Napoli. "The mafia they are like a company: they need advertising. On Tik Tok they show themselves as rich and powerful. When you see a singer on a pick-up truck with a submachine gun of fake gold with the narcos shirt and let's see how many likes there are below and someone invites him to give a lesson I'm worried and I can't stay quiet because silence is complicity
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When I authorize a film to be made from one of my works and for an hour there is only violence, what is the message?”. As is his custom, the prosecutor of Naples, Nicola Gratteri, does not mince his words when speaking at the presentation of the report 'The mafia in cyberspace', produced by the Magna Grecia foundation.
His message is evidently directed once again to the famous Neapolitan rapper Geolier and to those who invited him last month to speak with the students of the Federico II University of Naples but also to the fiction Gomorrah.
“Criminal organizations now consider the 'old' pizzo to be something outdated.” Prosecutor Gratteri also said. And then he said that he discovered in Naples that the “the camorra had created an online bank that laundered billions of dollars, with six thousand clients in Lombardy and Lazio and with offices in Lithuania and Latvia. The laundering amounted to more than three and a half billion euros, of which only two were seized”.
Italy is behind in the fight against online crime
"What surprised us is that in the seized banks we found technologies that our judicial police could not even dream of. Unfortunately, in the actions to fight the mafia, Italy has fallen behind countries like Germany, Holland and Belgium that now have to help us. The police force is completely lacking young engineers capable of giving the push that our system needs. We are losing too much time and a lot of ground."
Article published on 14 June 2024 - 17:40
