Italian police swoop on organized crime gang network
China DailyBy JULIAN SHEA in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-05-16 09:42 A general view ahead of a trial against 355 suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta mafia, accused of an array of charges, in a High Security Courthouse in Lamezia Terme, Italy, Jan 13, 2021. Law enforcement agencies in Italy have detained more than 100 suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta organized crime network in the southern city of Cosenza. The gang's drugs are often delivered from Latin America in containers carrying timber or food, and are then picked up for distribution by companies owned by crime gangs, police said. "Today's raids are one of the largest operations carried out so far in the fight against Italian organized crime," Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said at the time, calling the actions a "serious blow" to the organization. Around the time of the sentencing, Reuters quoted a biannual report by Italy's Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate that called the 'Ndrangheta "the absolute dominant force in the criminal world".
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