How the Italian mafia makes millions from tinned tomatoes

Опубликовано: 12 Август 2026
на канале: It's Complicated
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If your tinned tomatoes come from southern Italy, it’s likely that organised crime had a hand in getting them from the farm to the supermarket shelf.
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The mafia controls much of the region's agribusiness, and it's big business, adding billions of euros to its yearly turnover. So how is the mafia making all this money, when tinned tomatoes are so cheap? Based on original reporting by Tobias Jones and Ayo Awokoya, Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates.

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