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The Greek Mafia is the colloquial term used to refer to various organized crime elements originating from Greece. Indigenous organized criminal groups are well-entrenched in the largest Greek urban centers, particularly in Athens. This is not only in thanks to the widespread political corruption in the country itself.〔http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/Nats_Hospitable.pdf〕 The Greek mafia should not be confused with Greek street gangs, who take part in smaller street crime. Outside of the domestic Greek criminal organizations the Sicilian mafia, Camorra, the Albanian, Russian and Georgian mafia groups have been operating in Greece in collaboration with the domestic criminal syndicates.〔http://www.flarenetwork.org/media/files/echo2_oc-and-drugs-in-greece.pdf〕 In the United States, ethnic Greek organized crime groups include the Philadelphia Greek Mob and Velentzas crime family. ==Godfathers of the night== Greek crime bosses are locally described as ''νονοί της νύχτας'' (translated as "Godfathers of the night"). Largely operating as owners of nightclubs, Greek crime groups are able to operate their illegal businesses from there on.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Πέπλο τρόμου στη νύχτα )〕 In contrast to the Sicilian mafia or the Albanian mafia, Greek criminal groups follow the same structure organized gangs have within the ''French Milieu'' or the ''Penose'' in the Netherlands. Domestically, they are largely smaller organized crime cells, sometimes family-based, who collaborate but from time to time also feud with one another. There are close to 217 known domestic crime lords operating in the country. Internationally, the smuggling and racketeering practices have a larger reach, and are not necessarily based on Greek nationals alone. With the need to infiltrate and manipulate multiple types of businesses in order to successfully smuggle internationally, more often than not such organisations resemble professional international cartels rather than traditional organised crime groups. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greek mafia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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