This way of looking at criminal organizations makes it clear that the difference between them and the legal economy is thin ice, especially in the upper echelons. This is not surprising. Criminal economy is part of the official economy and related to it. Corruption To bribe is easier than to kill. What's more, the risks of killing officials, especially police officers, are high.
Corruption is the more sophisticated way.
The bigger the criminal volume as part of the legal economy, the greater the criminal involvement in legal business. And when officials are aware of that involvement, or ought to be, there is by definition a case of corruption. When the criminal volume increases, corruption will increase out of all proportions. Public officials, especially police and customs officers, are the target of corruption. Corruption has to be recognised as the first serious menace to Western democracies.