Famous Italian anti-mafia minister Scotti hosts DPM Abazović

During his working visit to the Vatican, Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović visited the 90-year-old former Minister Vincenzo Scotti in his family apartment in Rome.

Abazović and Scotti discussed the mechanisms for fighting crime used by Italian institutions during the 1980s and 1990s, referring especially to the period of the state's war with the Sicilian mafia and the murders of Italian judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, when Scotti was Minister of the Interior.

Abazović informed Scotti about the situation in Montenegro and the results achieved in the fight against crime in a year, emphasising that this was one of the priorities since the formation of the 42nd Government of Montenegro and that the state attacked all existing mafia in the previous year. Abazović also informed Scotti about the cooperation between Montenegrin and Italian institutions during the drafting of the Law on the Origin of Property, whose experience was used by Montenegrin institutions, noting that during his working visit to Rome he talked with Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese and President of the National Anti-Corruption Authority (Anac) Giuseppe Busia.

Vincenzo Scotti is best remembered as interior minister at the time of the fiercest clashes between Italian institutions and the mafia, who founded the Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate in 1991 and passed important anti-mafia laws in Italy.

In the end, Scotti presented his book "Pax Mafiosa or War? Twenty Years After the Palermo Massacres" to DPM Abazović and wrote: "To Dritan, the politician of the new Balkans".