As researchers specialize in organized crime Practice has become transnational and is becoming increasingly hybrid and able to adapt and evolve at the same speed as the development of artificial intelligence -based, cryptocurrency and metaverse technologies.
Because of this advance, which opened a new challenge to the world authorities, Brazil and Italy gathered last week in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the topic and outline strategies to combat organized crime, citing the Italian mafia.
A recent study called “The Challenge of Hybrid Organized Crime”, prepared by the director of the Cybercrime Research Center at Fondazione Grecia Magna, Antonio Nicaso, was one of the themes of the 12th edition of the International Week of Fondazione Magna Gretia. And he addresses how the crime has reinvented itself technologically.
“This is a problem with even more serious features in Italy and Brazil, which houses some of the largest international criminal organizations related to drug trafficking and financial fraud. Italy has greatly advanced in the use of technologies and systems to face this new reality, and there are many opportunities to exchange experiences with Brazilian authorities,” said Nicaso.
One of the cases cited by Nicaso’s study is an investigation carried out in 2018 by Italian police who intercepted conversations from a broker associated with the ‘Nndrangheta’ mobster faction. In dialogues, the investigated manifested weighing for the refusal of Brazilian drug traffickers to accept payments in Bitcoin.
Last week, the CNN showed how the Brazilian Federal Police discovered a Partnership between the CCP and the Italian mafia ‘ndrangueta with tons of cocaine to Europe.
Since last year, the governments of Brazil and Italy have been intensifying dialogues to put a cooperation agreement to combat international drug trafficking. The Ministry of Justice even signed an agreement in Italy.
One of the Italian authorities at the head of understandings between the two countries is Michele Carbone, head of the Antimalia Investigative Directorate (day), who participated in the debates.
Recently, the Chief of Interpol was one of the interviewees of the CNN Interviews and commented on reinvention of organized crime in the world . According to Valdecy Urquiza, 20 or 30 years ago, most offenses were local, with criminal organizations acting in specific regions. However, with the advent of internet -based services, this scenario has changed dramatically.
“For you to be successful in an investigation of an offense today of organized crime, you must have to rely on the collaboration of other countries in obtaining information,” said Urquiza.
“The data show that technology has allowed a quick and very sophisticated advance of criminal activities. The event is a great opportunity to advance the urgency of coordinated action between Brazil and Italy through technical solutions and qualification of professionals involved,” said Nicaso.
This content was originally published in Brazil and Italy to draw strategies to combat the mafia and the CCP on the website CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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