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East Cell Organized Crime is a collective of several nationalities, who have grouped up to assert themselves over in many fields, such as, mainly: drug trafficking, clean-up services, prostitution and sometimes, but rarely; gun running. Comprised of several crews, with an upper echelon who directs orders down to the captains, it is a heavily organized crime organization with ties to legally-run businesses. Legal enterprises, finances and connections to the public sector allow for ECO to exist within a legal and illegal boundary. Formed, allegedly by a Russian immigrant, the organization aims to capitalize off the riches of the West Coast, while not being particularly commanding of each set, instead having a councilman for each set present. The ranking structure, while not yet thoroughly researched by Federal Authorities due to how recent the group is, suggests that ECO uses the same hierarchy structure that any other OCS uses, meaning that someone stands at the top, and directs orders down to a sub level and then towards a large or medium set of captains, who each control their own crew. What is unique about the structure, authorities found through a bit of research, is that most of the upper men are hard-core nationals of their respective countries, and were brought in through business visas to oversee operations in a massive scale, due to their experience and seniority. ECO's leadership, albeit unknown, has had a couple of leaks, which in turn led the authorities to four suspects: Viktor Tatarin, Harry Donovan, Ivan Morozov and Joseph Rivers, all of the men are suspected to have their own crews operating under their wing, supplying them with drugs to sell - and firearms to protect themselves with. 2020: The disappearance of ADAM BELTON In 2020, a security guard working for AZTEC Security had mysteriously disappeared following a verbal confrontation at La Spada. Last seen heading towards North Vinewood, ADAM BELTON was never seen again, while eye witnesses report Singletons as a prime suspect location, the case was dismissed due to a frightening lack of evidence. The only reason the case had been picked up to begin with, was because the mysterious circumstances that led to the disappearance of the guard were suspected to be at the hands of his own superiors. The case has been cold, and the victim was never found. ECO mainly paddles in drug trafficking, but conforms to traditional white collar crime and money laundering, due to the amount of businesses engulfed by the group. Night clubs, airsoft, breweries allow for the group to place an otherwise undocumented amount of money into a business, allowing all of the proceeds and the fruits of labor to be disguised as legal, taxable income. ECO focuses heavily on paying taxes and in order to keep the authorities from snooping into the illegal proceedings, makes paying the taxes a first priority for all of it's higher end members. The group tends to be lenient towards anyone distanced away from the initial objective or targets, and works very hard and efficiently towards not touching or hurting the LSPD or LSSD in any form or capacity, the penalty for shooting a law enforcement agent within the group would likely end very horribly for the offender. In general, the group tends to be very careful with who they decide to attack, kill or mess with, as public attention is usually not worth the trouble - this goes double for women, children and just in general innocent folk who happen to be at the wrong place or the wrong time.