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☆ Horse’s head and pregnant cow used in ‘barbaric’ mafia threat in Sicily
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The discovery of a severed horse head, and a cow quartered with its bloodied dead calf on top, have rattled a Sicilian town, with authorities treating the incident as a mafia threat. “I can’t comprehend such barbarity,” she told local media outlets. It is a tactic that has been used by the notorious Sicilian Cosa Nostra crime syndicate for decades. Organized crime in Sicily has been a problem since the 19th century when the Cosa Nostra was first identified. In 2023, Matteo Messina Denaro, a Sicilan Cosa Nostra mafia boss who had been on the run for 30 years was captured while seeking cancer treatment in Palermo, underscoring the level of complicity that continues to protect and enable criminal enterprises.

Persons: Mafia Directorate’s, Maurizio de Lucia, “, ”, Angela De Lucia, Paolo Borsellino, Giovanni Falcone, Tony Gentile, Ndrangheta, Matteo Messina Denaro Organizations: CNN, Mafia, Nostra, Cosa Nostra, Reuters Locations: Altofonte, Palermo, Sicily, Sicilian, Cosa

☆ G7 summit: Mafia-style violence is on the rise in the same region of Italy where G7 leaders are meeting
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The town of Fasano and surrounding countryside, near the luxury resort of Borgo Egnazia, the venue of the G7 summit, on June 4, 2024. A view of Borgo Egnazia, in Puglia, where the G7 summit will be held from June 13 to 15, taken on May 26, 2014 in Savelletri, Brindisi, Italy. The security machine that will protect the world’s leaders of the world’s most advanced economies is well established, and headed by DIGOS. Workers at the attendee accreditation point for the G7 summit in Fasano, Italy, on Wednesday June 5, 2024. Donato Fasano/Getty ImagesSpecialized military police working with the anti-mafia law enforcement unit are keeping a close watch on known criminal groups.

Persons: Rome, Giorgia Meloni, Francesca Volpi, That’s, Vittorio Pisani, DIGOS, Luigi Carnevale, ”, Borgo, Donato Fasano, Victoria Beckham, Madonna, Ivanka Trump, Aldo Melpignano, Pope Francis, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al, Saud, Pisani, ” Pisani Organizations: Rome CNN —, Sacra Corona, Cosa Nostra, Camorra, DIGOS, Brindisi –, Bloomberg, CNN, Interior Ministry, Michelin, Workers, Getty, Saudi, US, ” Locations: Italian, Puglia, Foggia, Cosa, Sicily, Naples, Calabria, Italy, Balkans, Bari, Brindisi, Fasano, Borgo Egnazia, Savelletri, David, Turkish, United States, Germany, Britain, France, Canada, Japan, Schengen, Borgo Egnazi

☆ Hundreds Convicted as Italy’s Largest Mafia Trial in Decades Ends
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Eric Sylvers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The three presiding judges, in a court in Italy’s Calabria on Monday, stayed in a safe house while they deliberated their verdicts in the ‘Ndrangheta case over the past month. Photo: Valeria Ferraro/Associated PressItaly’s largest mafia trial in decades concluded Monday with the conviction of more than 200 people accused of being part of, or collaborating with, the country’s most powerful and richest crime syndicate, the ‘Ndrangheta. Former law-enforcement officials, politicians and businessmen were found guilty of offenses related to organized crime, including drug smuggling, money laundering and extortion, after an almost three-year trial.

Persons: Valeria Ferraro Organizations: Associated Press Locations: Italy’s Calabria

☆ More than 200 mobsters jailed in one of Italy’s biggest mafia trials
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Rome CNN —An Italian court has sentenced more than 200 crime gang members to a total of 2,200 years in prison, following the country’s largest mafia trial in three decades. It took the court one hour and 40 minutes to hand down its rulings, Italian news outlet Ansa reported. Among those tried were 42 women – a record for a mafia trial – of whom 39 were convicted. The trial took place in a specially-built bunker in Lamezia Temre, southern Italy, amid safety concerns. Valeria Ferraro/APThe mobsters were affiliated with Italy’s notorious ’Nrangheta crime group and were convicted of mafia association, extortion, bribery and five murders.

Persons: Rome, Rome CNN —, –, ” “, Giancarlo Pittelli, Giorgio Naselli, Michele Marinaro, Gianluca Callipo, Luigi Incarnato, Pietro Giamborino, Valeria Ferraro, Scott, Scott W, Sieben Organizations: Rome CNN, onetime Forza Italia, CNN, Italy’s, United, Italian DIA, Mafia Locations: Lamezia Terme, Temre, Italy, United States, Italian, Calabria

☆ More than 30 arrested in latest Italy raid against 'Ndrangheta mafia
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Police officers carry boxes into a police building in Mainz, Germany, May 3, 2023, after German police arrested dozens of people across the country on Wednesday in an investigation of the Italian 'Ndrangheta organised crime group, German public prosecutors and state police said. REUTERS/Timm... Read moreMILAN, June 27 (Reuters) - Dozens of people have been arrested in a new police raid against the 'Ndrangheta mafia that has revealed how its multiple illegal activities have spread as far as Austria and Germany, Italian authorities said on Tuesday. Suspects, including politicians from the 'Ndrangheta home region of Calabria, face charges including mafia association, murder, extortion, fraud, rigging of public contracts, bribery and vote buying, police said in a statement. Prosecutors from the German town of Stuttgart and the German federal police cooperated with the investigation, they added. The alleged 'Ndrangheta network ran illegal trades from the south to the north of Italy in real estate, catering, fruit and vegetable and livestock trading, security services and video-poker, Italian police said.

Persons: Timm, Read, Nicola Gratteri, Emilio Parodi, Stephanie van den Berg, Alvise Armellini, Christina Fincher, William Maclean Organizations: Police, REUTERS, Mafia, Prosecutors, Europol, Austrian, Cosa Nostra, Thomson Locations: Mainz, Germany, MILAN, Austria, Calabria, Stuttgart, Italy, Austrian, Europe, Italian, The Hague

☆ Police Raids Target Italian Mafia Across Europe
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Police secured evidence on Wednesday during a raid in Saarlouis, Germany. Photo: Beckerbredel/DPA/Associated PressROME—Police in Italy, Germany and Belgium arrested 200 people linked to the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate, in the most sweeping, cross-border operation to date against the West’s richest mob group. The early Wednesday raids were the result of an international investigation that spanned 10 countries and several years. The police operation deals a major blow to the ‘Ndrangheta, which emerged from Italy’s impoverished south to become a dominant player in the global cocaine trade.

☆ Factbox: The 'Ndrangheta: Italy's most powerful mafia group
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

May 3 (Reuters) - Italy's 'Ndrangheta has supplanted Sicily's Cosa Nostra as the country's most powerful mafia organisation, and has spread across Europe and the rest of the world. ORIGIN, CELEBRITY KIDNAPPING AND COCAINEThe 'Ndrangheta originates from Calabria, the impoverished southern region at the tip of Italy's boot. Its name is believed to come from the ancient Greek words "andros" and "agathos", meaning brave or valiant man. POWER AND WEALTHIn its latest six-monthly report, Italy's Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate (DIA) calls the 'Ndrangheta "the absolute dominant force in the criminal world" well beyond its home turf of Calabria. In 2008, Italian research group Eurispes valued the 'Ndrangheta's annual turnover at a staggering 44 billion euros ($48.54 billion), about 3% of Italy's gross domestic product at the time.

☆ European police arrest more than 100 mafia suspects in drug crackdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The swoop was part of an investigation spanning Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Romania, Brazil and Panama, according to European Union law enforcement agency Europol. The network was devoted primarily to international drug trafficking from South America to both Europe and Australia, Europol said in a statement. A total of 108 people were arrested in Italy and other EU countries on the orders of police in the southern city of Reggio Calabria, Italian police said. Related investigations led to the arrest of 24 people in Germany, they said, as well as a further 53 detentions in northern Italy. The interior minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said 18 of the arrests were made there.

☆ Dozens arrested in Germany in European probe of Italian organised crime
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters) - German police arrested dozens of people across the country on Wednesday in an investigation of the Italian 'Ndrangheta organised crime group, German public prosecutors and state police said. The crackdown was part of a coordinated probe by investigators in Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain as well as Europol and Eurojust, they said. Among those arrested were four people in Bavaria, 15 in North Rhine-Westphalia, and 10 in the southwestern German state of Rhineland Palatinate, and police seized potential evidence at dozens of locations including homes and offices. Two suspects who were under investigation in the western state of Saarland, were arrested in Italy. German prosecutors said they would hold a news conference later on Wednesday.

☆ World's longest bridge could transform Sicily. But not if the Mafia and earthquakes get in the way
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Since then, various plans, including a short-lived idea for a tunnel, have come and gone – like water under the bridge. If built, the bridge across the Straits of Messina would span two miles (3.2 kilometers) and would be the longest suspension bridge in the world. When Salvini became transport minister, he made it his priority, betting his legacy on the bridge. “The bridge over the Strait of Messina is a project that can break ground immediately. The recent arrest of Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro after 30 years on the lam in Sicily represented a victory.

☆ Italian drugs cartels conceal payments via Chinese shadow banks
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Emilio Parodi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

[1/3] Seized drugs are seen following an investigation on drugs cartels operating in Italy increasingly using shadow networks of unlicensed Chinese money brokers to launder their proceeds in this handout photo obtained by Reuters on April 4, 2023. Carabinieri/Handout via REUTERSMILAN, April 6 (Reuters) - Drugs cartels operating in Italy are increasingly using shadow networks of unlicensed Chinese money brokers to conceal cross-border payments, according to Italian judicial and law enforcement authorities. U.S. authorities have said Chinese “money brokers” represent one of the most worrisome new threats in their war on drugs, as a Reuters investigation in 2020 found. Chinese authorities have previously vowed to crackdown on underground banking. One of the first probes to come to light involving use of Chinese money brokers by Italian mobsters was linked to the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta group, one of the largest crime gangs in the world.

☆ Indonesia to repatriate alleged drug trafficker to Italy
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NUSA DUA, Bali, Indonesia, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities will repatriate alleged drug trafficker Antonio Strangio, an Italian and Australian dual national who was detained in Bali earlier this month, to Italy on Sunday, authorities said. "After coordinating with National Central Bureau in Rome, he must be sent to Italy immediately. He will be delivered from here to Italy, and there he will be called to account on his case until there is a ruling," Anggaito said. Strangio was arrested on Feb.3 in Indonesia's resort island of Bali which he was transiting on his way home to Australia. Reporting by Bernadette Christina and Sultan Anshori in Bali, Editing by Kirsten DonovanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Factbox: How top Mafia boss Messina Denaro escaped justice for 30 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Alvise Armellini | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

ROME, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Matteo Messina Denaro, a brutal Sicilian Mafia boss who was Italy's most wanted criminal before his capture on Monday, had been on the run for 30 years. Messina Denaro, 60, was the last runaway member of a generation of mobsters who masterminded a string of bombings and murders that terrorised Italy in the early 1990s. Nobody knows for sure, but there have long been suspicions that Messina Denaro had his back covered by politicians and other establishment connections. Crime writer Roberto Saviano has pointed out that a former junior justice minister, Antonio D'Ali, has been convicted for collusion with the Messina Denaro family. Messina Denaro was eventually caught outside a clinic in Palermo after police discovered he was sick with cancer.

Italy's most-wanted man, Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested Monday after three decades on the run. Messina Denaro, a convicted murderer who has eluded authorities 30 years, is thought to be the leader of the notorious Cosa Nostra organized crime group. A picture released by police early Monday showed Messina Denaro in a police car — visibly older than in his 1990s mugshots — alongside two officers. Matteo Messina Denaro after his arrest on Monday. In 2006, police arrested Cosa Nostra boss Bernardo Provenzano, who police named as the "Capo di Capi," or chief of chiefs, after a 43-year manhunt.

☆ Arrest of 'last godfather' deals new blow to ailing Sicilian mafia
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Angelo Amante | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Messina Denaro, 60, was Italy's most wanted mafia boss and had been on the run for three decades. Experts describe Cosa Nostra, its fame amplified by movies such as "The Godfather", as an ailing crime group facing several difficulties, including competition in the highly lucrative drugs market. "Messina Denaro was the last godfather, he represented all the secrets of Cosa Nostra. Sergi said it was not clear who would step in to replace Messina Denaro in what is now a more factionalised mafia. Any revelation from Messina Denaro on the group's activities - including 1993 bomb attacks in Florence, Rome and Milan which killed 10 people - could be a further major development.

☆ Italy police arrest woman mafia boss, 48 others in raid outside Milan
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MILAN, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Police arrested 49 suspected mobsters in a raid on the outskirts of Milan on Tuesday, including five women, one of whom is accused of leading a local unit of the fearsome 'Ndrangheta mafia. It's rare for women to have leadership roles in the male-dominated world of the mafia. The woman, accused of ruling a 'Ndrangheta unit in Rho, a town on the outskirts of Milan, was "even more ruthless than the men", Milan prosecutor Alessandra Cerretti said in a news conference, according to local media. In a separate operation, police arrested another 37 people linked to the Camorra mafia in a raid outside the city of Naples, following a three-year investigation into extortion and drug trafficking. Reporting by Agnieszka Flak, editing by Alvise Armellini and Jon BoyleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Italian mafia kingpin captured in Argentina - police
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Police escort Carmine Alfonso Maiorano after he was detained in Guernica, Argentina, in this undated handout image provided by Argentina's Federal Police October 31, 2022. Carmine Alfonso Maiorano, a 68-year-old leader of the Italian 'Ndrangheta mafia, was captured last Wednesday in the town of Guernica in the province of Buenos Aires, the statement said. The International Criminal Police Organization, commonly known as Interpol, considers 'Ndrangheta "one of the most extensive and powerful criminal organizations in the world." The 'Ndrangheta mafia established itself in Argentina several years ago, the police statement said, operating in tandem with Albanian counterparts in Europe. The detainee was placed at the disposal of Argentina's Federal Criminal and Correctional Court.

☆ 'Ndrangheta mafia kingpin returns to Italy to serve 30-year sentence
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-06 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Rocco Morabito, the second most-wanted fugitive in Italy and a bigwig in the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia, was flown to Rome on Wednesday after being extradited from Brazil ending some 28 years on the run. Morabito, who was arrested in Brazil in May 2021, will now serve a 30-year prison sentence for various drug offences. Fugitive Rocco Morabito in an undated photo released by Italian authorities. Italy’s number one fugitive is Matteo Messina Denaro, a boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia who has been on the run since 1993. Morabito, 56, had convictions for international drug trafficking from separate cases in the Italian cities of Milan, Palermo and Reggio Calabria.

☆ Zeci de persoane au fost arestate în urma unor raiduri anti-mafia în Italia
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-27 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Unităţi ale Direcţiei Investigative Antimafia din Italia au arestat zeci de persoane suspectate de trafic de droguri, în mai multe operaţiuni ce au vizat bande criminale în această ţară, informează digi24. Anchetatorii au arestat 51 de persoane în zona metropolitană a Romei şi în alte localităţi, a precizat agenţia de presă ANSA. Acestea sunt suspectate că traficau droguri din Tor Bella Monaca, periferie din sud-estul capitalei italiene.De asemenea, poliţia financiară a oraşului Pavia din regiunea nordică Lombardia a anunţat 15 arestări şi alte măsuri în mai multe oraşe.Operaţiunile s-au concentrat pe bandele criminale din Milano, implicate în trafic de cocaină provenită din Peru. Se presupune că acestea ar avea legături cu organizaţia mafiotă 'Ndrangheta.Totodată, potrivit ANSA, anchetatorii au întreprins raiduri în legătură cu traficul de droguri în Torino, regiunea Piemont, în Ancona, regiunea Marche şi în Cagliari, în Sardinia. Nouă persoane au fost arestate în urma acestor operaţiuni.

Persons: Tor Bella Organizations: Tor Locations: Italia, Romei, Tor Bella Monaca, italiene.De, Pavia, Lombardia, Milano, Peru, Torino, Piemont, Ancona, Marche şi, Cagliari, Sardinia

☆ Rețeaua ”PetrolMafias” din Italia a fost destructurată. Active de un miliard de euro, confiscate
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-08 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Poliția italiană a pus capăt unei fraude masive cu combustibili a clanurilor mafiote, arestând joi aproximativ 50 de suspecți, inclusiv un nume important din industria petrolului, potrivit AFP. Operațiunea „PetrolMafias” a făcut posibilă confiscarea a aproape un miliard de euro în active (proprietăți, afaceri, numerar) legate de spălarea banilor și evaziunea fiscală prin produse petroliere. Ancheta, începută în 2015, a condus la o vastă operațiune, joi, cu detașarea a peste o mie de ofițeri de poliție. Peste 173 de milioane de euro au fost spălate prin intermediul companiilor de tip shell care făceau facturi false, legate de produse petroliere. La Napoli și Roma, poliția a vizat clanul „Moccia”, descris ca fiind unul dintre cele mai „puternice și periculoase” grupuri din Camorra, în Italia, în special priceput la investirea banilor murdari în circuitul economiei legale.

Locations: Napoli, Roma, Camorra, Italia

☆ Un mafiot italian a fost arestat după ce a fost recunoscut pe YouTube. Ce l-a dat de gol
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-29 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Autorităţile italiene au repatriat din Santo Domingo un membru al mafiei Ndrangheta, asupra căruia fusese emis un mandat de arestare din 2014, a informat poliţia italiană citată de agenţia Agerpres. Bărbatul, în vârstă de 53 de ani, a fost deconspirat de agenţii de poliţie datorită videoclipurilor postate de acesta pe YouTube, unde chipul său era totdeauna ascuns, însă nu şi tatuajele sale, care l-au dat de gol. Biart a fost arestat la 24 martie, în oraşul Boca Chica, în sudul Republicii Dominicane. Mafiotul italian era dat în urmărire din 2014, când Parchetul italian a emis pe numele său un mandat de arestare pentru trafic de cocaină în Olanda, la comanda clanului Cacciola, mafia 'Ndrangheta. Prezentă pe toate continentele, 'Ndrangheta a detronat de pe prima poziţie mafia siciliană Cosa Nostra, devenind cea mai importantă organizaţie criminală din Italia.

Persons: Biart Organizations: Parchetul Locations: Santo Domingo, Germania, Argentina, Australia, Brazilia, Canada, Columbia, SUA, Franţa, Elveţia, Uruguay, Europa, Boca Chica, Republicii Dominicane, Mafiotul, Olanda, Calabria, Cosa Nostra, Italia

☆ Cel mai mare proces împotriva Mafiei din ultimele decenii începe azi în Italia, într-o sală de judecată fortificată
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +2 min

Cei 355 de acuzați, presupuși mafioți și oficiali corupți, au fost trimiși în judecată în urma unei ample anchete asupra grupului Ndrangheta. Clădirea a fost transformată într-o sală de judecată fortificată pentru a face loc sutelor de persoane care ar putea participa la proceduri. Niciun proces mafiot nu a avut loc în Italia la o asemenea amploare din anii 1980. Printre aceștia se numără Giancarlo Pittelli, un avocat și fost senator pentru partidul Forza Italia al fostului prim-ministru Silvio Berlusconi. Cei mai mulți inculpați au fost reținuți în raiduri înainte de zori în Italia, Germania, Elveția și Bulgaria în decembrie 2019.

Persons: Luigi Mancuso, Giancarlo, Silvio Berlusconi, Nicola Gratteri Organizations: Cosa, Cosa Nostra, Mediafax, Forza Locations: Italia, Cosa Nostra, Sicilia, Cosa, calabreană Vibo Valentia, Forza Italia, Germania, Elveția, Bulgaria, Europa, America de Sud, italian

☆ Mafia italiană în instanță: 355 de acuzați, 900 de martori, 400 de avocați
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-11 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

58 de martori ai acuzării au acceptat să spargă omerta, legea tăcerii, pentru a dezvălui secretele clanului Mancuso şi ale asociaţilor acestuia. În cursul unei recente audieri preliminare, a fost nevoie de nu mai puţin de trei ore pentru a citi numele acuzaţilor. Acest calabrez de 62 de ani a jucat fotbal când era copil cu mulţi dintre cei pe care mai apoi i-a trimis în spatele gratiilor. „Este şocant să vedem că o grupare criminală este într-atât de înrădăcinată într-o regiune, încât trebuie aduse în faţa justiţiei sute de persoane. Există o mare diversitate a faptelor de care sunt acuzaţi: asociere mafiotă, crimă şi tentativă de crimă, trafic de droguri, cămătărie, abuz de putere sau spălare de bani.

Persons: Luigi Mancuso, antimafia Nicola Gratteri, Giovanni Falcone, Paolo Borsellino, Federico Varese, Silvio Berlusconi Organizations: Universitatea Oxford Locations: Europa, Palermo, Cosa, Giancarlo, Forza Italia, Italia, Germania, Elveţia, Bulgaria

În cursul unei recente audieri preliminare, a fost nevoie de nu mai puţin de trei ore pentru a citi numele acuzaţilor. Acest calabrez de 62 de ani a jucat fotbal când era copil cu mulţi dintre cei pe care mai apoi i-a trimis în spatele gratiilor. „Este şocant să vedem că o grupare criminală este într-atât de înrădăcinată într-o regiune, încât trebuie aduse în faţa justiţiei sute de persoane. Majoritatea acuzaţilor au fost arestaţi în timpul unor raiduri ale poliţiei în decembrie 2019 în Italia, Germania, Elveţia şi Bulgaria. Există o mare diversitate a faptelor de care sunt acuzaţi: asociere mafiotă, crimă şi tentativă de crimă, trafic de droguri, cămătărie, abuz de putere sau spălare de bani.

☆ Poliția italiană a arestat un important lider al grupării mafiote 'Ndrangheta
▼ + stars: | 2020-08-22 | by ( Https | Www.Facebook.Com Radiochisinau | ) radiochisinau.md time to read: +1 min

Poliția italiană a anunțat vineri că l-a arestat pe Domenico Bellocco, unul dintre liderii unei familii proeminente din temuta grupare mafiotă 'Ndrangheta, relatează DPA, preluat de Agerpres. Guardia di Finanza a precizat că Bellocco se ascundea într-o fermă din Mongiana, la circa 50 de kilometri sud-vest de Catanzaro, în regiunea Calabria din sudul țării. Bellocco, un membru proeminent al familiei criminale cu același nume, era căutat pentru asociere mafiotă și trafic de droguri. 'Ndrangheta provine din regiunea sudică sărăcită Calabria și a depășit Cosa Nostra din Sicilia ca principala grupare mafiotă din lume. Această organizație criminală s-a extins mult în afara Calabriei și a intrat puternic în Europa, America de Nord și Australia și este considerată principala grupare care introduce ilegal cocaină în Europa.

Persons: Domenico Bellocco Organizations: Agerpres, Cosa Nostra Locations: Guardia, Finanza, Catanzaro, Calabria, Rosarno, sărăcită Calabria, Cosa, Sicilia, Europa, America de Nord, Australia

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