Michele Riccardi

About

Michele Riccardi is Deputy Director of Transcrime and Adjunct Professor of organised crime and financial crime courses at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and of crime risk assessment methods at the University of Palermo. His research focuses mainly on organised crime, money laundering, financial crime. In this domain, he has authored numerous punlications and has acted as Principal Investigator or contributed to more than 25 research projects, at national and international level, including Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, International Security Fund, United Nations and IADB-funded projects. He is member of the Europol's SOCTA Academic Advisory Board and of the Experts group of the EU Supranational money laundering risk assessment (SNRA) and of the Italian National ML risk assessment (NRA). He is member of the United Nations' working group in the measurement of illicit financial flows (SDG 16.4). He has been consulted in the FATF/GAFI Mutual evaluation of the Italian AML/CFT regime (2025, 2015) and by World Bank on money laundering issues. He has been invited speaker or panelist in more than 150 academic and policy conferences. He holds a PhD in Criminology, a MSc in Accounting and Financial Economics (with Distinction) at the University of Essex (UK) and a MA in International Relations (Cum Laude) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy). Full publication list on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations? hl=en&user=iWIyZm4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Work

Università degli Studi di Palermo

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Adjunct professor

Italy

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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Deputy Director and Adjunct professor

Italy

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Education

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Italy
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PhD Criminology

University of Essex

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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MSc Accounting and Financial Economics

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Italy
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MA International Relations

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Italy
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BA Political Sciences - Communication Sciences

Publications

Rafforzare la conoscenza e la cooperazione pubblico-privata contro le nuove forme della contraffazione online

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

book

El lobo de Wall Street entre el sueño americano y la alucinación

Cine y casos de negocios: una mirada multidisciplinaria

book-chapter

High-level Corruption: an Analysis of Schemes, Costs and of Policy Recommendations

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

other

Ville lumière Ou Ville obscure? Assessing the secrecy of firms owning real estate properties in Paris

Trends in Organized Crime

journal-article

Bricks or cooks? Geographical and social determinants of the investment choices of mafia-type organized crime

Criminology & Criminal Justice

journal-article

A data-driven approach to measure money laundering risk and its relationship with corruption

Journal of Economic Criminology

journal-article

Introduction to Special Issue on “Understanding Money Laundering: Empirical and Theoretical Insights into Offenders, Typologies, and Determinants of Criminal Behaviour”

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

journal-article

The Varieties of Money Laundering and the Determinants of Offender Choices

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

journal-article

Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals

European Journal of Criminology

journal-article

Behind the curtain: an empirical analysis of corporate opacity across countries and sectors worldwide to assess money laundering risks

Bahamas International AML Conference

conference-paper

Financial crime risk assessment: machine learning insights into ownership structures in secrecy firms

Global Crime

journal-article

Gli affari delle mafie

Liberastoria - Feltrinelli

book-chapter

Il rischio di infiltrazione della criminalità organizzata nelle imprese lombarde

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

book

COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic

Trends in Organized Crime

journal-article

Inside the matrioska: the firms controlled by sanctioned ‘oligarchs’ across European regions and sectors

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

other

Money Laundering Blacklists

book

Organised Crime Infiltration of the COVID-19 Economy: Emerging Schemes and Possible Prevention Strategies

EUROPEAN LAW ENFORCEMENT RESEARCH BULLETIN, (SCE 5).

journal-article

Report on the technical and legal framework for sharing confidential data (COESO D.2.9)

journal-article

Who are our owners? Exploring the ownership links of businesses to identify illicit financial flows

European Journal of Criminology

journal-article

I cambi di proprietà delle aziende italiane durante l’emergenza Covid-19: trend e fattori di rischio

other

Next Generation AML: indagine tra le banche e gli altri soggetti obbligati in Italia sull'uso dei big data e dell'intelligenza artificiale in ambito antiriciclaggio

other

Corruzione

Dizionario di dottrina sociale della Chiesa

journal-article

Developing a tool to assess corruption risk factors in firms' ownership structures

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

other

Assessing the risk of money laundering: research challenges and implications for practitioners

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

journal-article

I soldi dei “bravi ragazzi”: controllo ed occultamento nelle decisioni di investimento delle mafie italiane

Rassegna Economica

journal-article

Oltre le mafie imprenditrici, oltre l’Italia: una mappatura dei fattori di rischio di infiltrazione della criminalità organizzata nelle imprese in Europa

Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata

journal-article

Assessing Money Laundering Risk across Regions. An Application in Italy

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

journal-article

Theft of Medicines from Hospitals as Organised Retail Crime: The Italian Case

Retail Crime

book-chapter

Cash, Crime and Anti-Money Laundering

The Palgrave Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law

book-chapter

Opacity of business ownership and the risk of money laundering

The Janus Faces of Cross Border Crimes in Europe

book-chapter

Cinema papers: paraisos fiscales, lavado de dinero y mafia

Gobierno Corporativo y Etica en los Negocios

book-chapter

Grand banditisme traditionnel and foreign groups. Organised crime infiltration in France

Organised crime in European businesses

book-chapter

Mafia infiltration in legitimate companies in Italy. From traditional sectors to emerging businesses

Organised crime in European businesses

book-chapter

Measuring organised crime infiltration in legitimate businesses

Organised crime in European businesses

book-chapter

Measuring OC infiltration in legitimate businesses

Organised Crime in European Businesses

book-chapter

Organised Crime in European Businesses

Routledge

book

When Criminals Invest in Businesses: Are We Looking in the Right Direction? An Exploratory Analysis of Companies Controlled by Mafias

Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention

book-chapter

Green energy and black economy: mafia investments in the wind power sector in Italy

Crime, Law and Social Change

journal-article

Corruption

Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

book-chapter

Green energy and black economy: mafia investments in the wind power sector in Italy

Crime, Law and Social Change

journal-article