How much money do the ?Ndrangheta mafia make?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The ?Ndrangheta are one of Italy?s biggest and most dangerous criminal gangs. One piece of research suggested they have an annual turnover of ?53bn - more than McDonalds and Deutsche Bank combined.
But is that number realistic? Professor Anna Sergi and Professor Francesco Calderoni help us figure out what kind of number makes sense.
Reporter: Perisha Kudhail Series producer: Tom Colls Sound mix: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
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| 0:50.2 | Our question today is all about the Italian mafia. Last year, 200 gang members from the notorious and drangeta gang were convicted in Italy of various crimes, |
| 1:01.3 | including drug trafficking, extortion and theft. |
| 1:04.7 | But it was an estimate of the economic scale of their operations that caught the eye of loyal listener Michael Gallagher. |
| 1:12.0 | Recent reports on the maxi trial of the Italian mafia, the Andrangeta, report their annual |
| 1:17.4 | turnover as 53 billion euros, supposedly more than Deutsche Bank and McDonald's combined. |
| 1:24.5 | Find it very hard to believe that an organised crime group, even one as decentralised |
| 1:29.7 | as the Andrangita, could collectively earn this much. So first things first, if this criminal |
| 1:35.7 | gang did have a turnover of 53 billion euros, which is 58 billion dollars, then that would |
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