Sentence examples for mafia system from inspiring English sources

But the prosecutors say that, though battered, the Mafia system still works.

"I don't know if we can call it a mafia system but it is a system of corruption.

We are on a mission to secure fair elections that will put an end to the mafia system of government in Astrakhan".

The young Crocetta began to move away from the church and later joined the Communist Party, which stood for the rule of law and resistance against the Mafia system.

"Just because I did some stupid things doesn't mean I should have to pay for a mafia system of which I wasn't the motor," he was quoted as saying.

They prospered, not by building new businesses, but by suffocating existing ones and picking up the pieces or sucking money out of the state.In the mid-1990s YeGaidaridar, the architect of Russian market reforms, feared that the repressive Soviet bureaucracy could morph into a mafia system.

Once the hornet's nest was kicked, the killing accelerated as Guzmán laid claim to the whole frontier (previously allocated by his predecessor Gallardo) and the army and police established mafia systems of their own, often in league with one cartel or another.

Sammy the Bull is not a fan, his daughter said, apparently because he is still loyal to a Mafia caste system of who is a made member or who is not.

"We think there is very strong, anti-mafia infiltration system," she said.

This plays into the hands of Ms Le Pen, who has denounced a "mafia-style system".

"It was a mafia-like system," said N. Santosh Hegde, a former justice on India's Supreme Court who spent more than two years investigating illegal mining in Karnataka as an independent state-level ombudsman.