Pol world distracted on mafia - De Raho

(ANSA) - Rome, October 18 - 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.