Criminology · financial crime · AML relevance
I study how criminal, sanctioned, and high-risk actors preserve influence through firms, ownership chains, and legal vehicles that appear compliant while concealing who controls what.
Researcher at Transcrime, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan).
Recent work covers beneficial ownership opacity, sanction circumvention patterns, and criminal infiltration in lawful markets, with outputs spanning peer-reviewed research and applied policy analysis.
Research across criminology and applied AML analysis, combining structured data, ownership reconstruction, and case-based evidence.
Selected outputs that best represent both scholarly contribution and applied relevance for AML, sanctions, and integrity risk analysis.
Develops a replicable methodology to estimate control by sanctioned Russian entities over European firms, linking ownership structures to observable circumvention risk patterns.
Relevance: Provides an operational bridge between sanctions policy and company-level control analysis.
View publication ↗Uses proxy-based screening on economy-wide business data to identify potential criminal participation in Italian firms during the Covid-19 period.
Relevance: Shows how market-wide screening can support early detection of high-risk corporate exposure.
View publication ↗Maps recurrent sanction-circumvention schemes, including facilitators, corporate vehicles, jurisdictions, and practical indicators of risk.
Relevance: Translates empirical research into applied intelligence for sanctions and compliance practice.
View report ↗A focused agenda on how influence is concealed and exercised through legal-economic structures.
How criminal actors enter legitimate sectors, stabilise their position, and extract value through companies and market participation.
How ownership chains, nominee arrangements, and legal vehicles are used to mask control, reduce transparency, and weaken accountability.
How sanctioned and high-risk actors adapt corporate structures and transactions to preserve access, influence, and operational reach.
An analytical approach combining structured data work with case-led criminological interpretation.
Systematic tracing of direct and indirect ownership links across firms and jurisdictions to estimate control structures.
Assessment of declared and inferred beneficial ownership patterns to identify opacity, concentration, and screening priorities.
Use of indicators and relational mapping to surface anomalous structures, intermediaries, and clustered risk configurations.
Integration of judicial, regulatory, and policy material to interpret mechanisms behind quantitative patterns.
I am a criminology researcher working at the intersection of organised crime, financial crime, and corporate opacity, with a focus on hidden control in lawful markets.
I completed a PhD in Criminology at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) in 2025. My research combines scholarly inquiry with applied work relevant to AML, sanctions, and policy stakeholders.
Previous training includes an MSc (cum laude) in Public Policies, specialising in Security Policies (2021), and a BSc (cum laude) in Statistical Sciences at the University of Bologna (2019).
View doctoral thesis record ↗Publication record, institutional context, and professional channels.
I welcome enquiries on research collaborations, invited talks, workshops, expert contributions, and project-related work on corporate opacity, beneficial ownership, and sanctions risk.