According to experts, the Sicilian mafia generates an annual turnover of 40 billion euros. This means that it generates two percent of Italy’s gross domestic product and significantly more than large companies such as national energy companies Enel and Eni.
The main “business branches” are still drug trafficking, extortion, usury and protection money. The Mafia also thrives throughout Italy through prostitution and the arms trade.
The most dangerous thing is the increasing penetration of the “godparents” into normal economic life. Only a few provinces in southern Italy are immune to the presence of mafia structures. Italy’s shadow economy was estimated at a total of €157 billion, of which €62.4 billion is due to undeclared work, according to a study by the research center of the CGIA craft association.
Mafia boss caught
The Italian state won an important victory in the fight against organized crime last week. For example, the number one of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested. The boss had been on the run for 30 years.
Source: Krone
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