Pope Francis has condemned mafia groups exploiting the challenges created by the pandemic. He spoke out against the mafia on Italy\u2019s National Day of Remembrance for Innocent Victims of the Mafia.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS Italian police warn of an increase in mafia-related activity during the pandemic. <\/p>\n Last July, the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department called attention to organized criminal activity during the last lockdown. <\/p>\n GENERAL GIUSEPPE GOVERNALE The latest report from Italy\u2019s Anti-mafia Investigation Department shows that organized crime has been taking advantage of the pandemic to manipulate public contracts and extort<\/p>\n money from struggling businesses<\/p>\n During the same period, instances of crime classified as \u201clevel 1,\u201d such as kidnappings and robberies fell from 11,000 to 8,700 between 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n Mafia activity has instead seen an increase in level 2 crime, which concerns attempts to bribe public officials and money laundering. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Javier Romero<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 22, 2021. Pope Francis warned that mafia groups are benefiting from the health crisis at the cost of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PKR5eN0qRIs","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmafiaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmafiaint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Mafias are active in many parts of the world, and they are exploiting the pandemic. They are getting rich off of corruption. <\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Anti-mafia Investigation Department
\n\u201cThe effects of organized crime will be felt in Italy and other European countries where significant economic aid is being distributed. They will be a target for the mafia and they will be a target for another criminal groups seeking to exploit the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n