«Sicilian organized crime – reads the Dia report – continues to count drug trafficking, the management of online betting rounds, extortion declined in all its forms among the main sources of income and, with particular reference in the Palermo area, the handling and laundering of precious metals - the proceeds of robberies and thefts - through the complicity of commercial enterprises of the "buy gold" type.

The investigative results and the declarations of the collaborators document how Cosa Nostra encourages its acolytes to "collect" as much gold as possible in consideration of the high value of the metal...