Mafia corruption is having
"devastating" effects on the COVID-hit Italian economy,
national anti-corruption authority ANAC said Thursday.
ANAC said the mafia's "corruption trend is continually
increasing".
"The data are particularly concerning because criminal
organisations are increasingly resorting to corruption systems
to reach their goals," it said.
"They are taking advantage of the emergency situations like the
current one, with devastating effects on the economic system
and on healthy businesses, already hard hit by the crisis," said
ANAC President Francesco Merloni.
He added that ANAC had had to deal with "tacit resistance" from
businesses and bodies who looked on anti-corruption controls as
unnecessary hurdles.
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