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DEFINITION OF TERMS
Organized Crime (The United States) - A self-perpetuating, structured, and disciplined association of individuals or groups combined together for the purpose of obtaining monetary or commercial gains or profits wholly or in part by illegal means, while protecting their activities through a pattern of graft and corruption.
Eurasian Organized Crime This is the term applied by the FBI to the phenomenon of organized crime associated with person originating from Russia, eastern and central European countries, as well as the other independent states created following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most members of Eurasian organized crime groups in the United States originated in the territories of the former Soviet Union, particularly in Russia, the Ukraine and to a lesser degree from the Baltic states, principally Lithuania and Latvia





LITERATURE REVIEW
The Russian Organized Crime Task Force has stated conclusions that in the absence of significant reforms, the Russian Federation itself is likely to become a full-blown criminal-syndicalist state. (Russian Organized Crime, nd) The task force relates that such a state is of the composition, characteristics and interactive nature as follows: (1) corrupt officials at all levels throughout the government bureaucracy, from minister to tax collector

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