Justice Minister Andrea
Orlando told a mafia conference Friday that crimes linked to the
mafia such as corruption and money laundering must be
spotlighted by prosecutors.
"It's not just a question of following a saga of succession,"
he said, referring to expected struggles to succeed the late
boss of bosses Totò Riina.
Corleone-born 'The Beast' Riina, 87, responsible for the
murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo
Borsellino as well as many others, died a week ago aged 87.
"What we need is change of perspective," Orlando went on,
"you have to look at those tell-tale crimes that open the doors
to a mafia phenomenon and which often have a much greater
economic and social impact".
He said prosecutors had been attempting to do this, shifting
focus from all-out mafia crimes to other offences including
"corruption, false accounting, vote buying, environmental crimes
and crimes against the public administration, as well as
gangmastering".
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