Alliance between Metro4, Transcrime-Università Cattolica and Crime&tech
Metro4, Transcrime-Università Cattolica and its spin-off Crime&tech have joined forces to improve their crime prevention tools to combat infiltration into public procurement
Milan, 23 October 2024 – Public procurement in Europe is increasingly susceptible to criminal infiltration, as demonstrated by numerous legal cases. To bolster the protection of public investments, Metro4 S.p.A., the concessionaire for Milan’s Blue Line subway, has partnered with Transcrime, the Research Centre on Innovation and Crime of the Università Cattolica, and its spin-off Crime&tech. This collaboration aims to enhance their respective crime risk monitoring technologies. Metro4 will share with Transcrime its know-how on the SILEG-M4 platform, successfully used to monitor the companies involved in the Blue Line construction sites. Through the integration with Crime&tech’s technologies, this partnership will broaden the range of potential users and improve anti-mafia protections nationwide, enhancing overall supply chain risk monitoring.
Since 2020, SILEG-M4 has facilitated comprehensive audits covering legality, anti-mafia compliance, site access, financial traceability, and adherence to the legality protocol signed by M4 with the Milan Prefecture. The Prefecture recognized the platform as a “valuable incremental anti-mafia security measure,” fostering a culture of transparency and security among companies working on the project. The platform’s modular design has also allowed its use by other public entities in national tenders.
By choosing Università Cattolica, M4 acknowledges the potential synergy between SILEG-M4 and Crime&tech’s technologies, which are already employed by public authorities, banks, and businesses across Europe for early detection of criminal risks through anomaly indicators and advanced data analytics. Transcrime will gain deeper insights into public procurement processes and their associated risks through the exchange of information. Additionally, Transcrime will support M4 in preparing a paper on the models developed and key challenges related to the execution of a major public tender, based on the experience acquired during the years of construction of Line 4 of the Milan subway.
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