The most successful criminals operate in the shadows, blending into the fabric of our every day lives and hiding behind the seemingly legal businesses we walk past every day on our way to work.
They aren’t ageing Eastend gangsters reliving their glory years on a podcast or Albanian hoods bragging about their new Mercedes G-Wagon on TikTok.
The Chinese triads like to run their British businesses as if they are ‘invisible’.
But their vast empire, spanning across all of our major cities, has been described by one detective as ‘without doubt the largest and most sophisticated criminal network in the UK’.
In an exclusive feature The Crime Desk speaks to former triad members to investigate the main players ruling the roost on our streets, their plan for domination in Europe and the key symbols that reveal whether YOUR favourite restaurant is run by gangsters.
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