The first nine months of the
year have registered a sharp rise in administrative measures
issued by prefects to block economic activities allegedly
infiltrated by the mafia with an average of six such measures
per day, according to a report released Wednesday by two
anti-mafia organizations on the coronavirus crisis. In
addition, over the same period, 23 pre-investigative operations
connected to organized crime were carried out by security
forces, usury cases rose by an estimated 6.5% and some 100,000
firms had liquidity risk profiles, according to the report ''The
perfect storm, the hands of organized crime on the pandemic'',
drafted by Libera and Lavialibera on the months of the pandemic.
Cybercrimes were also on the rise over the same period, the
report said.
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