Officials in Italy believe the Mafia is using the pandemic to recruit people desperately in need of help
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the most feared groups in Mexico, distributed aid to eight municipalities in the state of San Luis Potosí.The head of the gang is Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera Cervantes, who is at the top of the most wanted list of the US Drug Enforcement Agency .reported that the Gulf Cartel, which is active in the northeastern and western states of Mexico, also reportedly delivered aid to 200 poor families in these regions.
Italy, which is one of the worst affected countries in the world, is struggling to provide its citizens with the help they need during the crisis. “We know that ‘families of friends’, all of them loan sharks, are making themselves available to give money to the people in difficulty,” said Amedeo Scaramella, using a euphemism by which the clans of the Camorra criminal syndicate are known.
He told Reuters the sharks start by offering loans at rates that compete with banks and later entrap borrowers by driving them up to 300 percent.
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