Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Thuggee, Triad, Indian Mafia, Secret Societies in Singapore, Salakau, Hai San Secret Society, Snakehead, Gang Wars Between Chota Rajan and Dawood Ibrahim, D-Company, Kala Kaccha Gang, Ghee Hin Kongsi, Wah Kee, Ah Kong, Big Circle Gang, Four Seas, Ang Soon Tong. Excerpt: Singapore Mafia Ah Kong is an organized crime gang with Singapore origins. It was based in Amsterdam and Bangkok but had operations in other European cities and the Asia-Pacific, and used to control the European heroin trade in the 1970s to 1990s. Ah Kong which means 'The Company' or short for Kongsi, has never been based in Singapore. It is also known to have Malaysian members and have Thai and Indonesian connections, and over the years they had built strong ties with the infamous Penang based Sio Sam Ong . Most of the members of Ah Kong are Singaporeans and the members continue to speak Hokkien although they were European and Thailand based. It was formed when several members of See Tong (The police have classified the See Tong as one of the most well organized gang in Singapore and many of their gang members escaped the country before the police catch them for their crimes) which means 'Buddies' killed and injured members of their rival gang, Pek Kim Leng (White Gold Dragon), in a gang clash, and escaped to Holland. Most of them are of Hainanese origin from a Hainanese village at Upper Serangoon. They were later joined by others whom are non See Tong members and were known to have received National Service military training back in Singapore. After the assassination of the Ah Kong boss in 1997 they had began to lose their influence to the Sin Ma gang based in Rotterdam lead by a Singapore fugitive wanted for first degree murder with a fire-arm in the 1980s. The last official Ah Kong boss died in March 2010. ...
