The Hutt Cartel, also known as the Hutt Clan, Hutt Syndicate, Hutt Crime Syndicate, Hutt Cartels or Hutt Clans, was a powerful Hutt criminal family in the Outer Rim Territories of the galaxy, making riches through smuggling and myriad illegal businesses across worlds. Aside from its criminal activity, the Hutt Cartel ruled over swathes of territories known as Hutt Space. After the devastating civil war known as the Hutt Cataclysms, the Hutt Empire collapsed, the Hutts clans reestablished themselves the Hutt Cartel under the leadership of Budhila Hestilic Amura who adopted a new philosophy known as kajidic, a renunciation of war and conquest, instead advocating indirect control through commerce.*