Italy’s anti-Mafia investigators issued a dramatic warning that mobsters will scheme to get some of hundreds of billions of euros in European Union recovery aid after the pandemic.
, the paramilitary general heading Italy’s anti-Mafia investigative agency DIA said mobsters are surely already mapping strategies to tap into some of that money, including through corruption or exploiting the country’s notoriously slow, inefficient bureaucracy.Carabinieri Gen. Giuseppe Governale in an interview with RAI state TV likened the expected windfall of aid after COVID-19 devastated much of Europe’s economy to mammoth reconstruction following World War II.
As a measure of how mobsters influence local authorities who award such lucrative contracts, DIA’s nearly 900-page, semi-annual report to Parliament on the state of the country’s crime syndicates noted that more than 50 municipal governments in Italy — mostly in the south, mobsters’ traditional power bases, but also as far north as the Alps — are currently being run by local prefects, after investigators determined that crime bosses had conditioned elected town officials.
“The international economy will need liquidity, and in this, the clans will go compete with the markets in need of substantial financial infusions,” DIA’s report said. The DIA said its warning went beyond Italy’s borders especially since, investigators say, the ’’ndrangheta in particular as well as the country’s other mafias are already rooted in much of Europe and beyond and the pandemic-triggered recession has “taken on global dimensions.”
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