Even in this case, the director of the cooperative is usually also a gang boss or the president of some society, meaning that rather than associations for cooperation, they are associations for the boss's benefit.
この場合においても、実際には○○組組長や○○会会長が協同組合理事長を兼任している場合が多く、協同の組合というより親分の私物の組合といった趣きが強い。