Racketeering was the “trade mark” of “wrestler” gangs at the dawn of democratic changes at the end of the 80’s and the beginning of the 90’s of the twentieth century. Extortion racketeering in the developing private sector was connected with the period of the redistribution of territory control and criminal activities among organized crime groups.
Racketeering could be viewed as an initial form of the adaptation of crime groups to the
robust growth of the private sector when organized crime started to use the legitimate façade of security and subsequently insurance companies for criminal activities. As late as the end of the past decade racketeering gave way to more covert forms of influencing players in various sectors to secure competitive advantage in order to achieve better monopolistic positions and maximal gains.