The business-crime nexus is no aberration. Men who make their first millions in protection rackets and drugs invest in bonafide businesses. Says Vinayak Vakatkar, retired assistant commissioner of police, Bombay: "Enough businessmen, having realised the kind of easy money in the underworld, have taken to it." Industrialist J.K. Jain's diary, seized by the CBI early this year, named many politicians—including two ex-prime ministers and many Union ministers—as having tasted hawala money.