Waste disposal is an issue
on which there is an "objective interrelationship" between
corruption and organised crime, the president of the national
anti-corruption authority (ANAC) Raffaele Cantone said Tuesday.
"(Waste) is one of those sectors where for objective
reasons there is a very strong presence of money, huge interests
and the presence of collusive companies, and so we must keep our
eyes peeled," Cantone explained.
"And then there are the problems related to ordinary waste
disposal, which often generate emergency situations," he added.
"We know that often other things are concealed behind
emergencies," Cantone said.
The Neapolitan former anti-mafia prosecutor also warned
against considering the anti-corruption agency as having
redemptive powers.
"I don't feel myself to be the country's saviour, nor do we
have the capacity to do it," Cantone said.
"If we are asked to play a role in regard to our areas of
competence, obviously that is our institutional duty," he added.
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