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The Corona crisis offered the mafia in Italy many opportunities for their criminal machinations in the economy and on the Internet last year. This is clear from a quarterly report published on Wednesday by the Italian security authorities.
Criminal organizations had a lot of money from illegal businesses that they invested in troubled companies, he said. The gangsters would have laundered money with him and thus infiltrated the economy. It was not uncommon for them to try to appropriate the assets of the company.
Orientation to health infrastructure
Furthermore, the clans used the plight caused by Corona to attack their victims over the Internet. Among other things, cybercriminals targeted the healthcare infrastructure and blackmailed hospitals that also treated corona patients.
The leverage was the so-called ransomware, with which the perpetrators threatened to paralyze the facilities’ systems.
1000 mobsters arrested
Expressed in numbers: While a total of 105 “critical infrastructures” were attacked from January to October 2019, the number soared to 476 attacks in the period last year.
Between March and September last year, investigators from the Guardia di Finanza’s financial police carried out a little more than 90 operations against the ‘Ndrangheta, Cosa Nosta, Camorra and the Mafia in Apulia (Sacra Corona Unita), including more of 1,000. Suspicious mobsters. (SDA / bra)
