HALF-YEAR REPORT
2st half of 2022

The Report on the activities carried out and the results achieved by the Direzione Investigativa Antimafia in the second half of 2022 has been published. The Report, which was submitted by the Minister of the Interior, analyzes the mafia-style organized crime phenomena referring to the second half of 2022.

The Report gives an overview of the criminal scenario with an emphasis on the development and transformations of mafia-style organized crime groups, making use of charts that outline the evolutionary trends of the main organized crime groups – as ascertained by the investigations concluded by the DIA and the law enforcement agencies – and gives an account of the information contained in the orders requesting the dissolution of local government authorities.

Moreover, the Report focuses its attention on the resilience of organized crime groups and their capacity to immediately seize the opportunities offered by the technological and economic-financial changes at the global level. They are capable of exploiting any opportunity for profit and remarkably increasing their speculative trading, also making use of the technological means linked to the metaverse, the encrypted communications platforms and the web in general (both the Internet and the dark web), as well as of other less known digital tools.

The Report highlights the core role played by international cooperation, encouraging to use of the important project of the @ON Anti-Mafia Operational Network, which was increased further by the data coming from the encrypted communications platforms seized by many foreign authorities, which were provided by EUROPOL. Based on these data it was possible to trace back the wide criminal dynamics developed by well-structured and widespread crime groups not only in the European Union.

The report has a specific FOCUS on encrypted communications platforms and another FOCUS on Albanian organized crime groups, which over the time have integrated into the domestic crime groups becoming – not only in Italy – one of the most complex and  multifaceted crime groups. They act as partners and provide criminal services to other groups thanks to the reputation of being highly reliable, above all in the drug trafficking field.

*** Senate of the Republic

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THE DIA CONFISCATES ASSETS WORTH 1 MILLION EUROS  FROM A CATANZARO-BASED BUSINESSMAN BELONGING TO THE ‘NDRANGHETA

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA CONFISCATES ASSEST FOR APPROX. 900, 000 EUR FROM AN APULIAN ENTREPRENEUR RESIDING IN GENOA

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA SEIZED A REAL ESTATE WORTH 450, 000 EUROS LINKED TO THE FABBROCINO CLAN

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FIGHT AGAINST MAFIA ASSETS: THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA IN CATANIA CONFISCATES ASSETS FOR A TOTAL VALUE OF 3,000,000.00 EUROS

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D.I.A. CONFISCATES ASSETS WORTH OVER 1,100,000 EUROS FROM A DRUG TRAFFICKER

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA SEIZED 2.5 MILLION EUROS FROM A TOP-LEVEL MEMBER OF THE SOCIETÀ FOGGIANA

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THE DIA SEIZES THREE COMPANIES FROM A WELL-KNOWN ACCOUNTANT CONVICTED FOR STATE FRAUD, ALREADY SUBJECT TO A PREVENTION MEASURE

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BARI: THE DIA AND THE CARABINIERI CONFISCATE ASSETS WORTH OVER 2,200,000 EUROS

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PREVENTIVE SEIZURE ORDER – SALERNO

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA CARRIED OUT AN ORDER OF SEIZURE AGAINST A NEAPOLITAN ENTREPRENEUR. THE OVERALL ESTIMATED VALUE OF THE ASSETS AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES SEIZED WAS ABOUT 55 MILLION EUROS

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA AND THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE IN TURIN CONFISCATED ASSETS WORTH ABOUT EUR 8 MILLION EUROS AGAINST TWO BROTHERS, CALABRIAN ENTREPRENEURS LIVING IN PIEDMONT

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA CONFISCATED ASSETS WORTH ABOUT 1.6 MILLION EUROS FROM AN ENTREPRENUER IN THE PROVINCE OF FOGGIA, OPERATING IN THE TRADE OF ADULTERATED OLIVE OIL

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INVESTIGATION OF THE EUROPEAN PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE – FRAUD AGAINST THE EUROPEAN UNION.THE DIA SEIZED ASSETS WORTH ABOUT EUR 450,000.

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA ARRESTED A FUGITIVE OF THE SACRA CORONA UNITA

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THE DIA SEIZES ARMS AND AMMUNITION

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FRAUD TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION – THE DIA CARRIES OUT 7 PRE-TRIAL MEASURES

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA SEIZED ASSETS WORTH ABOUT EUR 300,000 FROM AN ENTREPRENEUR OF APULIAN ORIGIN LIVING IN GENOA

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THE DIA CARRIES OUT 10 PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT TO A MAFIA ASSOCIATION, ILLEGAL GAMBLING AND BETTING

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA SEIZED ASSETS WORTH ABOUT EUR 1 MILLION FROM A PERSON SUSPECTED OF BEING A HIGH-RANKING MEMBER OF THE MALLARDO CLAN

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA CONFISCATES ASSETS WORTH ABOUT 400,000 EUROS FROM A WELL-KNOWN PREVIOUS OFFENDER IN CERIGNOLA (FG)

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SEARCHES AND ARRESTS BY THE DIA, THE STATE POLICE AND THE CARABINIERI AGAINST THE MAFIA MANDAMENTO IN TRAPANI

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COMBATING THE ‘NDRANGHETA, OPERATION OF THE DIA AND THE CARABINIERI IN LOMBARDY: 18 ARRESTS FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING, FRAUDS AGAINST COVID INCENTIVES AND TAX BONUSES

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA SEIZED ASSETS WORTH OVER 15 MILLION EUROS

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BARI: THE DIA SEIZED ASSETS WORTH OVER 18 MILLION EUROS

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OPERATION IN ROME CARRIED OUT BY THE DIA AND COORDINATED BY THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE IN ROME: DISMANTLING OF A CRIME GROUP RESPONSIBLE FOR RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY AND CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY

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REGGIO CALABRIA. THE GUARDIA DI FINANZA AND THE DIA CONFISCATED THE HUGE ASSETS OF A PERSON ACTING AS THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ARM OF THE ‘NDRANGHETA

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA CONFISCATES OVER 12 MILLION EUROS FROM AN ENTREPRENEUR IN THE TRAPANI AREA

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA SEIZES ASSETS IN THE FOGGIA AREA FROM AN ENTREPRENEUR OPERATING IN THE AGRICULTURAL, REAL ESTATE AND OLIVE OIL TRADE SECTORS

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JOINT OPERATION BETWEEN THE DIA AND THE DUTCH POLICE: LOGISTICS BASE OF THE ‘NDRANGHETA DISCOVERED IN NORTHERN EUROPE, DRUG TRAFFICKER ARRESTED

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THE DIREZIONE INVESTIGATIVA ANTIMAFIA CONFISCATED ASSETS WORTH OVER THREE MILLION EUROS AGAINST AN ALLEGED ‘NDRANGHETA MEMBER

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The Mafia is a human phenomenon and thus, like all human phenomena,
it has had a beginning and an evolution, and will also have an end”.
I only hope the death of the Mafia doesn’t come along with the final end of mankind.”

Giovanni Falcone.