Levels of extortion against business is up since Good Friday Agreement

Belfast Telegraph | November 30, 2006| | Copyright

The level of paramilitary extortion rackets has increased in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, a senior police analyst has claimed.Small businesses are being forced to pay up to Pounds 10,000 a month to paramilitaries who threaten them with violence and intimidation, according to Bridget Lloyd, assistant director of analytical services at the PSNI.Writing in the current edition of Economic Outlook And Business Review, Ms Lloyd said the sophistication of organised crime in Northern Ireland had been influenced significantly by paramilitary involvement.In an article ...

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