The six-monthly report (II semester 2021) of the
DIA
presented by the Minister of the Interior and the related analysis on organized crime phenomena of mafia type has been published on the website of the Senate of the Republic.
The analysis is based on investigative, judicial and preventive evidence and confirms that the inspiring model of mafia-type criminal organizations is increasingly less linked to manifestations of violence and is increasingly aimed at
economic and financial infiltration.
.
This appears to be a confirmation of what had already been foreseen in the latest reports and highlights the strategic nature of the aggression against mafia associations also from a financial point of view aimed at stemming the reuse of illicitly accumulated capital to avoid the pollution of markets and economic public order. .
A guideline of action that has made it possible to reduce the criminal capacity of the mafias, avoiding effects that could have been disastrous for the “
country system”.
In the introduction to the report and in the chapter dedicated to money laundering, the most recent developments in national and continental legislation relating to the execution of ablative measures abroad and to the prevention of money laundering carried out through electronic markets are respectively dealt with.
A look also at international agreements such as the
@ON - Antimafia Operational Network
project , of which the DIA is the project leader and to which 22 partner countries have already joined, aimed at enhancing the international fight against mafias not only at the operational level, but also through a more energetic work of raising the awareness of foreign counterparts aimed at giving new and strengthened awareness of the transnational phenomenon of organized crime and that of the mafia type.
Another important initiative covers the planning of
I ‑ CAN - International Cooperation Against 'Ndrangheta
of the Central Directorate of the Criminal Police aimed at increasing international police cooperation in the fight against organized crime of a mafia type and, in particular, contributing to disrupting the global ramifications of the criminal threat constituted by the 'Ndrangheta.
As for the more national aspect, the analyzes on criminal phenomena of the mafia type "
continue to present the risk that the associations of various matrix, without however renouncing to implement all the actions necessary to consolidate the control of the territory, may perfect that strategy of infiltrating the economic fabric in view of possible public funding connected to the PNRR.
The pollution of the healthy economy is a fundamental aspect for the survival of the factions as a binding condition for any criminal strategy of illicit accumulation of wealth that involves the availability of massive liquidity reserves whose origins must be hidden and whose consistency can be magnified. invading the field of legal entrepreneurship, especially the one most affected by the consequences of the current economic crisis,
to have suitable tools to intercept public funding.
The mafia organizations, however, no longer appear to be simply oriented to the "parasitic plunder" of the production network but they do business by exploiting collaborative relationships with colluding professionals whose work is aimed at maximizing the ability to reinvest illicit proceeds with economic transactions sometimes concluded even beyond border
. "
The Report also proposes a focus on Nigerian crime structured in the so-called
"secret cult"
whose typical features are the hierarchical organization, the paramilitary structure, the rites of affiliation, the codes of conduct and more generally a modus agendi that the Court of Cassation has repeatedly referred to the typical connotation of "mafia".
And it is significant that periodic cult meetings have been ascertained in some cities with links between similar associations operating in different areas of our country.
It is therefore necessary to continue in the fight against organized crime with particular attention to the aggression of the assets illegally accumulated by the mafias through the instruments of criminal seizures and prevention.
On this front, the extent of the preventive measures carried out in the six-month period under review testifies to the attention to the sector of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department which directs its activities to protect the economic fabric of the country from the interference of organized crime.
I HALF 2021
SEQUESTRA
TOTAL
165,213,399
CONFISCATIONS
TOTAL
108,595,501
Furthermore, the prevention activity is also carried out through:
MONITORING OF COMPANIES
TOTAL
527
ACCESS TO CONSTRUCTION SITES
TOTAL
113 (no. Of subsidiaries)
INTERDICTIVE ANTIMAFIA
TOTAL
373
REPORTS FOR SUSPECTED OPERATIONS
TOTAL
68,955
On 29 October 2021, the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department celebrated 30 years of activity in the Quirinale Palace, in the presence of the President of the Republic.
Itinerant anti-mafia "
an exhibition that tells the story and the successes of the DIA, an institution born also with the sacrifice of many servants of the state who have contributed to the construction of a modern tool to combat organized crime that is envied by
Law Enforcement
The photographic exhibition "Itinerant Anti-Mafia" toured the country and, through 34 panels with photos, images and newspaper reports, recalled 30 years of history and passion of the women and men of the DIA in the action of contrast to the mafias.