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"Organised crime entails a substantial social cost in that it misappropriates and squanders resources, distorts the free common market, corrupts businesses and legal economic activities, promotes corruption, contaminates and destroys the environment, and violates human rights and the rules of democracy. The effects of this phenomenon have a strong impact on the European Union’s commitments towards its citizens. This is why the institutions must make a definite political effort to counter organised crime and produce significant, tangible results. Organised crime, especially mafia-style crime, is capitalising on globalisation, the abolition of borders in the EU, and the legislative differences among Member States, to make increasingly substantial profits, while ensuring, at the same time, that they go unpunished.
This has been made possible as organised crime has created an approval and support network, involving deep, extensive infiltration of the political world, civil service and legal economy. In Romania, a bill was recently adopted which makes loan sharking an offence punishable with a prison sentence of between six months and five years. At the same time, any money and goods obtained from this activity are confiscated. Loan sharking flourishes, particularly during an economic crisis, and destroys lives."@en1
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