According to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, since 1994, about hundreds of Russian criminal gangs have established positions in 29 countries, including Germany, Israel, and the United States.

Russian gangsters have also made contacts with other international drug smuggling syndicates, money-laundering gangs, and illegal arms dealers, forming a huge network of organized crime.

In addition to money laundering, Russian gangsters are also engaged in drug trafficking, terrorist bombings, international prostitution, the production or resale of counterfeit money, arms smuggling, and even nuclear weapons.

In 2000, the Bank of New York was suspected of laundering tens of billions of dollars for Russian gangsters, the largest money laundering case in the history of the United States.

During the Soviet era, a lot of dollars were transferred to foreign accounts, and now these funds are flowing back to Russia, but not into the treasury, but into personal pockets.

However, because the amount of money is too large and the source is unknown, it must be carried out to legalize it in order to enter the normal circulation field, and the operation mode of the underworld is to do it across borders, so that a large number of illegal funds can be legalized through blockades, brothels and other related businesses.

In September 2000, the FBI found that some Russians had laundered a huge sum of nearly $10 billion from unknown sources through the Bank of New York.

The FBI launched a comprehensive investigation and found that since 1993, Russian gangsters have carried out a large amount of money laundering through banks in New York, Switzerland and other places.

In the course of the investigation, some important figures in Russia's political and economic circles were also involved. Due to the lack of sufficient evidence, the money laundering case, which has been hyped up by the media in Western countries and involves Russian political leaders, has not yet been concluded.

But the Russian gangster became an overnight sensation and became the focus of the world's attention.

To this end, Russia has strengthened cooperation with the powerful departments of the United States and other Western countries to jointly combat organized crime by gangsters.

Some experts, however, pointed out that because of the complicated background of Russian criminal gangs and the fact that some organizations are inextricably linked with the top level, it is by no means easy to improve the legal system in Russia and thoroughly eradicate organized crime, and the struggle against criminal organizations with a solid foundation and sinister and cunning will be extremely arduous and complicated, and this is by no means an overnight matter.

On 15 May 2001, Australian police issued a national warning that Russian gangs were infiltrating Australia on a large scale.

On the same day, a senior Australian police official said that Russian gangsters were recklessly expanding their power in Australia.

At the same time, he said that the police had sufficient evidence that Russian gangsters had used Sydney, Melbourne and the Queensland tourist resort of the Gold Coast as ideal locations for money laundering.

In this way, they transform the black money they have earned elsewhere.

McFarlane, a consultant at Australia's Centre for Strategic and Defense Studies in Canberra, said Russian gangsters are rapidly rising in Australia, and they are about to replace triads as Australia's main criminal organization.

"The Russians are much more savvy, and they are moving $1 billion through the world's financial system," he said.

According to criminology experts, the Russian triad has long been driven into Western Europe.

Russian triad funding is concentrated in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, the United States, Finland, and the Netherlands.

In Western Europe, it is mainly engaged in drug smuggling, money laundering and the skin and meat industry.

Berlin was an important stronghold of the Russian underworld in Western Europe. There is mainly business of smuggling and stealing cars,

Mercedes, once the head of the Berlin police department, was found in Moscow a few months after it was lost.

The difference between the Russian triad and the Italian triad is very simple, in Italy the triad wants to bribe officials, in Russia there is no need at all, the leaders of the triad have long been in the confidential departments of the government, and they even control and influence several important industries,

In October 1999, the Wall Street Times in New York reported on a case of money laundering by the underworld, a company in New York called BENEX had an affair with the Russian underworld and was suspected of participating in the money laundering case.

BENEX is likely to be a leather bag company for many Russian import and export companies, through which the triad is likely to buy goods from all over the world anonymously, bypassing customs and paying customs duties, starting with a few million dollars and later growing to hundreds of millions of dollars.

INVESTIGATORS ALSO FOUND THAT A BENEX BANK ACCOUNT WITH MORE THAN $5 BILLION IN INFLOWS AND WITHDRAWALS FROM 1996 TO DATE, HAD BEEN SEIZED. Neither Volkswagen nor DaimlerChrysler, which received orders from this account, commented.

On 3 December 1999, two masked men broke into the villa of Lebanese billionaire Al-Safra in Monaco, assassinated Safra and his female nurse, and set the villa on fire.

The Financial Times reported that the 67-year-old Seraf owns the Republic Bank in New York, which is closely cooperating with US officials in the fight against money laundering, and the murder of Safra is clearly an act of revenge by the triad against the Bank of the Republic.

When it comes to the underworld, people first think of extortion, and in fact, extortion is only a small part of it.

The triad has even taken advantage of ethnic conflicts to sell arms on a large scale, and drug smuggling and trafficking have become the main business.

Drugs entered Moscow through the black channel in Asia and were then distributed throughout Western Europe through Moscow.

The Russian triad is the late star of the international triad, but its methods are also more brutal.

The meat business in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Zurich in Switzerland and other red-light districts had to give way to the little Russian brothers, and the Russian triad was able to attract younger, more beautiful goods.

70 to 80 percent of foreign-funded enterprises in Russia pay protection money to the triad.

The methods of the triad are also very civilized, they come to the door to ask for joint ventures with foreign companies, promise to go through various so-called "procedures" and call it technology investment, and receive 5% profits.