FBIS3-42315
"jptot007__l94101"
JPRS-TOT-94-007-L
Document Type:JPRS
Document Title:Terrorism
FOUO
16 February 1994
WEST EUROPE
ITALY
World Atlas of Criminal Organizations Noted
BR0902124594 Rome LA REPUBBLICA in Italian 8 Feb 94 p 18
BR0902124594
Rome LA REPUBBLICA
Language: Italian
Article Type:BFN
[Unattributed report: "The Atlas of Crime And Extortion"]
[Text] Rome -- A world atlas of criminal organizations is
currently being prepared. It has been mapped out by the
Interior Ministry, in cooperation with the Gino Germani Research
Center and the Luiss independent university, and will be
completed in June, at the close of a cycle of conferences on the
subject of "Comparative Analysis of Criminal Systems in the
Contemporary World."
In the course of the first three conferences, Interior
Ministry and investigation department officials illustrated the
history, current numbers, interest sectors, and the capacity to
infiltrate institutions, of the main Mafia organizations
operating on the Italian territory.
Camorra -- Dimensions: 107 clans; 6,000 members;
approximately 1,000 flankers; 50,000-60,000 people directly
involved. Characteristics: horizontal, individualistic,
prevalently urban structure; indifferent to political
ideologies; maximum territorial control; not very prone to
strategic alliances. Main activities: extortion, drug dealing
and peddling (heroin and cocaine), illegal lotteries, cigarette
smuggling, business activities, public tenders, extortion, truck
robberies. New directions: drugs, real estate investments,
joint ventures abroad, interest in the leisure activities
market, tourism, lawful trading in tobacco products.
'Ndrangheta -- Dimensions: approximately 150 criminal
brotherhoods, comprising more than 5,500 members.
Characteristics: vertical, family-based structure; marked
capacity to infiltrate institutions; marked capacity to spread
also outside the Calabria region (Lombardy, Piedmont, Emilia
Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Aosta Valley). Main activities:
kidnapping, extortion, drug dealing, real estate investments;
money-lending and usury, controlling companies. New directions:
interest in the privatization of some national state-owned
companies, and companies in the former communist countries.
Antimafia measures: 12 local councils disbanded.
Sacra Corona Unita -- Dimensions: 47 associations, 1,775
members. Main geographical areas: Brindisi, Taranto, and
Lecce. Main activities: close cooperation with Cosa Nostra,
Camorra, and 'Ndrangheta in the drugs and arms sectors.
Antimafia measures: three local councils disbanded, 13 local
civil servants removed from office.
Cosa Nostra -- Dimensions: 186 Mafia organizations, 5,000
members, tens of thousands of flankers. Characteristics:
rigidly vertical and hierarchical structure; network throughout
the national territory and links with criminal organizations in
other countries; marked adaptation to work within institutions;
massive infiltration in politics, as well as in business, the
liberal professions, the civil service, and local
administrations. Main activities: international drug dealing,
construction and building materials sectors, services and
agricultural sectors, extortion. New directions: drugs,
operational agreements with gangs in other regions and foreign
criminal organizations; spreading the "stidde" [local Mafia
units] (in fighting against the traditional Mafia), stronger
presence in the business world and in the administrative fabric.
Antimafia measures: 17 local councils disbanded, and 17
councilors removed from office.