Mafia in the United States each year through painting order tens of thousands of paintings imitation, all from Shenzhen Chinese.
Its real use once plagued FBI for a long time, once doubted that it was a new means of money laundering.
"Sicily and American Mafia in recent 10 years are buying fine imitation painting, usually is Da Vinci's" virgin of the rocks ", Rafael" seat in Notre Dame ", or" Rembrandt "this kind of icon paintings out of misery. "
"The flow of this kind of transaction is more than $3 million a year. "
"At first we didn't know why, but the source of the picture was not difficult to find. All the paintings are from the South China a place called Dafen village. "
"Oil painting merchants are only middlemen, helping buyers to place orders with suppliers, but each time they earn a staggering profit. "
7 years ago, successfully broke into the Chicago crime syndicate undercover Jo Luis, a traditional process quickly to the on-line reporting Mafia quantity purchase imitation painting ceremony for the reason.
But because the Mafia extreme "code of silence", in addition to undercover police and their superiors, never want outsiders to know the ceremony of mafia.
The key point of the law of silence is that no matter in any case, any secret in the organization can not be disclosed.
"This is the highest principle of Mafia, is the foundation of Changsheng, any member shall not be violated. The leaked person will be cleaned up. "
Until recently, FBI was based on the Italy police through the hidden camera videotaping the screen, published a detailed process of Sicily Mafia member initiation ceremonies.
This extremely mysterious ritual appearance, for the first time over a hundred years, has become an open demonstration from the street rumors.
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After the ceremony officially began, with a knife cut new partisan finger godfather, let the blood drip on a portrait of Catholic saints.
The godfather asks: "do you swear by the blood in front of a saint, and always follow the rules, not to betray the family? "
The new party: "I swear. "
The light icon said: "the sage witness, if you betray, is like a saint, is in the world by Yang Baoluo, or burn in hell. "
The new party fast to burn the picture with them.
The godfather came and hugged him and said, "the saints bless you, my brother." "
The ceremony is not complicated, but after the informal members strictly formalize the periphery without ceremony, every step highlights the sacred sense of honor.
"The new United States joined the Mafia each year will have a total of 8000 people. Oil painting imitations consumed at the annual ceremony are worth more than $2 million 500 thousand. "A spokesperson for FBI told the media.
"Unless you are in prison, or gang violence during each new member of the mafia or the ceremony must be in strict accordance with the traditions handed down from the nineteenth Century program. "
The purchase of art imitation is not illegal, and all orders are shipped from China through normal transnational transactions.
But before the art replica of mass production made in China, only a few of the official members of Italy's descendants were promoted to small ceremonies, so that they could use such realistic art forgeries.
"American made famous paintings are often 3 and 4000 dollars, but the price of Chinese goods is less than 1/10, and a lot of orders can be more favorable. "
08 years of the financial tsunami had subsided, the United States Mafia Committee held a secret meeting, convened by the five New York family boss, Chicago crime syndicate and the crime family boss luo.
The spirit of honor and loyalty of the secret code of one of the issues is to revive the Mafia, one of the specific measures including recovery from Sicily in the ancient tradition of each peripheral member in positive initiation.
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"Now each new member of Mafia are more secure to rely on to organize each Godfather know go through fire and water, a loyal soldier is better than a loose legion. "
"Although the cost is greatly improved, each member can bring about a thousand times the value of $300. "
As the documentary "China Van Gogh" was released in Europe, more people knew the high imitation painting industrial line in Shenzhen, China.
A few weeks ago may Dafen painters learned to color, but in a very short period of time to Van Gogh's painting was difficult to distinguish between true and false.
"They work with the most elegant art and the Philistine's business. "
"They are all farmers working in the city, without any foundation of painting. "
"From coloring, using a pen to teach, after the copy, training to two months to start painting. These students are skilled, call on the family and the villagers together to form a painting, there are hundreds of thousands of people of the oil painting industry. "
70% of the world's oil painting from Chinese, China painting from 80% Dafen village.
The village is full of oil painting people, just pull a passer-by, can paint Monet, Rembrandt, they produce 5 million copies of master works each year.
The villagers did not know that every night when the lights were on the order, they didn't know who the buyers were in the smoky rooms, and the criminal organizations far away from the other side didn't care about them.
"A big high imitation can be sold for more than 1000 euros in Germany, France, Holland and other places, he will earn a few hundred yuan. "
Have superb skills of painters have illegal organizations can easily meet the high level of demand, to help restore a cultural tradition.
But there is no logical relationship in the middle. Thanks to globalization and international trade, no one knows if there are criminals who are paying for their own bread.
"Every penny you make is probably black money. "
"Every movie you see, every piece of clothes you buy, every one of the ads you click, may fall into the hands of the gangs. "
Skose Highfield, an agent for the FBI transnational organized crime investigation group (TOC), said.
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