His control was solidified shortly after the first chairman of the network was assassinated gangland-style.
The original trial heard the shootings had been a botched gangland reprisal for a previous shooting.
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Removing the glamour of gangland crime for the region's disaffected youth will take even longer.
Thanks to the drug mobs' political connections, gangland and reprisal killers are rarely arrested.
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The 10-year-old daughter of a Bulgarian gangland boss has been abducted outside her house in the capital Sofia.
Ms Davenport is one of 14 police officers being investigated over the handling of a 2002 gangland murder.
Two men have been convicted of shooting dead the drug dealer stepson of gangland celebrity and author Dave Courtney.
The leaders nickname is Tsotsi, and he lives up to its gangland implications masterminding robberies that often turn deadly.
Saddam Hussein is one of the few relers today who hold power with methods reminiscent of Chicago's gangland in the 1920s.
Fourteen police officers, including a newly-appointed chief constable, are being investigated over the handling of a 2002 gangland murder, it has emerged.
Not one of dozens of gangland killings since 2001 has been solved.
Five men jailed for a gangland murder have been cleared on appeal.
Ronald Lauder probably did not know that his host is a powerful gangland boss and the prime suspect in Russia's most famous murder investigation.
Its determined casinos and ticky-tacky nightspots have spawned a gangland war in recent years that has scared residents far more than the impending handover.
He turned Death Row into one of the major forces in American music in the 1990s, but often became involved in hip-hop's gangland disputes.
Macau's reputation is already fragile, and suggestions that the gangland violence of the 1990s has been replaced by commercial crime do it no favours.
Last year Macau's security chief, Manuel Monge, blithely reassured tourists worried about being caught in gangland shoot-outs that the hitmen never missed their mark.
Two of Mr Coke's brothers and a sister have been shot dead over the years, either by gangland killers or in shoot-outs with police.
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Nine years after the shooting of Mr Magill, drug dealer Dave King was the victim of a similar gangland shooting outside a gym in Hoddesdon.
Conservative MP Dominic Raab highlighted the case of alleged hacker Gary McKinnon and said he should not be treated like a "gangland mobster or al-Qaeda mastermind".
They said they covered Ms Chavez's face in sticky tape until she suffocated and cut off her hand to make her murder look like a gangland execution.
During a dull weekend with friends near the Solent, Frank suddenly perks up he can pop off to see Reggie Kray, a famous gangland murderer, in nearby Parkhurst jail.
Despite all the violence, the movie is aesthetically shaped and slightly distanced by the pictorial verve of gangland effrontery the public aggression that Mann makes inseparable from high style.
The fact that the gangland bosses, who deal in everything from people smuggling to drugs to arms exports, are currently keeping a very low profile is having several immediate effects.
Over the years, Sanjay Dutt has had a chequered career with a mixed bag of films, mostly revelling in the role of a macho, gangland don, sometimes with a soft heart.
According to Vojislav Tufegdzic, top crime reporter for the daily Blic, most gangland bosses are simply sitting on their hands waiting to see what sort of country will now emerge in the wake of Milosevic's demise.
The first is that the regime is reverting to familiar gangland tactics to bully its way back to international negotiations under the framework of the stalled six-party talks, chaired by China and including America, Japan and Russia.
Even with Mr Wan, and a growing number of his associates, for the moment behind bars, it may be wishful thinking to assume that the gangland violence that has racked Macau will come to a tidy end.
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