Italy's organized-crime syndicates
are increasingly focusing on corruption and infiltration of the
legal economy and less on violence, according to a report to
parliament by the National Anti-mafia Investigative Directorate
on its activities in the first six months of 2023.
The report said the mafias have been adapting to social and
economic changes for some time and have "replaced the use of
violence, which is increasingly residual, although never
repudiated, with strategies of silent infiltration and acts of
corruption.
"Today the mafias prefer to direct their attention to
business-entrepreneurial spheres, taking advantage of the huge
capital accumulated through illegal activities".
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