THE MOMBASA LA COSA NOSTRA Pablo Escobar once said, “ Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is”. The Joho cartel, Mombasa privileged political families, and Mombasa shrewd business tycoons form what is known as THE MOMBASA MAFIOSO or The Mombasa ‘ Cosa Nostra’ , which means ‘Our Thing’ or la stessa cosa "the same thing", meaning "he is the same thing as you – a mafioso as referred by the Italian Sicilian Mafia. At the top of this Mafioso structure is the Joho cartel. The Mombasa Cosa Nostra is well established and has adopted the so-called “strategia dell inabissamento” which means ‘sinking strategy’, aimed at reducing its visibility and thus the attention from law enforcement agencies by minimizing violence. Approximately 97% of the Mombasa population are not aware that it exists. This sinking strategy helped the Mombasa Mafia infiltration in the legitimate economy. The infiltration in the legitimate economy has to do with the very