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Zsolt Reile
" Hungary serves as a base for both national and foreign criminal groups that had become well established in the country by the mid-1990s, with mainly Russian-speaking Slavic groups taking control of the markets for illicit goods. Due to the rapid political and social changes that followed the fall of the Soviet bloc, criminal groups quickly made financial gains and established their positions. As a result, they did not go through the kind of organisational and operative development experienced by groups such as the Italian or US Mafia. Perhaps as a consequence, most Hungarian organised crime groups tend to be less hierarchical, more fragile and at the same time more prone to violence in order to maintain or take control of illicit operations than some of their counterparts. Several factors make Hungary attractive to organised crime groups." [Sub required]