In short, it goes where the GDP grows and where anti mafia legislation is reduced or less effective. Malta, with its decades long economic boom and historically lax approach to white collar crime, fits governale's description like a glove. Carlo Bonini agrees. He says that it's an open secret that hundreds of italian professionals use Malta to hide or to launder their money, often by opening companies and benefiting from low taxes. Quote if regular people could do it, why wouldn't the organized crime do it?