0 money that criminals take from people in exchange for agreeing not to hurt them or damage their property --
It smacks of protection money and nothing more.
Paramilitary forces were intimidating builders and demanding protection money from them.
In one country not so very far away from here, up to 70 % of companies pay protection money to crime syndicates.
The payment of the political levy is no more and no less than the extraction of protection money.
They should check up on all the miscellaneous expenditure by contractors, many of whom are still paying protection money.
There are allegations of drug dealing, of robbery, of rackets, of intimidation and of protection money, to name just a few.
People in vulnerable areas who do not want their property taken in this way will be willing to pay protection money.
If one pays the protection money, one goes bust.
