European police crackdown on Italian mafia

Dozens of suspected members of Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate have been arrested in a series of carefully coordinated police raids across Europe and in Latin America

ITALIAN ORGANISED CRIME GROUPS
‘Ndrangheta
Sicilian Mafia (Cosa Nostra)
Camorra
Sacra Corona Unita

ITALY
Rome
Naples
Campania
Palermo
Sicily
Puglia
‘Ndrangheta Italy’s most powerful crime group reportedly traffics in cocaine on global scale
Calabria
Mediterranean Sea
200km 125 miles

DEC 5 RAIDS (arrests)
Italy (41): Most arrests in Calabria, according to Eurojust – EU judicial cooperation body involved

Germany (21) Focus on states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria

Belgium (14) Concentrated in eastern Limburg province

Netherlands (5) Investigation dates back to 2014, when Dutch authorities referred probe into two Italian restaurants to Eurojust

Luxembourg (2)

Suriname (1)

Drugs and money seized by police 3,000kg of cocaine, 140kg of ecstasy pills, 2 million euros in cash

Raids came one day after Italian authorities said they had dismantled upper echelons of Sicilian Mafia in Palermo by arresting 46 people, including Settimo Mineo (left) – man presumed to have taken over as provincial kingpin


Sources: AP, BBC, Eurojust, Global Security, Reuters Picture: Associated Press 
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