MONEY LAUNDERING IN ITALY’S GREEN ENERGY SECTOR
May 1st, 2011
BY ALAN OSBORN and LEE ADENDORFF
AS a rapidly growing sector with heavy funding and lax controls, Italy's green energy industry has increasingly attracted infiltration from Mafia groups seeking to intercept investment and escape notice. With shady international dealings only recently coming under scrutiny, authorities are stepping up countermeasures with hopes of curbing a spreading trend. Alan Osborn, in London, and Lee Adendorff, in Lucca, Italy, report.
THE HIGH profile arrest in 2009 of a Sicilian businessman involved in the renewable energy sector and the ...
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