Fun fact: the Sicilian mafia's annual revenue is comparable to that of Amazon. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/the-women-who-...
If you took all the public data, and tried to trace all the economic output, as it fell into the pockets of individuals, and tried to follow the spending patterns of individuals, tracing the return path acting as inputs to fund all the legal businesses out there, you probably can quickly notice a gap too large to chalk up to inefficient friction and people hiding money under their mattresses, and it probably looks more like a willful diverting of funds to parts unknown.
By induction and intuition you might hazard a guess about the story behind such phenomena.