![]() ![]() ![]() By 2004, its annual revenue had reached 30 billion euro, equivalent to one third of the 90 billion euro total annual revenue for Italian organized crime groups estimated by Confesercenti, one of the leading business associations in Italy. Its members call themselves "men of honour", although the public often refers to them as "mafiosi". ![]() ![]() Each group, known as a "family", "clan", or " cosca", claims sovereignty over a territory, usually a town or village or a neighbourhood ( borgata) of a larger city, in which it operates its rackets. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering. Sicilian Mafia The Sicilian Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra, in English "Our Thing") is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy. ![]()
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