Organized crime has been conceived as originating from regions in Italy, including Calabria, Naples, Sicily, and so on. Investigators have mapped out networks demonstrating the centrality and concentration of mafialinked firms, with the construction industry as a key commercial locus of illicit structured groups of criminals. Thus, in Sicily, at least, organized crime groups are linked to one another via counterparty and associated financial transactions. Emerging technology from the arXiv (2014). This is not especially surprising as construction provides the opportunity for a significant level of financial extortion (e.g., paying for protection and other parasitic conduct) involving trades with fairly low ...
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