The Bandidos Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle gang designated by the U.S. Department of Justice, involved in drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, murder, and other serious crimes. Active primarily in the Northwestern, Southeastern, Southwestern, and West Central regions of the United States, with an estimated 800 to 1,000 members across 16 states. The club has been supplied with drugs by Los Zetas and has associated with the Outlaws, while rivaling groups such as the Hells Angels and Mongols.
CRIMENET has extracted 274 linkages for this organization, including 73 cooperative ties across 22 organizations, 153 conflicts across 52 organizations, 48 other connections and footprints in 22 countries.
Australia's first Bandidos chapter was formed in Sydney in August 1983. The club has around 400 members and 45 chapters in the country...
The club operated in Canada between 2000 and November 2007, with chapters in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec.
The Bandidos have ten chapters and approximately one-hundred-and-fifty members in Denmark...
The Bandidos are the largest motorcycle club in Finland, with around two-hundred-and-forty members and fourteen chapters.
The Bandidos' first chapter in Europe was founded in Marseille on 20 September 1989
The Bandidos expanded into Germany in June 2000 when the club 'patched over' seventeen chapters of the Ghostrider's, Road Eagles and Destroyers
The first Bandidos chapter in Ireland was formed in Limerick in October 2016.
The first Bandidos chapter in the Netherlands was established in Sittard on 15 March 2014 following a patch-over of a No Surrender chapter...
New Zealand's first Bandidos chapter was founded in South Auckland in 2012 by club members deported from Australia. A second chapter was established after the club patched over a branch of the Rock Machine in Christchurch in November 2013.
The club has five chapters and approximately forty members in the country. The Bandidos were founded in Norway in 1995 during the Nordic Biker War...
On 24 March 2018, a group of Bandidos members meeting at a restaurant in Prior Velho were attacked by approximately twenty members of the Hells Angels armed with knives, sticks, iron bars and hammers.
The club has eight chapters in Sweden and has prominently recruited members of non-Swedish ethnicity.
On 11 May 2019, Bandidos members clashed with members of the Zürich Hells Angels chapter and the Broncos... in Belp.
The Bandidos operate seven chapters in Thailand.
Benjamin Parry, an 'active member' of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, who was driving a Ford Transit van... Crawford... was dragged underneath the van...
The Bandidos are supplied with drugs by Los Zetas
the Bandidos formed a chapter in Costa Rica
Estonia
Greece
Chapters were then founded in Italy in 2001
The club further expanded to Malaysia and Singapore in 2006
The club further expanded to Malaysia and Singapore in 2006