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Mafia groups are infiltrating and undermining Italy’s holiday industry, the tourism minister said on Thursday, pointing to a new report estimating that mobsters are laundering billions of euros through the sector.
Research group Demoskopika said the mafia was set to rake in around 2.2 billion euros ($2.64 billion) from the tourism sector this year and was preying on hotels and restaurants that were struggling to survive the coronavirus crisis.
“This is a worrying report. Mafia infiltration is heavily damaging a sector which has already been hurt by the pandemic,” Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia said in a statement.
Italy is home to several mafia groups, all headquartered in southern regions, including the ‘Ndrangheta, which is based in Calabria and has overtaken Sicily’s Cosa Nostra group to become the most powerful crime gang in the country.
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