Research portfolio · criminal infiltration and market opacity
I study how criminal, sanctioned and high-risk actors enter, use and distort lawful economic systems through companies, ownership chains, professional intermediaries, procurement networks and financial channels that may conceal illicit influence, economic dependency, or harmful forms of control.
Researcher, Transcrime · Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan).
Scientific and applied outputs relevant to sanctions enforcement, economic risk and corporate transparency.
Methodological framework for estimating effective control of sanctioned entities over European firms and identifying circumvention signals.
Relevance: links sanctions enforcement to company-level control analysis.
Open article ↗Screening of the Italian economy (2020–2021) to identify patterns consistent with criminal participation in lawful business structures.
Relevance: supports early identification of high-risk economic exposure.
Open article ↗Mapping of recurring sanctions-circumvention schemes with focus on intermediaries, corporate structures and operational risk indicators.
Relevance: translates empirical evidence into operational sanctions risk intelligence.
Open report ↗Core topics for understanding how opaque risk emerges in formally lawful structures.
Trajectories of entry, consolidation and competitive distortion in lawful markets.
Formal arrangements that conceal influence, economic dependencies or indirect control chains.
Role of intermediaries, procurement and economic flows in sustaining high-risk dynamics.
Integration of criminological theory and empirical methods to make opaque risk more visible, measurable and intelligible.
Combined use of theoretical frameworks and datasets to interpret non-transparent control mechanisms.
Reconstruction of corporate relationships and ownership chains to estimate direct and indirect influence.
Development of operational indicators and case-by-case interpretation to support applied risk analysis.
Public traceability of publications, research identifiers and technical activity.