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The U.S. has asked Australia to extradite Ian Taylor, a business registration agent whose family set up firms used by organizations including the Islamist militant group Hezbollah, and Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel.

The duumvirate fell apart in October following the assassination of mafia boss Stavros Demosthenous in Limassol.

In the 1990s, bodybuilder László Kovács worked for Igor Korol, one of the most influential organized criminals in Budapest. Korol, meanwhile, reported to the Russian underworld’s top boss, Semion Mogilevich.

Blending into the crowds of tourists and office workers who pack the Tube every day, they are gang leaders in disguise who believe they are untouchable.