The investigative directorate says that the groups use violence less
Italian mafias are increasingly focused on corruption and infiltration practices in the economy and resort less and less to violence. This emerges from the report of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (Dia) on the activity of the first half of 2023.
The document states that the mafias have been adapting to social and economic changes for some time and that they have “replaced the use of violence, which is increasingly residual, even if not rejected, with strategies of silent infiltration and acts of corruption”.
“Today the mafias prefer to turn their attention to the sphere of business and enterprises, taking advantage of the large capital accumulated through illicit activities”, we read in the analysis.
However, investigators reiterate that the main source of income for organized crime continues to be drug trafficking. The report states that assets worth more than €29 billion were seized in the first half of 2023 on suspicion of links to mafia activity.
The DIA has highlighted the risk that the mafias will grab a slice of the resources of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), a vast program that aims to make the Italian economy greener and more modern through projects financed with the help of around 191 billion euros in European Union subsidies and low-interest loans.
The text also says that the Ministry of the Interior has implemented strategies to prevent the actions. According to investigations, in the first half of 2023, 11,890 requests for anti-mafia investigations were submitted to the PNRR.
Source: Terra
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