Camorra clans are also taking advantage of new technologies to do business. This important detail was discovered by the military economic-financial police units of the Guardia di Finanza of Naples, Trieste and Frosinone, in collaboration with the Central Investigation Service on Organized Crime, which carried out two attacks in Campania, Lazio and Emilia Romagna. preventive seizure decrees concerning movable and immovable assets for a total amount of over 150 million euros against 11 subjects under investigation, in various capacities, including in association form, for multiple tax crimes, false corporate communications, fraudulent transfer of values and self-laundering.

The investigations have revealed the concrete risk that the suspects would nullify the financial guarantee for the treasury also through operations on foreign accounts, the establishment of trusts, the registration on bitcoin platforms and the repeated fictitious registration of companies and movable assets and properties to nominees.

New technologies, favored by progress in cryptography - i.e. the application of methods that serve to make a message comprehensible/intelligible only to people authorized to read it - and by the evolution of the internet, are causing a radical change in the global economy, with particular reference to the financial sector, in terms of the methods of exchange of goods, services and any financial activity. Among the most significant applications of digital technology to the financial sector stands out the birth and spread of "cryptocurrencies" (or "virtual currencies"), the best known of which is bitcoin.