On the closing day, the administrator of the US DEA mrs. Michele M. Leonhart co-president IDEC, the director of the central directorate for drug services, gen. div. of the finance police Andrea De Gennaro, the president of IDEC XXX, which took place in Russia, and finally the president of the senate Pietro Grasso.
The president of the senate highlighted that "the economic recession of recent years has further consolidated the criminal power: thanks to the ample availability of liquidity and the worsening of the credit crunch for businesses, drug trafficking organizations and other companies criminals have increased investments in legal economies all over the world, including by acquiring thousands of failing businesses, with the result of strengthening dependence and loyalty to the mafias of the poorest and most fragile territories, of legitimizing entry into the legal circuits and money laundering, to alter the mechanisms of competition and thus irreparably pollute the global production and financial system. "
Addressing the delegates who attended the XXXI edition of the International Drug Enforcement Conference: "I am well aware of the importance of the issues that this conference has dealt with - added the president - so much so that in my first and only day as a simple senator, the second day I was elected president of the senate and as such I can no longer enter into the merits of political issues, I presented a bill on economic crime, corruption and corporate crimes to facilitate financial investigations on illicit capital. I am in fact convinced that in interactions the greatest threat to our future is hidden between drug trafficking, crime, economy and politics. "
He concluded the conference by emphasizing his commitment to the fight against drug trafficking: "I want to assure you that even today as Senate President I continue to believe in the same values as always and that I consider the challenges you fight on the field as my most important responsibility and my greatest commitment. "
Finally, he made an appointment with the delegates at the XXXII IDEC conference which will take place next year in Colombia.
Monica Palermo
