National Prosecutor Melillo: "Prosecutor's independence must be defended". Carbone (Dia): "Evolved money laundering schemes in Dubai".

Also seated in the front row was Giuliano Turone, a great historical memory of the Italian magistracy and the creator, with Giovanni Falcone, of the 'Follow the money' investigative model to trace the mafia hierarchy that infests the country. The moment was the presentation of the institutional calendar 2025 of the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate, an inter-force body directed by General Michele Carbone, which was also attended by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Giovanni Melillo, the Deputy Director General of Public Security Raffaele Grassi, and the President of the Anti-Mafia Commission Chiara Colosimo, the director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Enzo Serata and the lawyer and essayist Umberto Ambrosoli, who through his literary works and public commitment continues to promote the values of legality of his father Giorgio Ambrosoli, the liquidating commissioner of the Bank of Italy who was killed in 1979 on Michele Sindona's orders.

The calendar is not just a chronological listing of months, but a synthesis of how the 'Follow the money' investigative model was born, has evolved and developed, made possible by the commitment of prosecutors and law enforcement officers, which today, in the Dia, finds the noblest expression of that 'magistrates-judicial police' pact that triggered the first real judicial anti-mafia, but also the civil one.

Turone is a prominent name. His investigations led to the arrest of Luciano Liggio, then head of Cosa Nostra. In 1979, he arrested Michele Sindona for the Ambrosoli murder. In 1983, with Gherardo Colombo, he investigated the P2, until he joined the first group of magistrates of the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor's Office in 1990. Turone reconstructed the birth of this financial investigation model. In June 1982, from the 4th to the 6th, a conference organised by the 'Commission for Judicial Reform and the Administration of Justice' was held at Castel Gandolfo. On this occasion, magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Giuliano Turone presented a report entitled 'Investigation Techniques in Mafia Matters'. The report illustrated an innovative approach in anti-mafia investigations, focusing on the tracing of financial flows generated by illegal activities. This method, summarised in the principle 'follow the money', was aimed at identifying and targeting the economic resources of mafia organisations, considered to be their vulnerable point. The Castel Gandolfo report represented a turning point in the fight against the Mafia, laying the foundations for investigative and legislative strategies that, in the years that followed, would prove fundamental in the fight against organised crime.

"All that we are trying to defend is a heritage that has not been given to us once and for all, but it must be convincingly and tenaciously defended because it is a cultural heritage that is united around fundamental ideas: the independence of the public prosecutor, the recognition of the need that complex phenomena require organisational models and working methods suited to complexity". This was said by the National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo. In this sense, Melillo explained that today 'we have joint investigation teams with Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia. For this reason, he said, 'no country can think of going it alone because the drug markets, money laundering, reveal that criminal organisations are integrating on a global scale'. Then he emphasised: 'Today, 45 years after his death, we still owe so much to Boris Giuliano, a vice-policeman who was able to build bridges for others not even imaginable. Much has changed but some things do not and should be remembered especially by those who make justice a ground for acrimonious and wearisome polemics'.

"Pizzerias, restaurants, hotels are important corporate vehicles because they are used as 'washing machines'", but "launderers need to build companies that operate in the market and bring in money. These are increasingly important money laundering schemes because they refer to Asian and Islamic finance," he added. Very often they stop in Dubai". Thus Dia director Michele Carbone in his speech. He also explained that "today we can say that these 'big money movements' (which are naturally to be understood as including bearer credit or savings instruments) have involved not only organised crime and mafia-type crime, but three other contexts: domestic terrorism (in the years of lead); corruption, especially in the public sector (which led to the Tangentopoli enquiries in the first half of the 1990s);  tax evasion. On this point, net of the various tax amnesties that have cyclically marked the history of our country and the various offshore lists (Falciani, Pessina, Panama Papers, Dubai), it is sufficient to recall that with the currency amnesties alone (the so-called tax shields and voluntary disclosure) of the years 2001-2002-2009 and 2014, capital amounting to approximately EUR 250 billion has emerged, placed by Italians in countries such as Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Republic of San Marino, the Bahamas, Singapore and Liechtenstein". .