Its revenue in 2009 increased by 3,7% - to $ 190 billion, and profit - by 8%, to $ 110 billion, the Italian authorities have promised to enhance hit mafia forfeiture.
Italian association of small and medium business Confesercenti provided data on the financial status of organized crime. Revenues criminal syndicates were higher sales of the country”s largest companies - oil corporation Eni SpA, and were equal to almost 9% of GDP. Bum around the business of the Italian mafia is taking place at what is happening in the country”s financial crisis and 4,8% the first economic downturn.
Experts estimate made based on data from police, businessmen and mafia informants in the environment, basic earnings ($ 95 billion) in criminal clans of Italy received from drug trafficking, people and weapons, as well as smuggling. In second place - government contracts, an underground gambling, counterfeiting money and documents, as well as the illegal supply of labor ($ 35 billion) Kryshuya about 20 thousand companies, organized crime groups have earned $ 33 billion on extortion and usury. At the robbery and fraud, had $ 1.4 billion and $ 840 million - for prostitution.
“Mafia inkorporeyshn” is not afraid and did not even know about the crisis. There is a risk that the mafia can take advantage of temporary difficulties of big business, suffer from a lack of liquidity in the stock market to gain control over it, “- wrote the Roman antiprestupnaya organization SOS Impresa.
success Mafia experts explain the fact that crime syndicates have a large reserve of cash, which is especially appreciated at a time when banks have frozen lending. According to experts, the syndicate ndrangeta Calabrian, Sicilian - Cosa Nostra, the Neapolitan - Camorra and the Apulian - Sacra Corona Unita - in 2009 have become more sought alternative to bank lending.
crisis also allowed mafiosi actively legalize shadow incomes by buying cheapened assets. In 2009, criminal groups have spent about $ 36 billion in investments. In addition, the syndicates have been easier to recruit cheap labor among jobs.
desire mafia clans to buy assets in the real economy has prompted Italian authorities to change the methods of combating crime. Yesterday, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy presented a new plan to destroy the extraordinary organized crime. “To combat the mafia to attack the assets of gangsters, and we focus on this effort. Some critics have ironically said that the syndicates are prepared to buy back confiscated their property on public auction. Excellent! This means that we can seize it again,” - said Silvio Berlusconi.
Premier announced the establishment of the Italian National Agency for Management of seized and confiscated property, which will be promptly re-execute the right to confiscated Mafia assets to local communities and institutions.
Government of Italy has a fairly successes against the Mafia. Last week was arrested the head of the clan of the Neapolitan Paolo di Mauro and seized property at $ 770 million, including 15 construction and asphalt companies, hundreds of real estate and vehicles. In just the past year and a half the authorities have confiscated from the mafia $ 12.5 billion
However, according to the leader of the opposition party, center-left Pierluigi Bersani, announced a plan - no more than a pre-election propaganda: “Whatever action the Government has not taken, they will be useless if Berlusconi”s allies in parliament will not cease to promote laws favorable to the development of the Mafia. Now they, in particular, seek to limit the ability of the police to tap telephones “.
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