The Skar'kla Consortium was a criminal organization which existed shortly before the Clone Wars, at which time it was lead by a young Bothan crime lord named Akris Ur'etu.
Prior to the Clone Wars, the Skar'kla Consortium was taken over by a young Bothan named Akris Ur'etu. Various Hutt criminals attempted to take control of Skar'kla territory while Ur'etu was in control; eventually, one of them hired a bounty hunter to impersonate a Jedi and harass Skar'kla operations and then kill Ur'etu. To defend himself from what he believed was a Jedi, Ur'etu hired the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane to kill the assassin. Bane however allowed the bounty hunter to kill Ur'etu before defeating him in turn and making a deal to collect the crime lord's bounty himself and be taught how to make the imposter's equipment.
The Skar'kla Consortium first appeared in the short story Reputation which was written by Ari Marmell and published in Star Wars Insider 136 in 2012.
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