Azadistani Mafia
| Founded | 1932 |
|---|---|
| Named after | Sicilian Mafia |
| Founding location | Metropolis, Azadistan |
| Years active | 1935- |
| Territory | most of Metropolis, most of North-West Azadistan and the high streets of other working-class neighbourhoods in Azadistan, |
| Ethnicity | initiates are Azadistani or half-Azadistani |
| Leader(s) | Muhammad Caesar Suleiman Pathan (Pathan Syndicate), Khadijah Aisha Abu Chand (Abu Chand Syndicate), Muhammad Lascar III Lascar Syndicate and Muhmmad Khalid Suleiman Al-Afghani (Al-Afghani Syndicate) |
| Criminal activities | drug trafficking (1987-2019), money laundering, extortion, murder, arms trafficking, financing of insurgencies, cybercrime, bribery, infiltration of politics, witness tampering, revolutionary activity and a range of criminal and non-criminal activities. |
| Allies | Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (1979-1989),Chechen Mafia |
| Rivals | Munkcestrian organised crime (2018-2020), National-Unionist Party (2018-2020), Taliban (1994-) |
| Notable members | Suleiman Pathan, Suleiman Al-Afghani, Khalid Suleiman Al-Afghani |
History
Founded during the Great Depression, it was a collection of organised criminals of different clans united under a "code of honour" and engaging in jewellery theft, fencing of goods stolen by others, extortion of businesses and murder of rivals. They also gave heavily to charity winning them the support of many of the Azadistani working-class in coastal areas. Cracked down on from 1945-1950, they were later embraced by the government in the 1960s who considered them "relatively better" than other organised crime syndicates (as they didn't murder civilians, didn't engage in procuring of women for prostitution or rape, didn't sell drugs, and didn't intimidate women or children). The lenient sentences they received upon hacking and other sabotage directed at the Islamophobic government of Kyneland lead to war between Azadistan and the Munkcestrian Republic.
Political links
The Azadistani Mafia is linked to various politicians across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa as well as in New York and Chicago. Although generally Islamists themselves, they tend to favour secular politicians of the centre, centre-right and centre-left rather than Islamists and even the far-right or the far-left.
Criminal subculture