Naples. In recent weeks, the Prefecture of Naples has issued 9 more anti-mafia interdictions.
These latest recent measures are in addition to the 120 in the first half of 2024, a figure that the prefect of Napoli, Michele di Bari, had provided during the conference held last July 24th.
"This significant number demonstrates the state's utmost commitment to protecting the legal economy and demonstrates that initiatives to strengthen enforcement efforts are designed to increasingly combat the expansion of criminal organizations, especially in such a critical area as the Metropolitan City of Naples," a statement from the prefecture reads.
The prohibitory decrees, the statement continues, "have affected various types of businesses (including, in particular, the construction sector, funeral services, and waste management, to name a few areas at extremely high risk of infiltration) and have often intercepted business groups linked to criminal families who, although "specialized" in a few core activities, diversify their investments into smaller or silent companies in which capital derived from illicit proceeds has nevertheless been invested or in which various family branches are involved, in a complex web of shared interests and partnerships."
Thirty-four of the measures issued concern businesses based in Naples; the others affect the entire province. From January 2024 to date, a total of 129 prohibitory measures have been adopted;
115 are newly issued provisions while only 14 provisions are confirmations of previous impedimental provisions. This does not mean that we have limited ourselves to slavishly reproducing previously issued decrees;
Indeed, following requests for updates from the companies or in compliance with provisions of the Administrative Judicial Authority, the Prefecture has reactivated the initiatives under its jurisdiction and, following new investigative activities carried out by the Police Forces, as well as updated assessments and proposals arising from meetings of the Joint Anti-Mafia Group operating at the Prefecture, the Prefect has adopted the so-called confirmations.
They must therefore necessarily provide updated elements and determinations compared to the past and be supported by new elements so decisive as to make it possible to replicate the prognosis of contraindication for anti-mafia purposes", the note specifies.
Furthermore, the Police Offices and the Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza Commands have been specifically "sensitized so that, in the territories under their respective jurisdiction, they implement control and verification initiatives aimed at ascertaining whether the preventive measures are having their effects and whether the measures contained therein are being respected".
Finally, the Mayors of the area were also called to pay particular attention to adopting the consequent measures of competence, since the banned companies not only cannot contract with the Public Administration, but also have their licenses, authorizations and concessions previously issued to them revoked, precisely by the Local Authorities.
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