全球收入最高的五大黑帮_BEC初级作文

全球收入最高的五大黑帮

1. Yamaguchi Guri—Revenue: $80 billion

1、山口组(Yamaguchi Guri) 收入：800亿美元

The largest known gang in the world is called the Yamaguchi Guri, one of several groups collectively referred to in Japan as “Yakuza,” a term that is roughly equivalent to the American use of “mafia.” The Yamaguchi Guri make more money from drug trafficking than any other source, according to HiromitsuSuganuma, Japan’s former national police chief. The next two leading sources of revenue are gambling and extortion, followed closely by “dispute resolution.”

全球已知的最大黑帮名为山口组，它与其他几个日本团伙被统称为“日本极道”，意思类似于美国的“黑手党”。根据前日本国家警察局长菅沼宏光的介绍，山口组的最大收入来源是毒品贸易，其次是赌博和敲诈，“摆平纠纷”紧随其后。

The Yakuza date back hundreds of years, and according to Dennis McCarthy, author of An Economic History of Organized Crime, Yakuza groups are among the most centralized in the world. While other East Asian gangs like Chinese Triads, which are a loose conglomeration of criminals bonded together mostly by familial relations, Yakuza are bound together by “elaborate hierarchies,” and members, once initiated, must subvert all other allegiances in favor of the Yakuza. Even with the Japanese government cracking down on Yakuza in recent years, this centralized structure has made it easy to attribute a massive amount of revenue to this single gang.