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===Loan sharking=== In a 2007 publication, the Italian small-business association Confesercenti reported that about 25.2% of Sicilian businesses were indebted to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loan_shark loan sharks], who collected around β¬1.4 billion a year in payments.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-149">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-149 [149]]</sup> This figure has risen during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-2000s_recession late-2000s recession], as tighter lending by banks forces the desperate to borrow from the Mafia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-eur090309_150-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-eur090309-150 [150]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-gua230709_151-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#cite_note-gua230709-151 [151]]</sup>
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