“Los capitales mafiosos consiguen grandes beneficios de la crisis financiera global y les permite infiltrarse en manera capilar en la economía legal. En un artículo publicado en el diario The New York Times que ha tenido una enorme repercusión mundial, y que también fue reproducido por el matutino La Repubblica de Roma, el escritor napolitano Roberto Saviano, de 33 años, (condenado a muerte por la camorra a raíz del contenido de su libro “Gomorra”, que solo en Italia ha vendido casi tres millones de copias), ha causado un shock profundo en el mundo de las finanzas al brindar amplias pruebas de la creciente convivencia entre el sistema bancario internacional y la criminalidad organizada mafiosa mundial.”
http://www.clarin.com/mundo/mafia-crisis-global-expandir-negocios
http://www.robertosaviano.it/articoli/where-the-mob-keeps-its-money/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/where-the-mob-keeps-its-money.html :
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Spain’s crisis, like Greece’s, was prefaced by years of mafia power and money and a lack of effectively enforced rules and regulations. At the moment, Spain is colonized by local criminal groups as well as by Italian, Russian, Colombian and Mexican organizations. Historically, Spain has been a shelter for Italian fugitives, although the situation changed with the enforcement of pan-European arrest warrants. Spanish anti-mafia laws have also improved, but the country continues to offer laundering opportunities, which only increased with the current economic crisis in Europe.
The Spanish real estate boom, which lasted from 1997 to 2007, was a godsend for criminal organizations, which invested dirty money in Iberian construction. Then, when home sales slowed and the building bubble burst, the mafia profited again — by buying up at bargain prices houses that people put on the market or that otherwise would have gone unsold.
In 2006, Spain’s central bank investigated the vast number of 500-euro bills in circulation. Criminal organizations favor these notes because they don’t take up much room; a 45-centimeter safe deposit box can fit up to 10 million euros. In 2010, British currency exchange offices stopped accepting 500-euro bills after discovering that 90 percent of transactions involving them were connected to criminal activities. Yet 500-euro bills still account for 70 percent of the value of all bank notes in Spain. (…)”
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/02/western-banks-colombian-cocaine-trade:
Anti-Drugs Policies In Colombia: Successes, Failures And Wrong Turns, edited by Alejandro Gaviria and Daniel Mejía, Ediciones Uniandes, 2011
