(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 16 - "The prolonged lockdown period" provides criminal organizations with "new opportunities" to "carry out usurious activities and to detect or infiltrate companies in crisis for the purpose of money laundering". This is what UIF warns, the financial information unit at Bancad'Italia which recalls how the blockade "determines situations of financial difficulty" that favor the mafias which can count "on the rooting on the territory, the recruitment of affiliates to the weakest sections of the population and the wide availability of illicit capital ".
In addition, the UIF asks banks to monitor in advance the requests for financing from companies with public guarantees provided for by government measures. A share of the banks "will be able to stem the risk of abusively significant occurring both in the phase of access to credit" through "the alteration or falsification of the necessary documentation", "and in that of using the available resources".
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"The prolonged lockdown period" provides criminal organizations with "new opportunities" to "carry out usurious activities and to detect or infiltrate businesses in crisis for money laundering purposes". (HANDLE)