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Insight: Jeans And Shoes Show Criminal Underbelly Of China-Eu Trade


Ron Burgundy
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Containers are seen at Naples harbourBy Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - The importer, a front man for the Calabrian mafia, tells the Chinese seller, who speaks fluent Italian and lives in Rome, that he wants to fix a lower price on the next shipment. Their business is not drugs or weapons, but Chinese T-shirts, jeans and shoes. The buyer for the mob in Italy's impoverished south wants to declare a falsely low price to reduce the customs duties he must pay because, as he says in a wiretap, "it goes to the state". ...




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