National Anti-mafia Prosecutor
Federico Cafiero De Raho said Wednesday that the political world
was not paying enough attention to organized crime and graft.
"The political world postpones (addressing) these problems
and many others, but when there is corruption and the mafia, the
economy sinks," De Raho said.
"This is the worst aspect of the period that the country is
going through. There is not (enough) attention to these
emergencies".
De Raho was also critical of tax amnesties, saying they "help
those who operate illegally, above all the mafia organizations".
Critics of the government has said its 'fiscal peace' plan to
help people close disputes with the tax authorities amounts to
an amnesty.
De Raho's assertion was echoed by Raffaele Cantone, the head
of anti-corruption authority ANAC.
"Amnesties do not help confidence, especially when more or
less every year the amnesties are repeated, changing the name,
as if this were enough to hide them," he said.
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