While the scope and power of the Italian Mafia fades in the United States, it is still a pervasive force throughout many part of southern Italy. In fact, the problem of organized crime in Italy is seen by many as both a root cause and exacerbater of that nation's economic woes.
While there has been a cultivated effort on behalf of the Italian authorities to battle organized crime and corruption, the problem still persists—specifically by way of the Sicilly-based Mafia and Calbria-based 'Ndrangheta. However, a new website known as MafiaLeaks is looking to utilize Wikileaks-style transparency to take on the organized crime gangs.
The Italian-run MafiaLeaks describes its mission as one to collect information about organized crime syndicates. But unlike Wikileaks, MafiaLeaks' main goal is not to publish information that it collects, but rather to act as a medium by which to shepherd insider information to "trustworthy people" within the police, media, or other "anti-mafia" forces.
The company's manifesto states (via Google Translate):
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