With &quot;protecting&quot; you mean for example protecting the money laundering business in Mexico?<p>Your perspective is too generalized, thus ultimately false. The case depends on the size of the bank.<p>In the case of a famous British bank, the prosecution literally stated that they could <i>not</i> prosecute the bank because it would have been too much of a big impact on the economy.<p>They got fined with the equivalent of a few weeks of profit, and who knows how much they ever profited from such illegal activities.<p>Doesn&#x27;t sound a protection racket to me.