Mafia infiltration in the Cremona area passes through tourism, but also through waste treatment: this is what emerges from the research by PoliS Lombardia, carried out by Transcrime on the occasion of Legality Day and the 32nd anniversary of the Capaci massacre, and presented by the Anti-Mafia Commission. Some made the researchers suspicious unclear hotel acquisitionsregarding tourism, e incendiary acts which in recent years have occurred to the detriment of storage and disposal facilities regarding waste.
According to research, they are over 5000 Lombardy companies are at high risk, with an increase in disqualification measures reaching almost 30%. The companies definitively confiscated in Lombardy are 248, equal to 8.4% of the national total, the majority concentrated in the province of Milan (178 companies confiscated, of which 143 registered in the Milanese municipality), followed by the provinces of Monza and Brianza and Varese (19 and 12 companies confiscated).
Overall, in terms of the number of management procedures carried out by the National Agency for the administration and destination of seized and confiscated assets, our Region is second only to Sicily and Campania.
THE The sectors most attacked by crime are mainly the real estate sector (21.8%), construction (19%), wholesale and retail trade (15.7%) and catering (13.7%).
Large-scale organized distribution and shopping centers are considered, for example, an important gateway for mafia clans, both during the management phase of contracts and in the acquisition of commercial spaces. Bars, tobacconists and restaurants constitute, in turn, “an outpost of crime, providing opportunities for money laundering, surveillance of the territory and a logistical base for hiding weapons and drugs”.
The vulnerability of the Lombardy economy, according to the Transcrime report, is also confirmed by the money laundering statistics: our region records, in fact, the highest number of reports received (around 27 thousand in 2022, just under 20% of the national total).
As regards the infiltration sectors, the survey also shows an expansion and diversification compared to the past. There are traces of crime in renewable energy, transport, the entertainment, gaming and betting industry, the trade of medicines and architectural/building design. L’construction, in particular, is among the strongest interests of the mafia clans “constituting a meeting point between business, crime and local politics and encouraging a network of collusion between these three worlds”.
Crime has entered legal gambling businesses, discos and nightclubs, sports clubs, including amateur ones, and especially the world of football, hiding behind merchandising and the transfer of players. lb
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