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Noun Concept
Categories: All articles needing additional references, Extortion, Organized crime, Articles with short description
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protection racket  krysha  Protection extortion  Protection fees  protection money
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A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals. Wikipedia
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A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals. Wikipedia
A scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law Wikipedia Disambiguation
Extortion scheme Wikidata
A criminal scheme in which victims are required to pay in order to avoid violence or destruction of property. Wiktionary
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extortion
racket
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brandschatting
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krysha, Protection extortion, Protection fees, protection money, Protection payment, Protection payments, protection racketeering, protection rackets

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