In every district of Palermo, the mafia has organized "a parallel structure" for the collection of sports bets, supported by illegal agencies masquerading as service centers. Betting money is collected on the street. It's the old totonero, updated for modern times.

Every mafia family, not only in Palermo, would have its unsuspected contact person for the business: in recent years, several entrepreneurs in the sector have been arrested in Sicily: the Palermitans Benedetto Bacchi and Salvatore Rubino ( there is also an investigation involving dozens of suspects, but in which the aggravating circumstance of mafia fell ), Enzo Romeo from Messina, Carlo Cattaneo and Calogero Jonn Luppino from Trapani.

And then there's neighborhood work. That of capobastone and picciotti who collect old-fashioned bets on the street.