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Dirty money often comes to tourist or coastal areas, like Malaga in Andalusia. (Photo: bvi4092)

Investigation

Mafia money pollutes the EU economy

Major profits from large-scale illegal activities have to be laundered to enter the so-called clean economy.

The money laundering itself is increasingly done by external specialised groups, which take a 5-8 percent cut for the service, Europol, the EU's police agency, says.

When only considering the Italian mafias, a 2016 report by the EU's judicial cooperation agency, Eurojust, notes their infiltration into the legitimate economy in "Spain (particularly favoured by the Italian ...

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