Reacher gets closer to the unseen enemy pulling the strings, leading him to the real perpetrators, a Russian gang masquerading as legitimate businessmen.

Western European and Russian gangs are also establishing themselves here, Polish law enforcement officials say.

There were also various clashes by Russian gangs in 1990 because Belarus was gaining independence.

Though the indictment reflects the rise of Russian criminal gangs, officials cautioned that these groups are often more loosely structured than the Italian Mafia.

The officer said that an informer had told the police that the site was robbed last fall, possibly by members of a Russian or Israeli gang.

The real perpetrators are members of a Russian gang masquerading as legitimate businessmen.

They have since started to put those laws into force, created a police unit for Russian gangs and become more cooperative with Russian investigators.

But the Russian gangs now flourishing in the West are different.

The arrival of the Russian gang in Argentina put their businesses at risk of competition.

Russian criminal gangs are rarely formed along ethnic lines.