Die italienische Mafia kann vor allem in Zeiten des Credit-Squeeze profitieren. Waehrend Unternehmen pleite gehen und Bewertungen in den Keller rauschen, weil es an legalen (bankfinanzierten) Investitionen fehlt, kann die Mafia mit ihren Bargeldreserven ganze Unternehmenslandschaften billigst aufkaufen.
“The Mafia is ramping up its investing,” says Antonino Di Matteo, a fellow Mafia prosecutor whose bodyguard stands watch outside his office door in the Sicilian capital’s fascist-era courthouse. “The Mafia’s financial managers are trying to invest now,...”
Italy’s cash-depleted banks may be helping the Mafia become even stronger, says Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations’ Vienna-based Office on Drugs and Crime.
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