1.   There are rival cliques within the army, mafia gangs and important family clans, who have scores to settle, wealth to dispute, power claims to assert.

2.   Greek police want the multinational force to guard the Albanian side of a key southern border crossing, where mafia gangs regularly fight each other and rob travelers.

3.   International mafia gangs.

4.   The scandal broke earlier this month when a Moscow newspaper ran photos purporting to show Kovalyov in a sauna allegedly frequented by a mafia gang.

5.   Garrod has linked the evictions to mafia gangs motivated by the price-tag on apartments, which can be worth thousands of dollars.

6.   The prime suspect for the shooting was still North Korea, but police later raised the possibility of retaliation by a Russian mafia gang.

7.   Vitale, believed to lead the Magliana mafia gang in Rome, was unarmed and tried to flee when apprehended, but police managed to catch him.

8.   South Korean police Wednesday pointed to the possibility of a Russian mafia gang being involved in the shooting of a North Korean defector here.