‘Ndrangheta, how the algorithm to track it down really works

And that’s right Bert one of the components of the software being developed at the Interior Ministry, which among other things will allow you to search for terms, names, places or dates by inserting them in the right context and providing faster information that would otherwise remain trapped in a mass of data that is difficult to explore. “No one has ever specifically applied models of this kind in a investigative context, moreover as specific and peculiar as that of the ‘Ndrangheta – continues Bui -. TOTraining a network to understand a phenomenon which in itself is very complex means first of all understanding the phenomenon, then you have to make the network understand”.

At that point, intuition and investigative experience are enough to make a trail emerge from a mass of unformed data that can be followed to promptly activate an observation service or an interception. “Some events may not even be of a criminal nature – adds Bui – As the movement of people of interest moving on a birthday or on a specific date, that there allows you to know any important anniversaries and to infer what might happen in the future on the recurrence of those dates”.

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Mafia power map

Rizzi explains to Wired that the project of a software in support of I-Can “arises from two conditions. The first is that over time we have witnessed a colonization abroad of the ‘Ndrangheta. There are around 40 countries in the world where the ‘Ndrangheta has a structural presence with characters of criminal prominence”.

In fact, Italy investigates the gangs by exchanging information on the basis of bilateral agreements, such as the one with the Congo. Hence the idea of ​​transforming “data highly fragmented into explorable data, brought back from 3-400 basic categories to some macro-categories”, says Rizzi. And through these data trace and anticipate the expansion of the ‘Ndrangheta. Which seems unstoppable for now.

According to Dia’s latest report, “the ‘Ndrangheta is present in Girona and in the province of Madrid, Murcia and Catalonia”. And “exponents of the ‘ndrangheta, initially established in Liguria, moved to the Côte d’Azur, seen as a natural continuity along the coast of the Ligurian Sea, settling in the city as Nice, Menton, Cannes, where there is currently a second generation of Calabrian mafiosi”. It’s still United Kingdom“attracted by the ease of laundering money offered by the Anglo-Saxon economic and legal system”.

The Belgium it is useful for the role that the port of Antwerp can play in drug trafficking from South America. as well as theHollandwhere the ‘Ndrangheta “it is mainly dedicated to activities related to drug trafficking and money laundering”. It’s still Germany, Austria, Albania, Slovakia to stay in Europe. In Canada“in Toronto, the ‘Ndrangheta would operate through structures of an intermediate nature with coordination and supervision functions, such as the “commission” or “control room”. These structures, despite the indissoluble link with the province of Reggio Calabria, would have greater autonomy than in the past“, then Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil. And Australia, where it is believed there is a local structure that is a copy of the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.

It is no coincidence that I-Can sees all the countries most affected sitting at the table. “The I-Can project is aimed at making understand the danger of the mafia threatwhich Italy paid for at a very high cost – says Rizzi – because in the jurisdictions of many countries there is no specific provision against the mafia”.

Teamwork

For Bombers, “until recently international police cooperation was implemented only in the final stage of the investigation, in the execution of arrests and in the capture of fugitives. Today coordination takes place much earlier because it is necessary to carry out the investigations simultaneously in the various countries of the world”.