Italy controlled by mafia

According to the report published by Daily Mail, the crisis did not affect Italian mafia which seems to be in really good shape. 

Organised crime is very profitable business in Italy, it gives almost 100 bilion euro profit per annum. Its traditional forms of earning money is, thanks to the crisis, getting less profitable than their new business. 

The report reveals that mafia's new source of income are expensive loans given to companies. Marco Venturi, president of Confesercenti - an association of small- and medium-sized companies, and publisher of the report - described the Mafia as 'the biggest bank in the country'. In his opinion more than 190,000 businesses had been forced to shut in the past three years, as a result of extortion and loan sharking.

Due to the report, loans are easier and more profitable than drug running, arms smuggling, prostitution or gambling. What is more, most important players are interested in Italy's capital - Rome: 

• Sycylian mafia - created in 19th centrury widely known as Cosa Nostra (green),

• Camorra - decentralized and conflicted structure from Campania (orange),

• 'Ndrangheta - connected with Calabria (blue), considered as one of the most powerful crime organisations in the world

• Sacra Corona Unita - the youngest one, the strongest especially in Apulia (yellow) and in Albania, 

Italian mafia joins the exclusive and elitist club of the crisis beneficiaries. When we take a look on growing power and influence of several states in the world, we must give credits to popular Polish aforist and script-writer Andrzej Majewski, who noticed that: "well organised criminal group is being called mafia, best organised mafia is being called the state".

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