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The theft of identity
by Emanuela C. DEL RE
 Answers by: Sabina BULGARELLI, Gerardo COSTABILE, Filippo PATRONI GRIFFI, Fabio PICCIOLINI, Umberto RAPETTO
 The term “theft of identity” has recently entered into use to describe a particularly damaging form of criminal activity which consists in being able to pass for someone else. It is difficult to define what specific actions can be considered theft of identity....
Editorial
Cronology of Terrorism
INTERVIEW

President of the Guarantor Authority
of the Competition and Market (AGCM)
Antonio CATRICALA'

From the corrected competition
to the drive for recovery
 by Pio MARCONI
 The Sherman Act, the regulations which introduced the monitoring of the competition, in the United States, is from 1890. In Italy, the law that instituted an Authority called to combat the pathologies of the market was promulgated in 1990. A distance of a century, not due only to a cultural defect of the market and business, but also to the need, dragged along for decades, of not weakening the great Italian industry in the international competition. Today, the anti-trust system is a reality which has accompanied the Country in European integration...
INTERVIEW

Vice Director General of the LUISS
Giovanni LO STORTO

LUISS
The formation of the ‘excellent’
  articolo redazionale
 At only 37 years old, Gianni Lo Storto has been nominated vice Director General, of the LUISS, University of formation of the “excellent” of tomorrow and cultural incubator of many young people in search of a solid future. To understand who is really Gianni Lo Storto, today, twenty-nine years old, it is enough to listen to him when he speaks of “rediscovery of values and the rediscovery of the significance of the words courage and shame” and look him in the eyes while the enthusiasm kindles and the knowledge shines of who knows what he is saying by having proved it, day after day...
The Finance
between religion and ethics
  articolo redazionale
 In the research, imposed by the international financial crisis, of new strategies of investment based on criterion different from those habitual ones of maximization of profit, both the “ethic finance” and the finance according to the Islamic Law – la Shari’ah (or Islamic finance) have emerged. These two approaches apply criteria which are not economically rational in the selection of the investments, and originate from a desire of investors to transfer values and principles (religious, ideological and social) into the common financial practices. In the delineated context, the role of the State economic-financing Intelligence is that of verifying that the choices of investments effected from “socially responsible” funds are coherent with the trust that the saver places in the ethical institutions, in their implications for the security of the State...
Money laundering and self-money laundering
instruments and methods of counteraction
 Robero PENNISI
 It would be sufficient to eliminate nine simple words, “outside of the cases of participation in the crime”, of the Art. 648 bis and 648 ter. of the Criminal Code, to offer judges and investigators another formidable instrument to fight organized crime. In this way, the crime of self-money laundering could enter our criminal system, as an autonomous offence. But, it has also reached the moment where our system find place for “money laundering” tout court, a crime which, in Italy, does not exist. The how and why will be explained by Doctor Roberto Pennisi, of the National Anti-Mafia Direction. In the analyses that follow, the Judge will delineate the legal problems and methods in the activities of fighting the finance criminals and will suggest some possible solutions.
Europe – Russia – the United States
new triangle of the geopolitics
 Roberto MENOTTI
 The evolution of relations between Europe and Russia can be better understood in the context of a triangle that involves also, with full rights, the United States. One must start, in fact, from an observation of fact: of the 27 Member Countries of the EU, a good 21 are, at the same time, members of the NATO, which creates a direct security connection with Washington even if one wanted to take into consideration only the “Eurasiatic” side of the triangle. Furthermore, it is evident that Russia itself looks at the European questions in strict connection with the American policies, from the anti-missile system to the great energy infrastructure....
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