The Miri clan is less about directly related people than about members and descendants of a specific ethnic group, the Mhallami.
It is estimated that, in the city of Bremen alone, the group makes approximately €50 million each year from drug-related crime.
[8] The families are particularly active in Hannover, Hildesheim, Stade, Achim, Wilhelmshaven, Peine, Göttingen, Osnabrück, Braunschweig, Salzgitter, Hameln, Lüneburg, Bremen and Delmenhorst[citation needed].
In July 2019, a Bandidos hairdresser was shot in Dortmund by a member of the Miri family[citation needed].
[9] In 2024 a 34-year old Miri clan member murdered a men of the rival Al-Zein crime family on a public street in Stade, close to Hamburg.
In 2017, he offered a bounty for information about the whereabouts of an unknown person who had called him and the Berlin rapper Bushido “sons of bitches”.
When French investigators decrypted the communications in 2020, several members of the Miri gang were accused of crimes and some were convicted[citation needed].
The head of the Miri drug trade, Esmat E., had previously fled to Spain because he was being searched for with an international arrest warrant.
[16] The Miri criminal gang uses real estate and legal businesses to launder money mainly in the cities of Dortmund and Bremen.
The Miri gang had managed to infiltrate an informant in the anti-money laundering authority of the Federal Ministry of Finance, which is subordinate to customs.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) collects and analyzes suspicious activity reports in accordance with the Money Laundering Act.