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

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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Deputy Director and Adjunct professor

Italy

Education

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Italy

PhD Criminology

University of Essex
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

MSc Accounting and Financial Economics

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Italy

MA International Relations

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Italy

BA Political Sciences - Communication Sciences

Publications

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

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

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

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Cine y casos de negocios: una mirada multidisciplinaria

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

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

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

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Trends in Organized Crime

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

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Criminology & Criminal Justice

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

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Journal of Economic Criminology

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

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European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

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The Varieties of Money Laundering and the Determinants of Offender Choices

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European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

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

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European Journal of Criminology

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

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Bahamas International AML Conference

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conference-paper

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

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Global Crime

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Gli affari delle mafie

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Liberastoria - Feltrinelli

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Il rischio di infiltrazione della criminalità organizzata nelle imprese lombarde

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

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

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Trends in Organized Crime

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

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

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Money Laundering Blacklists

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

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EUROPEAN LAW ENFORCEMENT RESEARCH BULLETIN, (SCE 5).

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

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

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European Journal of Criminology

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

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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

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Corruzione

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Dizionario di dottrina sociale della Chiesa

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

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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Transcrime

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

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European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

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

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Rassegna Economica

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

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Rivista di Studi e Ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata

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Assessing Money Laundering Risk across Regions. An Application in Italy

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European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

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

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Retail Crime

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Cash, Crime and Anti-Money Laundering

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The Palgrave Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law

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Opacity of business ownership and the risk of money laundering

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The Janus Faces of Cross Border Crimes in Europe

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Cinema papers: paraisos fiscales, lavado de dinero y mafia

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Gobierno Corporativo y Etica en los Negocios

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

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Organised crime in European businesses

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

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Organised crime in European businesses

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Measuring organised crime infiltration in legitimate businesses

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Organised crime in European businesses

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Measuring OC infiltration in legitimate businesses

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Organised Crime in European Businesses

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Organised Crime in European Businesses

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Routledge

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

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Organized Crime, Corruption and Crime Prevention

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

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Crime, Law and Social Change

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Corruption

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Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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

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Crime, Law and Social Change

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