Institutional - 20 Apr 2020

The impact of COVID-19 on criminal infiltration in legitimate businesses

Reflections by Michele Riccardi

The emergency generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequent economic crisis, have given rise to new opportunities and vulnerabilities that organized and economic crime could exploit. Michele Riccardi reflects on what the impact of COVID-19 could be on the risk of criminal infiltration in legitimate businesses and on the implications for the assessment of this risk.