white head, black head: the Chinese in Italy "All groups have black and white head," says Zhang, a penitent of the Chinese mafia magistrates in the 90s. With the first means the lawful and the second those criminals. In practice, each clan is involved in both clean and dirty business ("black things"), so for example, "Zhou Yi Ping as white head was the proprietor of a restaurant in Rome and, above all, played the role of chairman of the Chinese community of that city, so as to control both normal activities and even Mafia activity. " [From The Boss in Chinatown - The Chinese Mafia in Italy (Giampiero Rossi and Simone Spina - Melampus Editor)] 
In the port of Naples in competing with China Shipping and the thigh. The owners of the two Chinese contanier are piled on the docks and have changed the landscape of the main port in China Made in Europe.
70 percent of all Chinese goods directly in our country comes here: a flow of 250,000 containers a year at the foot of Vesuvius. It is no coincidence that in Campania were born in a few years 1500 enterprises with red lanterns. There
angolo della penisola dove non s’incontri un’insegna ricamata di ideogrammi. Basta fare un giro nel quartiere Esquilino di Roma, dove su 500 botteghe 403 sono cinesi, o nei dintorni di via Paolo Sarpi a Milano, dove ci sono 1900 ditte cinesi che fatturano 560 milioni di euro all’anno, o – ancora - nella provincia di Prato, dove su una popolazione di 185.000 abitanti ci sono 2500 imprese asiatiche, molte delle quali riforniscono di prodotti tessili le griffe internazionali.
In totale sono quasi 30mila le imprese che parlano mandarino nel nostro paese. Un dato sorprendente, se si considera che i cinesi d’Italia – secondo l’Istat – sono soltanto 130 mila.
Un dato che spiega bene l’innata propensione di questo popolo per il business. Nel solo 2007 sono state quasi 7mila (6.929) le nuove imprese fondate da cinesi e, accanto ai piccoli imprenditori, avanzano i colossi. Il primo produttore di motociclette cinese, la Qianjiang Group, tre anni fa ha comprato lo storico marchio delle due ruote Benelli; mentre più di recente la Sergio Tacchini è passata nelle mani della Hembley di Hong Kong.
Nel 2006 gli investimenti cinesi in Italia sono stati 61,47 milioni di dollari e nel settore immobiliare il ritmo di crescita è del 2-3% all’anno. I quattrini, comunque, prendono soprattutto la strada dell’Asia: nel 2006 sono partiti dal nostro paese 700,5 milioni di euro, solo la comunità romena ha spedito in patria a higher amount of remittances (772).
But in this extraordinary business network, as often happens, unfortunately, there is also the hand of the crime. Clan Mafia almond-eyed collect protection money to the detriment of fellow traders, banks and flourish where the illegal money laundering, primarily the result of counterfeiting and illegal immigration, is cleaned and ready for new investments. There is a six-figure sum to which explains the rise of this illegal business empire and to provide it is the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department, in the first half of 2007 the Chinese mafia has seized assets for 20 million euro: only what Our experienced a cut of the profits equally.
Inside the Cinamercato of Naples. Fourteen thousand square meters. A hive of microbox a man smiling and almond eyes. The altar electric Mao. The karaoke on the TV tuned to Hong Kong. Shirts, pants, shirts, hats, socks, creams seen, toothpaste, soap, fake viagra, milk cans. Two million of stuff. Seized. She had entered the port of Naples in Italy. Contraband. And then, handbags, belts, jackets. Of skin. Seized. They had arrived in Italy with container ships. Contraband. Value: twelve million euro. Taxes and levies shipped: 2.5 million euro. Who invented the Cinamercato? Song Zichai. It comes from Manchuria, northern China. E 'arrived in Italy for over ten years ago. With an international arrest warrant on his head. Beijing wants it back for a million dollar scam. If the return from whence it came could not get out of jail. Threatens even the death penalty. Thus, Song did not make it go. And what does it do? Before becoming chief editor of a Chinese newspaper printed in Rome. Environments where he attended that count: those diplomats. Then she makes up her mind to sow shopping centers all over Italy: Cinamercato. Song takes a shed, it takes up the banner and then rent the space inside the Chinese: they pay, he collects. In Naples, all right. And so it also buys a football club: the Palmese. Too bad you do not pay salaries to the players and the team fails. Organize a party. He says, at the stadium with Maradona and Gigi D'Alesio. Who do not know anything. And the party does not. We try again with another Cinamercato. In Muggia, near Milan. Makes up her mind to turn a new multiplex cinema in a bazaar. Cares that there are no licenses and opened with a lot of papier-mache dragons and fireworks. The Chinese take out money for rent and Song microbox bank. Then the whole town closes for abuse. The Chinese who have paid s'incazzano and try to give him a reality check. Song flies. Nobody knows where he is. Seek him in so many now. Even those of the prosecution of Monza. The charge: Song of the money would be recycled 'Ndrangheta. [The story continues ... The Boss in Chinatown on ] 
