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10:33 AM 5/3/2023 - Post Link How the war split the mafia posted at 14:27:39 UTC via economist.com Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war A leksandr otdelnov owns an unusual tourist attraction: a smuggling museum. Contraband has been flowing through his native Odessa since the 18th century. Until it closed because of covid-19, the museum displayed everything from pearls and pistols sneaked into imperial Russia to more contemporary loot. Then came the war in February 2022. “The port stopped working, and everything stopped,” says Mr Otdelnov. It wasn’t just the tourist flows that ended. Odessa had been a key node in a vast network of crime centred on Ukraine and Russia that reached from Afghanistan to the Andes. It was part of the “strongest criminal ecosystem in Europe”, reckons the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime ( gitoc ), a think-tank. Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS...
