What are some of the organized criminal groups that this chapter discusses? What kinds of activities do they engage in?

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This chapter discusses a variety of organized crime groups of different nationalities:

• Eurasian organized criminal organizations are heavily involved in health care fraud, auto insurance fraud, securities and investment fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, extortion, auto theft, and interstate transportation of stolen property as well as human smuggling and prostitution.
• Balkan criminal enterprises are involved in activities such as gambling, money laundering, drug trafficking, human smuggling, extortion, violent witness intimidation, robbery, attempted murder, and murder, and recently have expanded into more sophisticated crimes including real estate fraud.
• Asian criminal enterprises conduct traditional racketeering activities: extortion, murder, kidnapping, illegal gambling, prostitution, and loan-sharking. They also smuggle aliens, traffic in heroin and methamphetamine, commit financial fraud, steal automobiles and computer chips, produce counterfeit computer and clothing products, and launder money.
• African criminal enterprises, particularly Nigerian groups, are primarily engaged in drug trafficking and financial fraud.
• Middle Eastern criminal groups engage in automobile theft, financial fraud, money laundering, interstate transportation of stolen property, smuggling, drug trafficking, document fraud, health care fraud, identity fraud, cigarette smuggling, and the theft and redistribution of infant formula.