Sardinia in the red zone for crime. This is what emerges from a "Libera e Lavialibera" dossier, entitled "The perfect storm 2022. The crime variant", which elaborated data and analyzes of the police, the Ministry of the Interior and the studies and reports on money laundering of the Bank of Italy. 'Italy.

From the numbers it emerges that in the 2020/2021 pandemic two-year period the suspected reports of criminal infiltration reached a total of 252,711, with an increase of 24% compared to the pre-pandemic two-year period 2018/2019.

And there are seven regions in the "red zone", or where the alarm is more marked: in addition to the island, these are Sicily, Calabria, Puglia, Lazio, Basilicata and Trentino Alto Adige.

Greater increases were recorded in Lazio (+ 57%) and Trentino Alto Adige (50%) and Sardinia (+ 38%).

Furthermore, the dossier reads, the number of anti-mafia bans issued by the prefectures against companies controlled or conditioned by criminal organizations in the pandemic period is as many as 3,919.

From 1 January 2020 to 31 October 2021, an average of 178 disqualifications per month was traveled with a percentage increase of 33% compared to the two-year period 2018/2019. 15 regions in the red zone with record situations in Sardinia (+ 600%), Veneto (+ 471%), Trentino Alto Adige (+300) and Tuscany (+ 170%). In the two-year period of the pandemic there was also a boom in cybercrime (+ 39%) with as many as 14 regions in the red zone, the primacy of Basilicata (+ 83%) Sardinia (+ 63%) and Campania (+ 56% ).

A study by the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department, conducted in September and October 2020, found 270 companies that had collected funds planned for the pandemic crisis and that were affected by an anti-mafia ban: 40 million had already been disbursed. On another front, there are more than 9,000 restaurants that, due to the pandemic, could find themselves in conditions of financial vulnerability, which would leave them exposed to criminal infiltration and money laundering. And again, from the beginning of the pandemic to 6 December 2021, a figure of 27.76 billion has been put on the basis of an auction for the emergency, of which only 11.45 billion are the resources that are known to be actually awarded. and complete with all the relevant data, while there are lots of € 15.55 billion with an expired outcome, unknown or incomplete information. So - thinks Libera - it can be said that in the face of the enormous amount of money banned to try to stem the health crisis triggered by Covid, equal to 27 billion euros for more than half of the resources, 58%, there is no full information.

"In these two years of Covid - says Don Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera - the contagion of the" criminal variant "has reached its historical highest levels, taking advantage of the political, economic and social stalemate caused by the virus. pandemic and everything that forced us to live for two years, but starting again with the "criminal variant" still widespread in the social body risks transforming the restart into a relapse into the mafia and corruption viruses, a relapse from which it will be difficult to get up. And in this obscure scenario, the fight against mafias and corruption seems to have disappeared from the political agenda of the country ".

(Unioneonline / lf)

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