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Italy's Mafia Uses the Old Lira as Its Own Parallel Currency
Italy’s proposed mini T-Bills may be pie in the sky for now, but it appears the country already has another currency floating around -- the old lira. A senior police officer revealed this week that domestic criminal organizations are still using the pre-euro currency for illicit transactions. It’s not clear how the former notes are ultimately exchanged for euros, if at all, though he said officers are still uncovering them. The lira ceased to be legal tender at the end of February 2002. “We still discover big amounts of liras,” Giuseppe Arbore, a deputy in the Guardia di Finanza, which investigates financial ... (full story)
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