Organised crime, corruption and money laundering (A7-0175/2013 - Salvatore Iacolino)
Pino Arlacchi (S&D), in writing. − I abstained in voting on this report because, although there are some good ideas like the one on the need to establish the figure of the European Public Prosecutor, which I very much endorse, it is too vague and predictable. In particular, this text seems to ignore the existence of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which was approved in Palermo by 124 countries in December 2000 and has been fully operational since 2003. This was the first global treaty against organised crime and it has, as main points, the seizure of assets of illicit origin and the abolition of banking secrecy for criminal investigation. Any serious text on organised crime approved by this Parliament should take this convention as a basis and go beyond it, not just repeat its concepts in a different order.