The National Anti-Mafia and Anti-Terrorism Directorate (DNA), the Department of Public Security, the Financial Police (GDF) and the Financial Information Unit for Italy (UIF) signed, yesterday, a new protocol of agreement relating to information exchanges regarding reports of suspicious transactions, innovating and strengthening, also from a security point of view, cooperation between the four institutions.
The new agreements - signed by the National Prosecutor, Dr. Giovanni Melillo, by the Chief of Police - Director General of Public Security, Prefect Vittorio Pisani, by the General Commander of the GDF, General C.A. Andrea De Gennaro and the Director of the FIU, Dr. Enzo Serata – renew the previous ones signed in 2017.
The agreement aims to increase the overall effectiveness of the action to prevent and combat the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing.
The new Protocol - guaranteeing the widest and most timely sharing of data and information according to logics based on the adoption of the highest security and confidentiality safeguards, in compliance with investigative secrecy and the protection of the identity of the whistleblower - also corresponds to the need to simplify and rationalize information exchanges and fully exploit appropriate institutional synergies
