The FBI and SWAT carried out a large-scale operation in California and Florida: 13 people were detained, $100,000 in cash seized, along with armored vehicles and weapons.

The hub of the criminal enterprise was Los Angeles. Criminal figures Ara Artuni and Robert Amiryan were involved — and even launched a manhunt against each other: assassination attempts, kidnappings with torture, and theft of Amazon cargo worth $83 million!

The syndicate operated through shell companies, hijacked trucks, and emptied bank accounts — all under the protection of the Russian mafia.

From the article I found the following incident as pretty interesting, showing the connection between criminal figures from the former Soviet Union who operating in the US and their connection back home to the elite of the Criminal World the Thieves in Law (Vor V Zakone).

Amiryan then appears to have taken his grievances and his evicence to the so-called thieves-in-law, the most senior leaders of the Armenian Mafia back in the former Soviet republic.

Artuni, according to the criminal complaint, visited the Armenian capital Yerevan in April 2024 to meet with the "thieves in law." When he's photographed soon after entering Dubai, he appears to have sustained several injuries and bruises.

"I believe that while abroad, Artuni may have been 'reprimanded' or 'regulated,' that is punished by a more senior member of Armenian Organized Crime or the Russian Mafia," according to the Homeland Security agent.

The Amazon cargo theft was purportedly conducted by members of Artuni's organization.

According to the criminal complaint, they set up bogus trucking businesses to contract with Amazon for transportation of merchandise to Amazon's warehouses. However, once they have picked up the shipments, they would offload a good chunk of the cargo before they delivered the remainder at the destination facility.

Members of Artuni's organization were involved in 33 transports in which $83,579,010.99 went missing, according to a 2024 Amazon law enforcement referral report cited in the criminal complaint.

Artuni's organization is also accused of running a “credit card bust-out” scheme where they drained the credit card business accounts of sham business before credit card companies could dispute or collect the funds."


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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rug-smuggling-eaten-jail-food-spicy.html

British 'drugs mule', 21, speaks from behind bars in Sri Lanka hellhole prison to reveal HER side of the story - and says she hasn't eaten for two days because jail food 'is too spicy'

https://www.citynow.it/ndrangheta-reggio-calabria-operazione-millennium-nomi-arrestati/

'Ndrangheta in Reggio, the NAMES of those arrested: 81 in prison and 16 under house arrest

Ninety-seven people under investigation in total. Several prominent names from the Alvaro clan were present.

Among the 97 arrests carried out at dawn as part of Operation “Millennium”, coordinated by the Reggio Calabria District Anti-Mafia Directorate and led by prosecutor Giuseppe Lombardo, there are also names linked to local politics.

Among those arrested is Pasquale Tripodi , a former regional councilor, who was placed under house arrest. He was not charged with the aggravating circumstance of mafia. In the investigation, two former regional councilors are also under investigation at large : Alessandro Nicolò , former Calabrian leader of Fratelli d'Italia and defendant in the “Libro Nero” trial, and Sebastiano Romeo , who was linked in the past to the Democratic Party .

Among the people involved are individuals who actively participated in the 2020 regional election campaign in Calabria. Several of those arrested are members of the Alvaro di Sinopoli gang , among which the name of Cosimo Alvaro , known as “Pelliccia”, stands out.

NAMES OF THOSE ARRESTED
81 people in prison:
ABBOT Giuseppe Francesco (Melito Porto Salvo, 31 October 1966)
AGRESTA Antonio (born 1974)
ALVARO Cosimo known as “Pelliccia” (Sinopoli, 25 April 1964)
ALVARO Domenico known as “u trappitaru” (Palmi, 24 March 1981)
ALVARO Francesco Paolo (Cinquefrondi, 13 February 1994)
ALVARO Francesco known as “u merro e ciripillo” (Reggio Calabria, 5 May 1998)
ALVARO Giuseppe (Sinopoli, 10 September 1973)
ALVARO Raffaele (Sinopoli, 19 January 1965)
ANGELS Nicodemus
BARBARO Antonio (born 1990)
BARBARO Francesco (born 1988)
BARBARO Francesco called “Sarsizzu” (born 1989)
BARBARIAN Joseph
BARBARO Giuseppe known as “u castanu” (Platì, 24 May 1976)
BARBARO Rocco called “Giocattolo/Candidù” (class of 1992)
BARBERS ANDREA
BEARDED Jeremiah Orlando
FIELD MIZZI Mario
CANNA Michael
CANNATA Francesco Antonio
CANNATA Michele
PUG Salvatore
CARUSO Antonio called “Pisciai”
BOX Pasquale Domenico
CASONI Daniel
CICERI Emanuel
COFFA Marco
COLELLA Claudio (Sinopoli, 16 June 1958)
CORDI Cosimo
COAST Carmel
CONSTANCE Matthew
CUTRI' Rocco
BENEDETTO Mauro
DOLPHIN Bruno
DEMASI Vincenzo called Marco
D'AGOSTINO Joseph
FABIAN Joseph
FEDERICO Antonino (Taurianova, 15 April 1987)
FRANCESCO IANNACI (Gioia Tauro, January 30, 1977)
FUDA Alessio
GALLUZZO Domenico
GRILLO Giuseppe called “Wild Boar”
IANNACI Domenico (Gioia Tauro, January 30, 1977)
IELASI Francesco called “Cicciollo”
IELASI Rocco called “Cerasu”
IETTO Antonio Pietro
IETTO Christmas
ITALIAN Joseph
JERINO Antonio
MAIORANA Andrea
MODAFFARI Holy
MOIO Michele
MORABITO Domenico known as “Testanira” (Sinopoli, 26 April 1965)
MORFEA Elio Arcangelo (Cinquefrondi, May 12, 1995)
MUIÀ Vincenzo (Siderno, November 6, 1969)
BLURRED Vincenzo
PANAIJA Iginio called Gino
PANGALLO Domenico called “Mazzabumba”
PANGALLO Christmas
PERRE Domenico
PERRE Francesco called “Percià”
PERRE Giuseppe (born 1975)
PEARS Saverio
PILLARS Domenico (Rizziconi, May 13, 1965)
POLIMENI Enzo
PRIOLO Francesco
PROJECTS Marcello
ROMEO Pasquale (Cinquefrondi, 26 August 1996)
RUGNETTA Rocco (Taurianova, 4 April 1967)
SCIARRONE Francesco (Calanna, January 20, 1960)
SERGI Domenico known as “Micu u Prarè”
SIMONETTI Grace
SPANISH Luca
VARACALLI Rocco Bruno
VIOLI Franco
VIOLI Giuseppe (Reggio Calabria, 23 August 1992)
VOTTARI Giuseppe (born in 1999)
ZAMBOLIN Alessandro
ZANDONELLA Geremia called Jerry
ZAPPIA Easter
FRANCESCO IANNACI (Gioia Tauro, January 30, 1977)
16 people under house arrest:
Vincenzo Giglio (Reggio Calabria, 28 July 1954)
Mario Giglio (Reggio Calabria, May 14, 1959)
Pasquale Tripodi (Montebello Ionico, 10 May 1957)
Giuseppe Errante (Bova Marina, 31 July 1955)
Franco Maria Perrelli (Reggio Calabria, 17 February 1946)
Sebastiano Altomonte (Bova, 2 August 1954)
Giuseppe Barreca (Reggio Calabria, 7 December 1957)
Sebastiano Strangio (Locri, February 13, 1975)
Romano Stefano (Locri, 25 May 1972)
Gregorio Fotia (Reggio, 23 October 1964)
Caruso Domenico
Colosimo Luigi
Feo Bruno
Filippone Francesco
Pollichemi Marco
Domenico Zappia

A: Rude cowboy to Ace

Q: is that what you did?!?!? You told him to him to go stuffing stuff himself!?!?!?

First Eastern Conference Finals appearance in 25 years. LET'S GO KNICKS!

https://www.abc6.com/8-charged-in-r...ney-laundering-scheme-targeting-elderly/

8 charged in Rhode Island in alleged fraud and money laundering scheme targeting elderly

https://nationalpost.com/news/canad...ying-incarcerated-released-or-on-the-lam

What became of Mom Boucher's boys: Dead, studying, incarcerated, released or on the lam

International • 14:11 • Modified at 14:11
Former Ukrainian politician shot dead on the street in Madrid
Author : Mark van Harreveld
Former Ukrainian politician Andri Portnov was shot dead on the street in Madrid. Portnov was a prominent adviser to pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych, who was deposed in 2014. The attack was carried out in front of an American school, where Portnov had just dropped off his children, El País reports. The newspaper writes that two or three attackers killed him with five shots, one of them in the head.

Portnov was a key aide to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in the 2014 Euromaidan revolution. After the revolution, the pro-Russian Portnov fled to Russia. He was placed on the European Union sanctions list for embezzlement of state funds and human rights violations in Ukraine, but was removed from the list a year later. In 2018, Ukrainian prosecutors opened an investigation into his possible involvement in the Russian annexation of Crimea, and an investigation into Portnov's corruption is still ongoing in Ukraine.


Not the first time
It is not the first crime involving either a high-ranking Russian or a high-ranking Ukrainian, particularly in Spain, which has a large expat community of both nationalities. In November and December 2022, six letter bombs were sent to high-profile targets in Spain, including Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, government offices, a European Union satellite company and the US embassy. A 76-year-old retired Spanish civil servant whose social media searches suggested sympathies for Russia was jailed for the crimes.

In April 2022, a Russian businessman with ties to Russian gas company Novatek was found dead in an apparent suicide, and in February 2024, a Russian pilot who had defected to Ukraine in his helicopter was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking garage of his apartment building near Alicante.