Organized crime is changing its face more and more: Cosa Nostra, Camorra, 'Ndrangheta constantly work to expand their relationship skills and increasingly in synergy with white-collar workers, "replacing the use of violence, increasingly residual, with lines of action of silent infiltration ".
This is what emerges from the analysis of how criminal organizations are evolving contained in the Report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate, relating to the second half of 2020 and just delivered to Parliament.
According to experts, all mafia organizations have accelerated the "process of transformation and 'submergence' already underway for some time, without however completely renouncing the indispensable roots in the territory and the intimidating pressure that guarantees them recognition in terms of 'power 'criminal ".
Evidence of this evolution is also provided by the data: compared to the second half of 2019, on the one hand, there was a decrease in "mafia-type murders" and "mafia associations" (which went from 125 to 121 and from 80 to 41 respectively) and on the other hand, an increase in crimes connected with the illicit management of entrepreneurship, infiltration into productive sectors and the hoarding of public funds.
The episodes of corruption and extortion went from 20 to 27, the undue inducement to give or promise benefits from 9 to 16, the trafficking of illicit influences from 28 to 32, the troubled freedom of enchantments from 28 to 32.
In this context, the attention of organizations has focused on the gambling and betting sectors, also thanks to the possibilities offered by technology: entrepreneurs attributable to clans, analysts explain, set up companies in tax havens and thus create a parallel circuit to the legal one that allows you to not only obtain large profits but also to launder huge amounts of money in a completely anonymous way.
Another sector of interest is that of the smuggling of energy products since it allows products to be placed on the market at a much lower price than that practiced by oil companies. In this way, real "synergies between mafias and white-collar workers" are created, with the latter having the task of taking care of the imports of products from Eastern Europe and managing their distribution through ad hoc companies through which the capital raised is recycled. provision by organizations.
Moreover, more and more often, the Dia investigators explain, the mafias resort to payments in cryptocurrencies: bitcoins and, more recently, the “Monero”, which do not allow tracking and escape banking monitoring ".
There is a multiform variety of foreign associations and links with criminal organizations abroad in the country, especially for drug trafficking, aiding and abetting illegal immigration and trafficking in human beings. According to Dia, this type of crime represents a "consolidated component in the national criminal landscape" and a real threat, in the face of which a global approach and a broader vision of the phenomenon appear necessary.
(Unioneonline / vl)