For the state must be seen to flex its muscles and bring these free spirits back into line, or it will lose credibility. Such is the high profile chasing of money laundering. Businessmen may have been sensible in the past to conspire in such political acts, when politicians were men of honour, when they were a caste with a highly developed sense of pride and a sense of shame. In today's so-called democratic countries, the only entry qualification onto the greasy pole of politics is a willingness to kiss babies and then to kiss backsides. Organized crime knows this - when organized crime wants something done it doesn't talk to politicians, it buys them.
Business too has learned the lesson, only they call it lobbying.
With degenerate politicians at the helm, the wreck of the nation state is inevitable. After all, decriminalizing drugs means not only that traffickers lose their profits, but also drug enforcement officers lose their jobs. In much of the world the population at large has been betrayed by its politicians and so it looks to organized crime and warlords for security. The state spreads the lie that organized crime will lead to anarchy and social collapse, but nothing could be further from the truth. When a Mafia family runs a neighbourhood, little old ladies don't get mugged on the street - their justice, and they do have a sense of justice, is a morality based on honour, tribute and retribution, and this is finding increasing respect and a ready allegiance among those disillusioned by widespread degeneracy in the body politic.