Expert: The Russian mafia threatens the UK. No one is fighting there with her

The Russian mafia in the UK is actually granted freedom of action. The kingdom has missed all the levers with which so far the struggle against international criminal groups was carried out, according to the Russian security expert Andrei Soldatov. The Mail Online publication got acquainted with the material of the Russian observer published in Novaya Gazeta . In it, the author shares the information received from various sources regarding the methods of combating Russian criminal structures that exist (or rather not existing) today in the UK. (Full text on the website inopressa.ru )

As a result of the circumstances coincided with time, today London is absolutely not protected from the activities of the Russian Mafia, which often arrives in the country with its business and is already actively operating in the London City. Due to the redistribution of powers between law enforcement agencies, no one is engaged in it now and the mafia may feel safe.

Until now, intelligence solved such problems, but today British intelligence officers are more concerned about the activities of Russian "colleagues". In addition, the special services switched to new problems that arose in the world due to the widespread threat of terrorism, having shifted the investigation of mafia affairs created in 2006 to the new department - SOCA (agency for combating organized crime). The agency formed on the basis of police structures cannot find a common language with scouts: there are many conflicts between the two structures. As the official representative of the agency Stuart Hedley confirmed the Russian -co -observer, in SOCA there is not even a special department for the fight against the Russian mafia. In addition, the interests of SOCA do not include the direct detention of criminals. Avoiding the possibility of revealing its sources, Soca prefers only to collect intelligence information without transferring the case to court. The scout's thinking of the head of SOCA, who previously headed the British counterintelligence MI5, is also triggered.

In addition, the Russian mafia itself, unlike the Vietnamese, Turkish and Colombian colleagues, openly fighting for control of casinos and clubs at a street level, prefers to work in the shade and therefore eludes the field of view of law enforcement agencies.

Before the scandal between Great Britain and Russia, due to the "case of Litvinenko", with the assistance of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the British managed to reveal a rather loud business with three Russian hackers. But this operation remained the only joint success. When a politician intervened in a relationship, a policeman who played a key role in contact with the Russian department, was removed from business, and the cooperation of the British police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia was almost completely interrupted.

The fatal coincidence of these factors led to the fact that today the Russian mafia in the UK does not threaten anything, reports the opinion of the Russian expert Mail Online.