The Four Seas Gang, or FSG (四海幫, or ''Si Hai Bang'') is a triad society based in

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and founded in May 1954. It includes mainland Chinese and their descendants who fled to Taiwan with the KMT. The Four Seas Gang has an estimated membership 10,000 in Taiwan. Its members have extended their influence to cities in the southern region of

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

. Its American constituents are a branch off of the original

society. There are also smaller factions that are merely

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s, warring with other gangs of low notoriety. Four Seas Gang is active in alien smuggling in Southern California. Their territories are mainly Los Angeles and Santa Ana California. They use the color grey for their individual clothing for the gang.

Historical leadership

Boss (official and acting)

*1954-1962 — "Big Feng" Feng Chu-yu *1971-1986 — "Wei-Min" Liu Wei-min *1986?-1994? — "King Tsai" Tsai Kuan-lun *1990?-1994? — "Big Bao" Chen Yung-ho *1994?-1997 — "King Chao" Chao Ching-hua **Acting 1997-2000 — "Kuang-Nan" Yang Kuang-nan *2000-2008 — "Old Chia" Chia Jun-nien *2008-2010 — "Kid Chang" Chang Chien-ying *2010-2012 — "Young Kay" Yang Yu-pin *2012-2021 — "De-Yun" Yang Te-yun *2021-present — "Chun-Wei" Chang tsun-wei

Organization

Since the 1950s development, Four Seas Gang organization has 86 branches, members and partner relations up to 50,000 people.

External links

Organized Crime in California

Police in Shanghai arrest Taiwanese criminal gang head ''Taipei Times'' Staff Writer (Nov. 9, 2000)

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