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            "name": "Michele Riccardi",
            "biography": "Michele Riccardi is Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at Transcrime and Adjunct Professor of Financial and Business information analysis at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and of Risk Assessment Methods at the University of Palermo. His research focuses mainly on organised crime, money laundering, financial crime. In this domain, he has coordinated or contributed to numerous research projects, at national and international level. He is member of the ARO – Asset Recovery Office of the European Commission, of the Experts group of the EU Supranational money laundering risk assessment (SNRA) and of the National ML risk assessment (NRA). He is member of the UN working group in the measurement of illicit financial flows (SDG 16.4). He has been consulted in the FATF/GAFI Mutual evaluation of the Italian AML/CFT regime. He holds a PhD in Criminology, a MSc in Accounting and Financial Economics (with Distinction) at the University of Essex (UK) and a MA in International Relations (Cum Laude) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy).\r\nSee Michele Riccardi's publications on Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iWIyZm4AAAAJ&hl=en.",
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    "title": "Organised crime infiltration in the Covid-19 economy: emerging schemes and possible prevention strategies",
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        "en": "Paper Presentation"
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    "track": {
        "en": "Changing Crime Patters during the COVID-Pandemic"
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    "state": "confirmed",
    "abstract": "The Covid-19 pandemic, and the recovery measures introduced by countries across the world to face the current economic crisis, have provided opportunities to organised crime (OC) groups to infiltrate the legitimate economy, take control of legitimate businesses and profiting from the current emergency situation. In particular, the following patterns could be observed: (i) acquisition of firms in financial distress operating in sectors heavily affected by the crisis (e.g. hotels and restaurants); (ii) interest towards sectors pumped by the Covid-19 related lockdown (e.g. transport and logistics, cleaning services, trade of medical devices and pharmaceuticals); (iii) illicit lending and usury to entrepreneurs lacking liquidity; (iv) acquisition of recovery funds and public subsidies through fraud and accounting manipulations. By providing case studies and empirical data in selected countries, this paper will provide an insight of the changing patterns in the OC economic strategy as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, and discuss potential prevention and investigation strategies to curb and mitigate this risk.",
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    "duration": 20,
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        "room": {
            "en": "Featured Presentations"
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        "start": "2021-05-06T10:30:00+02:00",
        "end": "2021-05-06T10:50:00+02:00"
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