‘Ndrangheta, maxi blitz throughout Italy: over 100 arrests

Maxi police blitz against the ‘Ndrangheta throughout Italy. The mobile teams of Reggio Calabria, Milan, Florence and Livorno, with the coordination of the Central Operational Service of the Central Anti-Crime Directorate of the Police, carried out over 100 precautionary measures issued by the district anti-mafia prosecutors of Reggio Calabria, Milan and Florence, at the conclusion of articulated investigations that involved members of the ‘Ndrangheta operating in close agreement with each other, in different parts of the national territory. The investigative activities, in the context of which over a ton of cocaine imported from South America was seized, concerned people of Calabrian origin from the Piana di Gioia Tauro, presumed belonging to the Molè clan, also active in Lombardy and Tuscany, and with international ramifications. The disputed crimes are mafia association, external competition in mafia association, extortion, illegal possession and carrying of weapons, self-laundering, criminal association aimed at drug trafficking, production, trafficking and transfer of drugs, usury, fraudulent bankruptcy, tax fraud and corruption. The Milanese line of investigations was conducted by the Police and the Economic and Financial Police Unit of the Como Finance Police. More details will be provided in the press conferences to be held at 10.45 in the Milan and Florence prosecutors and in the Reggio Calabria Police Headquarters.