The association Ruote Libere - L'Autotrasporto has denounced a relaxation of anti-mafia controls in the transport sector on road. "The news of the approval by the Transport Committee of the amendment presented by the government to the Infrastructure Decree-Law, which loosens the meshes of the anti-mafia controls - explained the president of Ruote Libere, Cinzia Franchini - deeply worrying but unfortunately not Amazes. With this change, the anti-mafia certification will be precluded only to those affected by interdictory communication prefectural and not by "simple" information anti-mafia prefectural as it happens today. Loosen controls anti-mafia by excluding only companies that have received a formal assessment further opens the door to organized crime in a sector that is already today heavily corrupted. With this change, the requirement of good repute, which is essential for companies to registration in the Road Transport Register and therefore to allow to carry out the activity, will cease only if a company is the recipient of an anti-mafia communication interdiction and no longer for an anti-mafia information interdiction. In words - Franchini specified - it might seem A small difference but in fact it is a change substantial".

"Road transport, due to its characteristics - continued the president of Ruote Libere - has always been object of the attention of the mafias that see in this world a a functional way to launder money, access huge amounts of money public resources and to manage the entire supply chain logistics of goods of all kinds. The progressive deprofessionalization of the category has aggravated the situation and Now, with the enormous problems already present, the anti-mafia certification also to companies clearly in the odor of mafia. The choice of the Transport Commission reflects the one that - a wanting to think well - is a culpable inattention to the fragile reality of Italian road transport. Impossible instead - Franchini underlined - to speak of inattention, for the sake of the trade associations that sit on the Register and which will be called upon to evaluate this amendment. The historical referents of the main associations, which for decades have been in the saddle of the bodies that govern, they know very well what this passage means and what further chasms may bring with them, but they will say nothing confirming, once again, their will to be always with the strongest and certainly not with those hauliers who heroically resist the pincers of illegality and of savage competition. Today," Franchini concluded, "the most strong is Minister Salvini and his obsession with the construction of the Bridge over the Strait, even at the cost of widening the meshes of controls, and the associations evidently compete to please him".