Italy is tightening controls against trading in false CoV vaccination doses on the Internet. The new Carabinieri general Teo Luzi warned against websites that offer vaccination doses and drugs against the coronavirus. 250 websites of this type have been blocked, said Luzi in an interview with the Milan daily newspaper „Corriere della Sera“ (Sunday edition).
Luzi is less afraid that vaccine doses from Pfizer-Biontech and Moderna could be stolen, because the vaccine can only be stored at very low temperatures.
Rather, it should be avoided that there are irregularities in the vaccination of people who are not a priority in this phase of the vaccination campaign. In Italy, health workers, patients in retirement homes and people over 80 years of age are currently being vaccinated.
Warning of the mafia
The Carabinieri also tightened controls to prevent the Mafia from using the crisis phase to penetrate deeper into the legal economic system. Above all, usury flourishes in these times of crisis.
Because of the crisis, which is particularly hard on the tourism, hospitality and leisure industries, mafia groups could take the opportunity to penetrate these areas. In doing so, they could fall back on enormous liquidity funds, most of which come from the international drug trade. The mafia uses emergency situations among the population to hire drug dealers, says Luzi.
