Italian interior minister Luciana Lamorgese warns against the penetration of organized crime into the legal economy in times of coronavirus emergencies. Therefore, strict control must be taken to ensure that the mafia is not using the current economic emergency to spread, the minister wrote to the security forces on Saturday.
In it, it called for particularly stringent controls in those areas where the mafia could distort the rules of loyal competition in the economic sector. It is therefore important to support families in difficulty so that cases of usury do not increase. “The economic difficulties resulting from the stoppage of production can offer favorable conditions for the expansion of illegal and criminal interests,” the letter said. This particularly affects the southern Italian regions with higher unemployment, where mafia clans often support families in difficulty in order to secure their services.
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