Founded | Late 1990s |
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Founders | Zoran Manaskov bossot
Manaskov "Skrsheniot" Spase[1] |
Named after | City of Frankfurt in Germany |
Founding location | Veles, North Macedonia |
Years active | 1990s[2]-present |
Territory | North Macedonia, Austria, Germany |
Ethnicity | Macedonian |
Activities | Heroin trafficking, money laundering |
Rivals | Albanian mafia |
Notable members | Jordan Jordanovski "Rkulot" Kenan "Keno" Vejsilovic Tome Dimovski "Tomche" [3] |
The Frankfurt mafia[4] was a crime group from Veles, North Macedonia that was involved in the heroin trade in Frankfurt, Germany and Vienna, Austria.[5] It was part of the Macedonian mafia.
Boris Rhein, Hessen's Interior Minister stated that the Frankfurt mafia held about 90% of the drug trade market in Frankfurt for a couple of years.[6][7]
The Frankfurt mafia controlled 19 out of 24 blocks in Vienna's drug trade using intelligence methods.[8]
The traffickers had taken control of the heroin trade in Vienna in a short period of time.[9][10][11]