Organised crime globalisation and its links with international terrorism

AutorD. Pier Luigi Maria Dell'Osso
CargoFiscal General Antimafia de Italia
Páginas169-172

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1. Organised crime transnationality

The need for an actual development of cooperation among states – under a qualitative as much as under a quantitative point of view – is more and more urging due to the increasing “internationalisation” of organised crime – a concept which will never be exceedingly stressed.

The transnational nature of criminal organisations is not a mere theoretical category yet a precise and definite specification highlighted by the varied experiences gained.

The most profitable traffickings effected by organised crime have such scope and approach as to necessarily imply a transnational structure. This inevitably brings about that the various domestic criminal associations need to be reproduced in other countries where these traffickings transit and develop; basically they need to extend and branch out, to “clone themselves” on an international scale, that is they need to be closely connected one another and to establish close links with criminal organisations of the other countries involved in these traffickings. Thus, the various mafias mutually copy themselves, “genetic mutations” often occur as a consequence of this transplant from one place to the other, from one country to the other. Because of this, it is increasingly difficult to set this phenomenon against a background. Yet this is the way whereby, in the course of time, the Sicilian mafia turns into US or Canadian Mafia; the ‘ndrangheta in Calabria become connected with Australian organised crime, Turkish mafia branches out in Italy, Colombian mafia expands on the US and European territory, Japanese and Chinese mafias branch out throughout Asia as well as in other areas, Russian and Eastern Europe mafias are looming in the western scenario.

This has a single and undisputable meaning: it is the transnationality of organised crime. No country may feel reasonably safe and almost all countries, one day or another, end up being organised crime exporters and importers at the same time.

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With regard to organised crime, we all know that the ultimate and exclusive aim of the relevant crimes is to obtain the best possible profit, an unlawful enrichment. In this regard, experience teaches that – no matter the place, irrespective of the epoch and of the legal system – the best possible profit can be obtained when you manage in cleaning illicit assets of their criminal origin. That is to say, the unlawful enrichment reaches its climax when it becomes usable in any respect, when organised crime succeeds in turning illicit proceeds of crimes – extortion, kidnapping for ransom...

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