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Perhaps the best known patron-client networks are the Sicilian and Italian American Cosa Nostra, most commonly known as the Sicilian Mafia.

The Neopolitan Camorra, the Calabrian and Italian Canadian ' Ndrangheta, and the Apulian Sacra Corona Unita are similar Italian organized crime groups.

Other organized enterprises include the Russian mafia, Albanian Mafia, Irish mob, Chinese Triads, and the Japanese Yakuza.