I thought it would be cool to start up a thread concerning the Swiss organized crime scene , since that country rarely gets much mention , especially once you take away the ( now not so applicable if I'm not mistaken ) issue of it being a haven for money laundering .


Here's a somewhat old yet pertinent article to kick things off : https://www.thelocal.ch/20170606/italian-mafia-drug-lord-arrested-in-geneva-pizza-restaurant


Besides the Ndrangheta , I think I've read that the usual suspect Balkan/Middle Eastern outfits ( Albanians , Serbs , Kurds , and Turks ) are active over there as well and I'll try to dig up a few articles concerning them . Indigenous organized crime groups seem to be completely nonexistent though .

Albanians and 'ndrangheta are strong over there.

So is the girl wit the dragon tattoo

yeah there are not indigenous criminal grous, same in northern italy
in switzerland ndrangheta is the strongest followed by albanians and serbs

'Ndrangheta meeting in Switzerland, with English subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjXm4M3df90

There are groups of Swiss Yenish, which are indigenous people.

Not true, of course exist "Indigenous" networks.

Famous are Lange Gasse, Zürich (redlight district) and his Kingpins



Charly Hug (Karl Emil Hug)




Hans Peter Brunner (1945- 2005)

https://www.rwi.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-bd2f-a7a1-0000-0000776ae0a9/Bilanz_10_95.pdf (only in german)

Hells Angels Zürich is a powerhouse inside the Redlight scene.

never heard, are they a sort of gypsies? i wouldn't call gypsies 100% indigenous group anyway even if they lived there for decades

Ah it seems that I was mistaken then and thanks for correcting me .


Are the fellows mentioned above Yenish ? What sort of activities were they engaged in besides ( I assume ) prostitution ?

How strong are the Yenish within the Swiss underworld ? Also what are their main areas of profit making ?