Sicily, to date, is the first Italian region for the number of companies and real estate subject to ablative asset prevention measures, such as seizure and forfeiture. HE
In particular, according to data from the National Agency for the administration and destination of assets seized and confiscated from organized crime, to date there are 1,487 Sicilian companies confiscated, which is equivalent to 30% of the Italian total (4,915). Since it goes up to 39.5% when it comes to real estate (16,947 out of 42,875 in all of Italy). The Sicilian primacy is also confirmed in terms of legal proceedings under management (1,395 of the national total of 4,734, equivalent to 29.5%). Campania (674) and Lombardy (609) close the podium, with less than half of the minutes. These are the numbers that emerged today at the meeting “Prevent so as not to repress: measures to combat criminal infiltration and corruption”, organized by Sicindustria and Federmanager Western Sicily in Palermo.
“It is evident – said the president of Sicindustria Palermo Giuseppe Russell – that the challenge is to spread the culture of prevention and risk management by adopting a logic that is not based on paper compliance, but on the real support of the business: from the selection of reliable suppliers and partners from the economic, productive and reputational point of view, to the choice of collaborators with the adequate professionalism necessary to manage the complexity of daily business activity.It is no coincidence that Sicindustria, a few months ago in the hands of our late Gregory Bongiorno, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dems of the University of Palermo precisely to include undergraduate and postgraduate students specialized in compliance management and 231 organizational models for risk prevention and criminal charges in the business circuit” .
“In light of the numbers that characterize our region – added Ferdinando Pedone and Luca Ebreo, respectively president and member of the board of directors of Western Sicily Federmanager – it is absolutely urgent to adopt prevention tools that reduce the risk of criminal infiltration and corruption. with a comprehensive, systemic and interdisciplinary approach Bearing this in mind, it is necessary to train and make use of compliance managers in the company, capable of organizing the set of principles, rules and procedures that concern the management and governance of a company with an integral ecology approach, that is, continuous improvement of economic, innovative, environmental, ethical and social performance”.
