Prosecutor Lombardo: "'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra included in the world economic system"
From Iacchite-April 17, 2024

“Drugs may leave no traces, money certainly leaves them” is the phrase that Giovanni Falcone loved to repeat regarding investigations into drug trafficking, before he was killed on May 23, 1992 together with his wife Francesca Morvillo and the police agents. escort Antonio Montinaro, Rocco Dicillo and Vito Schifani . The Palermo magistrate had already understood then that the shortest way to get to the mafia was to follow the "trail" of the money, checks and financial documents, thus revealing connections and exchanges of interests between the mafia, politics and the economy.
With globalization and a financial universe that has gradually expanded, the mafia's horizon has also become increasingly market-oriented and projected into an increasingly international logic and, also thanks to the crisis, capable of infiltrating every sector.

Just a few years ago, in an information from the Reggio Calabria Flying Squad attached to the documents of the trial against the gangs of Sant'Eufemia d'Aspromonte resulting from the "Eyphemos" operation, it emerged as men of 'Ndrangheta, Camorra and Cosa Nostra wanted to launder 136 billion euros thanks to the help of a broker , Roberto Recordare , under investigation for mafia association and money laundering.
A person capable, in his own words (as captured in wiretaps), of circulating funds for 500 billion euros.
Money that could represent the tip of an iceberg. Because the question that arises spontaneously is simple: how many brokers are available to the mafias, used to launder dirty money?

We have discussed this point several times with the deputy prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Lombardo , who today, interviewed by Lavialibera , the magazine of Libera and Gruppo Abele , once again highlighted the strength of the 'Ndrangheta and the other mafias precisely from a financial perspective capable of also exploiting the pandemic emergency.

According to the magistrate, like the other mafias, the 'Ndrangheta is also in a waiting phase, avoiding sensational initiatives. Then, "when the contagion numbers are clearer and the emergency phase tends to wane, then we will try to understand which economic scenarios will emerge in Italy and abroad" .
“The mafia analysts – he further explained – on behalf of the large criminal organizations, will be called upon to identify the most attractive production sectors, into which to inject the enormous dirty capital that the overall mafia system has at its disposal. The leaders will plan, without a shadow of a doubt, the most massive financial doping operation generated by mafia capital that recent history can remember, capable of destabilizing large swathes of the legal economy".
According to the deputy prosecutor of Reggio, at this particular moment, the mafias will operate in order to strengthen their "social role" with initiatives that will go well beyond the granting of "user loans".

The reference is to the work of the high mafia which "will adopt strategies aimed at two main objectives. In the short term it will guarantee forms of survival for categories that have no other financial parachutes (I am thinking of the large sections of the underground, irregular or unsecured economy), obviously not wasting the opportunity to broaden the basis of social consensus among the beneficiaries of aid. The second objective will, however, be medium-long term: the large mafias will aim to consolidate, in a phase of very limited global liquidity, their role as indispensable components of the global economic and financial system".
“The biggest risk – he added, raising an alarm – is represented by the attempt by the large mafias to take advantage of the global crisis and the ever-creeping corrupt practices to carry out the never-abandoned project of creating a banking system parallel to the legal one, aimed at providing liquidity no longer to the entrepreneur, but to the broader financial system that channels resources towards large businesses”.

Finally he concluded: “When the emergency is over, the mafia criminal system will try to stabilize its role in the changed global economic scenario. That will be the moment in which the monitoring activity of all suspicious financial transactions will be strengthened, given that the 'Ndrangheta will no longer aim only to acquire the hidden management of companies, but will seek, more than in the past, to strengthen its presence in the management of essential services, extending from waste disposal and the cement cycle to the credit sector, the healthcare sector, medical supplies or, more generally, basic necessities" .

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