Ahmad Baboo
20 August 2008
Port Louis — Of late, there has been much news about the Mafia and corruption. Not all of Bert Cunningham's disclosures are mere figments of a heated brain. ( ) Organized crime is involved where big money flows such as in horse-racing, drug-trafficking, booming businesses and so on. All those who have read the book, The Mafia Killed President Kennedy, by David E.
Scheim realize how powerful the Mafia is. On the blurb of the book, we read the following: "The Mafia, enraged by the Kennedys' anti crime crusade, had murdered the President and then ordered Oswald silenced to cover its trail. This suspicion was supported years later by aging Mafia don Johnny Roselli, who admitted that Ruby was 'one of our boys'.
Soon after, in 1976, Roselli's body was found floating in Miami's Biscayne Bay." Here too, in Mauritius, we have had some mysterious disappearances. In October 2005, one policeman on guard at the Container Park was found dead, supposedly from a suicide with a bullet in his head!
Mr. Cunningham has expressed the fear that he did not want to leave the country "frozen".
The Mafia has often links or ties with some politicians. Their corrupt collusion with public officials is a common practice. (...) Underworld figures are often involved with the Mafia.
( ) We have heard of corruption stalking some corridors of power. And there is nothing which so much outrages the public as to see corruption at high places. Actually, the people are facing a roaring inflation burning deep holes in their pockets.
( ) When people are facing hard times, a growing discontent wells up at seeing some people unduly fattening their purse, very often by ill-gotten means.
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