EU-funded project in Italy suspected of mafia links

Three NGOs filed an official complaint on the 22 January 2014 with the EU anti-fraud office, Olaf, demanding an investigation into an EU-sponsored motorway in Italy, where construction firms are suspected of fraud and infiltration by the mafia.

The project at stake is the Passante di Mestre motorway - a bypass around the northern Italian city of Mestre, just across the bay from Venice.

ESO: Background information: Increased international focus on Italian organised crime http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-increased-international-focus-on-italian-organised-crime/

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