The report on the activities carried out and results achieved by the company has been published Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate in the first half of 2023presented by the Minister of the Interior, and relating to the analysis of mafia-type organized crime phenomena in the first half of 2023.
In the semester in question, as in the previous one, in the territory of Tuscany region the presence and operation of elements contiguous to Italian and foreign mafia criminal organizations is confirmed. With reference to the mafia groups of origin Italianthe presence and operations in the regional territory particularly concern those Calabrian and Campanian, compared to the cliques Sicilian less rooted, we read in the report.
Matrix crime ethnicin addition to the traffic of drugis also dedicated to extortion and predatory crimes, especially from Albanians, Romanians, Chinese, Maghrebians and North Africans in general, which they make use of where necessary, the “labourers” of individuals in need or who are irregular on the national territory. The illicit activities of the groups camorra found in recent periods are mainly concentrated in the sectors of extortion committed against subjects originating from Campania and Tuscany, in the management of trafficking and illicit disposal of waste, in that of traffic narcotics until the money laundering and re-use in real estate or business activities with particular reference to the sector tourism-hotel.
The operation of clan Of ‘ndrangheta continues to be highlighted in the territory of Tuscany, as confirmed by the investigative activities conducted in past periods, mainly in the context of extortion, drug trafficking, illicit waste disposal and tax fraud.
Matrix crime Chinese however, it continues to maintain a primary role in many economic activities, especially in the textile-clothing district which involves the provinces of Florence, Prato and Pistoia. The most widespread forms of illegality continue to be confirmed as the production and marketing of counterfeit goods or goods that do not comply with community legislation, with the related aspects of tax and social security evasion, the facilitation of illegal immigration and the exploitation of irregular labour, as well as crimes extortionate and predatory acts committed mainly against fellow countrymen.
