Founding location | Solntsevo District, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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Years active | Late 1980s – present |
Territory | Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Denmark, Netherlands, Czech Republic, United States, Israel, United Kingdom, France, Spain, South Africa, Canada and other parts of Europe, Africa and Australia.[1] |
Ethnicity | Predominantly Russians, Russian Jews and Ukrainians |
Criminal activities | Racketeering, extortion, illegal gambling, arms trafficking, human trafficking, prostitution, drug trafficking, robbery, arson, bribery, money laundering, fraud, murder, assault, kidnapping |
Allies | Orekhovskaya gang, Bulgarian mafia, Serbian mafia, and business partnerships with Colombian cartels, Chinese Triads, Sicilian Mafia, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta |
The Solntsevskaya Organized Crime Group (Russian: Солнцевская организованная преступная группировка), also known as the Solntsevskaya Bratva (Russian: Солнцевская братва), is a Russian crime syndicate group.
Other simplified versions of the name are Solntsevskaya Brotherhood and Solntsevskaya gang.