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economist sun stoumle tribune saturday oct 9 1999 5 police russian and asian gangs may be flexing muscles in york region markham men arrested in raid m gloljol pel food yy save 15 off all accessories all year round only with i kaff infosmmkwf ec6n6ffistsun stouffinlutnme 6w21o0 by christopher douris staff writer a new combined russian and asian gang may be flexing its muscle in york region a couple of markham residents were among the 16 people arrested by toronto police in 16 drug and weapons raids aimed at eastern european and asian gangs york regional police were not involved in the raids tuesday night and they werent aware of the sixmonth investigation that discovered the two ethnic gangs were merging toronto officers seized substantial quantities of heroin cocaine marijuana and ecstasy with an estimated street value of 1 million as well as sev eral handguns replica firearms and counterfeit canadian currency york regional police were riot the only depart ment left out of the loop a member of the newmarket rcmpbased combined forces special enforcement unit which specializes in eastern european crime investigations said he was not aware of the raids either his squad which draws from the rcmp opp peel york and toronto departments and is the only outfit actively investigating eastern european crime gangs was not aware the ethnic gangs were working together criminal partnerships but not everyone was surprised by the emerging trend this is a criminal partnership organized crime expert antonio nicaso said different ethnicbased crime groups working together is the natural evolution of the under- world in canada we have 18 different organized crime groups in canada the best way to succeed is to put together experience and expertise thats the trend in a couple of provinces includ ing quebec ontario and british columbia he said their first target is their own community now they enlarge the spectrum of the their activity and their actions the next step is to go out and target the market at large this is a natural evolution of crime said nicaso who has written a book about organized crime in canada i predicted this scenario five years ago when people would not believe it common language is money there is an organization in montreal called the consortium which has representation from the sicilian mafia hells angels motorcycle gang the colombian cartel and the westend gang it fixes the price of drugs in the city nicaso said this is a very scary trend he said before you faced one organized crime group at a time now there is no language barrier any more he explained that all the gangs in canada use english they have a common language and a common goal money asian gangs and the russian mob have been active in york region for the past decade in march police raided 16 homes and business es in vaughan richmond hill newmarket and other gta communities as part of an investigation of what investigators called leading figures in eastern european organized crime 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