Drug Enforcement Administration Strike Forces detained nine reputed members of a Brooklyn-based Russian organized crime syndicate, The New York Post reported.

The defendants, who reported to and took orders from their bosses in the former Soviet Union, were all charged with extortion, drug trafficking, loansharking, illegal gambling and extortionate debt collection.

Law enforcers found eight of the Russian mobsters in Brighton Beach and Coney Island, where they operated by their own rules and laws that terrorized the Eastern European citizens of those neighborhoods — and often times resulted in the use of physical violence.

In particular, the syndicate would collect on millions of dollars in outstanding debts by extorting payments in the U.S. while threatening victims and their family members living abroad.

During pre-trial proceedings, none of defendants admitted the guilt.