"One of the issues in the disputes was an alleged demand from the band that the company pay them a 24 per cent “administration fee” to be drawn from the company’s exploration budget"

Having had a prior and current girlfriend whose families hail from from southern Italy, I am well acquainted with these sorts of demands. When I was growing up in the Soo., I was told that all newly arrived Italian immigrant families were expected to purchase wildly overpriced cookingware from a certain "businessman". Greed obeys no geographical boundaries..