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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Ahem, lessee... Too fresh a market, too swift a move-in. No room for expansion, so no incentive to fight for that room, either. Up till the late eighties, we had virtually zero street prositution. The few big brothels were secretly run by state bigwigs, not by profit-making illegal organizations. Then the former Soviet borders opened up. Now the prostitutes come mainly from or through Estonia, and the organizations that run the business reside there, and car-bomb each other there. Finland is just where the actual beds are, so there's nothing worth bombing on this end. Drugs aren't worth fighting over, either. Finland is not a big enough market, and what goes through here in one direction or another is peanuts compared with eastern Europe. And there's lots of extra expenses in attempting to corrupt the Finnish police - which, unlike the colleagues farther south, isn't short of money by any standard. I think Nordic cops are among the cleanest in Europe. And Finland is the least corrupted country in the world, according to [URL=http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/]Transparency Int'l[/URL]. Motorcycle gangs make noise and sometimes kill each other. But they aren't organized beyond their silly banners. Nor is there the sort of commercial terrorism that plagues some parts of Europe, like the "Dagobert" ("Scrooge McDuck") poisoner of Germany. Business extortion is small-scale and not very serious because it can't be easily kept hidden - the silence of the shopkeeper will guarantee nothing in an open enough society. So payments will be one-off at most and then the gig is up. About the only area where the Russian mafia actively operates is car theft. And even though our border is very long and very lightly guarded, it's damn difficult to get the cars across - there aren't any side roads to use (at least not if you want the cars to arrive semi-intact), and the checkpoints on the main roads are finally getting their act together now. It's much easier to take the cars through central and eastern Europe. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]

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