Later on he became president of IASOC (International Association for the Study of Organized Crime).[6] Finally,he was appointed honorary president of the Giovanni Falcone foundation,named after noted magistrate Giovanni Falcone,who was also a close friend of his.[7]
In 2010 he was rapporteur[12] for the European Parliament report A new strategy for Afghanistan[13] which flagged the risks related to very high levels of corruption in the management of international aid funds within the context of the war in Afghanistan to the increase of opium production.[14]
United Nations activities
As soon as he was appointed director of UNDCP he started a worldwide campaign against drugs,the so-called "A Drug Free World".[15]
The most important result achieved by Arlacchi during his activity at the UN was the promotion of a UN convention against all the forms of organized criminality,that has been held in Palermo in 2000. The document of this convention came into effect in 2003.[13]
Arlacchi's management style at the UN faced significant internal criticism and attracted media attention on multiple occasions due to public expressions of concern about his office's activities. Reports highlighted grave concerns regarding the integrity of certain dealings,suggesting that these issues might have occurred with Arlacchi's knowledge of the wrongdoings.[16]
As Head of the European Parliament's monitoring team, Pino Arlacchi certified that the elections in Azerbaijan on 9 October 2013 were "free, fair and transparent". Observers from the OSCE / ODIHR, led by Italian politician Tana de Zulueta, spoke of restrictions on freedom of speech during elections.[17]
On October 11, the representative of the European Union, Catherine Ashton and European Commissioner Stefan Fule, ignored the assessment of the European Parliament, including in its statement the results of the ODIHR.[18] It later emerged that a number of EU representatives traveled to Azerbaijan unofficially and on the dime of Azerbaijani organizations, which was regarded by European Voice as "stupidity or corruption", these trips were labeled "electoral tourism".[19]
Arlacchi dismissed the criticism as uncivilized and fictitious and replied that his assessment of the Azerbaijani presidential elections was not personal but reflected that of sixty-five other parliamentarians belonging to three different delegations (OSCE, EP, Council of Europe), and of over one thousand observers from another 46 delegations present on site and from all over the world. [20]
Bibliography
Arlacchi is the author of several books and publications on the Mafia and transnational organized crime, which have been translated into many languages. His publications include Mafia Business: The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism[21] and Mafia, Peasants and Great Estates: Society in Traditional Calabria.[22]
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