Doing my daily reddit round before I start working in a few minutes, thought this was an interesting fact. Also, organized crime seems to make up 11% of the Italian GDP, which just seems insanely high.
While organized crime exists everywhere, I don’t understand why Italy seems to be such a unique case compared to seemingly any other European country (well, with the exception of countries like Montenegro maybe)
and the remaining protection money goes to the government.
Is this still a thing?
Ouch. Must be a hard situation of double burden, having to pay protection money / taxes to both the Mafia and the State.
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Doing my daily reddit round before I start working in a few minutes, thought this was an interesting fact. Also, organized crime seems to make up 11% of the Italian GDP, which just seems insanely high.
While organized crime exists everywhere, I don’t understand why Italy seems to be such a unique case compared to seemingly any other European country (well, with the exception of countries like Montenegro maybe)
and the remaining protection money goes to the government.
Is this still a thing?
Ouch. Must be a hard situation of double burden, having to pay protection money / taxes to both the Mafia and the State.
The 70% estimate is from 2009