Thursday, January 6, 2011

City of Mafia

The Italian Mafia is stretching its tentacles upon the UK economy, especially in the financial sector, using the City of London as a strategic base for operations of money laundering. The alarm is launched by Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero, co-director of the Centre of Crime and Conflict Middlesex University, and Robert Fort, director of FLARE (Freedom, Legality and Rights in Europe), the European NGO that fights against organized crime.

Ruggiero and Forte will illustrate the growing penetration of organized crime in the UK economy at a seminar organized by the British section of the Left, Freedom and Ecology www. sinistraelibertà. co. uk with the aim of raising awareness of current developments of "Cosa Nostra", which has become a global business network, as well as to demystify the stereotypes of old-style "godfather", who have now very little to do with organized crime contemporary.

In the context of the financial global mafia organizations invest in hedge funds and perform complex financial transactions to clean up dirty money from drug trafficking, prostitution, racketeering, and trafficking in toxic waste. To cope with this situation, civil society organizations, the government and the police need to work together.

The event will be held in English, Tuesday, January 11 at 19.30 Kalilli Lecture Theatre of SOAS (School of Orental and African Studies) in London. The event on Facebook For info: contact Fred Ippoliti (federicoippoliti @ yahoo. Com)
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 4:15 PM
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