Collaborative anti-mafia: four construction, fruit, and waste businesses in Naples avoid bans.

The Prefect of Naples, Michele di Bari, recently adopted four "collaborative prevention" measures pursuant to Article 94-bis of the Anti-Mafia Code, a tool introduced in 2021 to address situations of mafia infiltration deemed "occasional" and non-structural.

The measures, alternatives to the more severe anti-mafia bans, were imposed on companies operating in highly exposed sectors: construction, fruit growing, cleaning services, urban waste collection, disinfection, disinfestation, and sanitization, located in the municipalities of Naples and Acerra.

What does “collaborative prevention” entail?

Article 94-bis of Legislative Decree 159/2011 allows the Prefect, when he determines that mafia infiltration attempts are attributable to "occasional facilitation," to order the company to comply with one or more compliance measures for a period of between six and twelve months.

Typical requirements include: the adoption of organizational models pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001, the reporting to the Joint Forces Group of payments exceeding €5.000, the use of dedicated current accounts, and the reporting of member loans or joint venture agreements.

At the end of the supervised process, if the Joint Forces Group certifies that the occasional facilitation has ceased and that no further infiltration attempts have occurred, the Prefect issues an anti-mafia release, allowing the operator to fully reintegrate into the legal market.

The Prefecture's strategy: decontaminate, not just expel

According to the prefect's notes, the four companies targeted by the measures were deemed "remediable": their operations showed less evidence of infiltration than the conditions that lead to the adoption of prohibitory measures.

During the monitoring year, the companies remain active but "careful": they are subject to continuous supervision and supported, where necessary, by experts appointed by the Prefect to support the implementation of the regulations.

The goal, as underlined in several technical documents and institutional press releases, is to "decontaminate" the economies of companies that are not completely compromised, guiding them through a process of self-cleaning and legal recovery, rather than permanently expelling them from the procurement system and relations with the public administration.

The Neapolitan context: 26 collaborative measures in 2025

In 2025 alone, the Prefecture of Naples issued 26 collaborative prevention measures, compared to 130 anti-mafia interdictions, confirming an increasingly complex and proportionate approach to the risk of infiltration.

In recent months alone, further collaborative measures have involved businesses in Somma Vesuviana, Castellammare di Stabia, and other areas of the Vesuvian area, demonstrating widespread action across key sectors of the local economy.