32 billion stolen from the mafia, Eurispes: "a 'Iri 2' is needed to enhance immense assets"

The total value of the assets seized and confiscated from the mafia amounts to € 32 billion, equivalent to 1,8% of the gross domestic product before the pandemic-induced crisis. It highlights theEurispes which proposes to create a holding company to better manage this heritage, "organized in close collaboration with the National Agency for Property Confiscated and Seized from Organized Crime and with the supervision of the anti-mafia judicial system ". “It would be - highlights the Eurispes Permanent Observatory on Security - of an '' Iri 2 ′ with the highest share capital of Eni, Enel, Assicurazioni Generali, Intesa San Paolo, Poste Italiane and Leonardo put together. A holding divided into areas of expertise entrusted to managers with proven experience (such as, for example: real estate, agri-food production, agriculture, distribution, services and environment). sure - points out - the valorisation of this immense patrimony would not be immediately available to face immediately the emergency generated by the Coronavirus epidemic but it could represent one of the strategic resources to get out of the crisis and relaunch our economy ". “Such a strategic option - continues the Observatory - would also agree on the two orientations of thought that have faced each other for years on the issue of the sale of confiscated goods, polarizing between those who prefer to monetize the value of the seized and confiscated goods for purely accounting purposes and those who, on the other hand, target socially assets seized and confiscated also in order to provide the community with a signal of civic virtue ". The movable assets taken from the mafias amount to a value of 4 billion 336 thousand euros, of which 2 billion and 85 million euros are cash, liquidity. Asset management of these assets, however, reports theEurispes, "so far it has produced only 57 million 884 thousand euros".

 "Sure - write the president of the Observatory, Pasquale Precious, and vice presidents Giovanni Russo e Robert DeVita - the valorisation of this immense patrimony would not be immediately available to face immediately the emergency generated by the Coronavirus epidemic but it could represent one of the strategic resources to get out of the crisis and relaunch our economy. Such a strategic option would also agree on the two orientations of thought that have faced each other for years on the issue of the sale of confiscated assets, polarizing among those who prefer to monetize the value of assets seized and confiscated for purely accounting purposes and those who, on the other hand, allocate assets seized and confiscated for social purposes also in order to provide the community with a signal of civic virtue ".    “To allocate the property confiscated for social purposes - concludes the document - through a more modern methodological option and responsive to the country's economic needs, without distorting the purpose underlying the destination of the asset to society, it would reflect the approach that intends to enhance the potential of the asset recovery institution as a tool for moral redemption from a part and the perceived need for a concrete economic development linked to the reuse of confiscated assets. Finally, the resources generated by this entrepreneurial and managerial management of the huge available capital could be used, in the various possible forms, in the fight against the mafias themselves".

"The proposal of the president of Eurispes, Gian Maria Fara, takes in the sign of a clear inefficiency or at least of a lack of opportunity by our state". This was stated by the Quaestor of the Chamber and member of the Justice Commission Edmund CIRIELLI (FdI), which explains: "The idea of ​​creating a holding company to put the 32 billion taken from the mafias to good use, which could represent a sort of future 'Iri 2', interests me particularly since I have always been a member of the Social Right. For this - announces CIRIELLI - on such an important topic, I will also launch a debate within the Brothers of Italy with the aim of having a concrete proposal from my party to elaborate and subsequently present in parliament, which has always been sensitive to idea of ​​the infrastructural relaunch of Italy. However - CIRIELLI concludes - this moment is particularly indicated for the serious economic disaster caused by an insipient management of the epidemic by the majority of Pd-5 stars".

32 billion stolen from the mafia, Eurispes: "a 'Iri 2' is needed to enhance immense assets"