SALERNO – Requests for subsidies in the Covid era and interference from organized crime, the situation in Campania and in the Salerno area is “black”. Or rather “purple”, judging by the graph provided by the Bank of Italy as part of a research that concerned suspicious activities related to the incidence of criminal organizations in the period characterized by the coronavirus pandemic. The study reveals alarming data, in particular, relating to the communications of the Financial Intelligence Unit on the potential risks associated with the ongoing health emergency.
Companies “exposed” to infiltrations. Negative elements are provided by the mapping of companies: 150 thousand are those included in the report and considered “at risk”, which cannot be considered with certainty infiltrated, but whose proximity to suspicious environments is measured. “The local incidence tends to be higher in the southern regions, with peaks in Calabria, Campania and Sicily.” As for the so-called “suspicious operation”, it is precisely from this graph that a high exposure of the province of Salerno can be deduced, even comparable to the levels of Caserta. An increased vulnerability in the public sector in the “hot” phase of the pandemic for potential fraud related to forms of financial support for vulnerable groups and corruption. Monitor the operations carried out by public investment funds, tax evasion with proven mechanisms such as transfers of funds between individuals and legal entities or transfers of tax credits and tax receipts.
Francesco Ienco
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