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MILAN – Organized crime in Italy controls agricultural and food businesses worth 12.5-billion euros (US$16-billion) a year, or 5.6% of all criminal operations in the country, according to a parliamentary investigation presented on Thursday.
Organized crime has spread its involvement through the entire food chain from acquisition of farmland to production, from transport to supermarkets, Italy’s biggest farmers group, Coldiretti, said in a statement.
“Italians find an additional invitee at their table: criminal organizations that eat up what Italians should have eaten,” Coldiretti quoted Italy’s chief anti-Mafia criminal organizations Pietro Grasso as saying on the sidelines of the presentation. Read More
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