The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club whose members are alleged by law enforcement to engage in organized crime including drug trafficking, gunrunning, extortion, and human trafficking. Founded in 1948 in California, the club has chapters worldwide and claims to be a group of motorcycle enthusiasts. Despite ongoing criminal allegations and convictions, the club remains active and denies collective criminal involvement.
CRIMENET has extracted 500 linkages for this organization, including 195 cooperative ties across 94 organizations, 187 conflicts across 73 organizations, 118 other connections and footprints in 22 countries.
In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation.
The first charter to open outside California was established in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1961.
Members of the Spanish charter were involved in a killing and tried.
Europe did not become widely home to the Hells Angels until 1969 when two London charters were formed.
The Argentine branch of the HAMC was established with a charter in Buenos Aires on 16 June 1999.
The Austrian branch of the Hells Angels was established when the club formed a chapter in Vorarlberg in November 1975. The Vienna charter was later founded on 23 November 1985. The club has approximately 300 members in Austria.
Belgium became home to its first Hells Angels chapter in the summer of 1997...
The former Unionen officially became the first Scandinavian Hells Angels chapter on December 30, 1980, setting up chapters in Copenhagen's Titangade and Nørrebro districts.
The Hells Angels have 9 chapters and 130 members in Finland.
The first Hells Angels chapter in France was founded on 18 April 1981 ... The club has six French chapters.
The first German charter of the Hells Angels was founded in Hamburg ... The club consists of 69 chapters and 1,400 members in Germany.
The Icelandic Hells Angels moved their headquarters to Garðabær from Hafnarfjörður in February 2014 following a period of persistent police intervention.
In 2010, 2011 and 2013 the police conducted raids on the HAMC headquarters in Oslo and confiscated a number of illegal weapons in all the raids.
In July 2019, Portuguese prosecutors charged 89 members of Hells Angels with involvement in organized crime, attempted murder, robbery, drug trafficking...
...delivered it to St. Petersburg...
The first HAMC chapter in South Africa was founded in Johannesburg on 14 August 1993. Other charters were subsequently formed in the West Rand on 31 January 1994, Durban on 6 September 1997, and Cape Town on 13 June 1998.
Sweden is home to twelve Hells Angels chapters with 170 members and 230 official supporters.
Since 2012, Thailand has hosted Hells Angels nomads... A Pattaya chapter was founded in April 2016.
The newly founded Hells Angels Turkey denied the warning's content... around 20 Hells Angels Turkey members in Kadıköy, Istanbul attacked people...
Vancouver marine will continue to pose a high risk for the smuggling of precursor chemicals [for manufacturing methamphetamine] into Canada from China and India.
he started to smuggle cocaine into Canada from Columbia for the Hells Angels
The drug consignment, stored in waterproof packets hidden inside nine cast iron sewer pipes, had been transferred to the Fortune Endeavor after it rendezvoused in international waters with a ship that had left Venezuela.