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.