Mafias 'more focused on corruption, less on violence'

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 18 - Italy's organized-crime syndicates are increasingly focusing on corruption and infiltration of the legal economy and less on violence, according to a report to parliament by the National Anti-mafia Investigative Directorate on its activities in the first six months of 2023. The report said the mafias have been adapting to social and economic changes for some time and have "replaced the use of violence, which is increasingly residual, although never repudiated, with strategies of silent infiltration and acts of corruption.
    "Today the mafias prefer to direct their attention to business-entrepreneurial spheres, taking advantage of the huge capital accumulated through illegal activities". (ANSA).