# Translation **Milad Rufqa - Researcher in Economics** The Italian investigation, which announced the dismantling of a money laundering network linked to deceased mafia leader Matteo Messina Denaro, revealed one of the most dangerous cases of organized financial infiltration in Europe in recent years. It became clear that the network succeeded in circulating approximately 200 million euros through a complex international financial system that extended from European tax havens to the Lebanese banking sector. The investigations do not only discuss financial transfers or secret accounts, but rather the transition of modern mafia to a more dangerous phase: infiltration into the banking structure itself through the purchase of significant stakes in financial institutions and using them as platforms for circulating illicit funds.