias that control jobs and government benefits.

The State has been replaced by violent organizations or drug mafias.

It is the easiest car for the mafias to have."

Instead, they used different "codes of murder" established between the mafias.

Kosovo has no army, only a fledgling police force and powerful mafias.

He liked the café because it was popular with the different Mafias.

The mafias played on social inequalities to guarantee their influence.

"If you force them into a tight corner, people with those skills can join all sorts of mafias."

The sea is now ruled by illegal and lawless mafias.

To regard them as illegal immigrants is playing into the hands of the mafias and traffickers.

I also advocate the need to control mafias.

At every level in Iraq, petty mafias are consolidating their power over monopolies of one kind or another.

And the mafias are often much more sophisticated than the police or the border police."

"But power still belongs to all these mafias."

It does not make sense to take the role of supposed victims of financial speculation or economic mafias.

The most ferocious businessmen had killed one another off, and a truce between the Mafias seemed to be holding.