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===Involvement in organized crime===
[[File: Secretary Kerry Puts the Cap Back on His Pen After Signing an Accession Protocol to Continue Montenegro's Admission to NATO in Brussels (27045333901) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Montenegro's president [[Milo Đukanović]] is often described as having strong links to [[Montenegrin mafia]].<ref>"[https://www.occrp.org/personoftheyear/2015/ OCCRP announces 2015 Organized Crime and Corruption ‘Person of the Year’ Award]". [[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project]].</ref>]]
An illustrative example of official involvement in [[organized crime]] can be found from the 1920s and 1930s [[Shanghai]], where Huang Jinrong was a police chief in the [[French concession]], while simultaneously being a gang boss and co-operating with [[Du Yuesheng]], the [[Green Gang|local gang]] ringleader. The relationship kept the flow of profits from the gang's gambling dens, prostitution, and protection rackets undisturbed and safe .<ref>{{CiteCitation webneeded|titledate=Murder,January mayhem and money - Global Times|url=https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/767575.shtml|access-date=2021-01-22|website=www.globaltimes.cn}}</ref>
 
The United States accused [[Manuel Noriega]]'s government in [[Panama]] of being a "[[narcokleptocracy]]", a corrupt government profiting on [[illegal drug trade]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}} Later the U.S. invaded Panama and captured Noriega.
 
==Conditions favorable for corruption==