The Miami Herald offers a
piece on Italian organized crime and international drug trafficking.
MILAN - Italy's new national
anti-mafia prosecutor said Thursday that Italian organized crime gangs are
increasingly cooperating to control international drug trafficking.
Prosecutor Federico Cafiero
De Raho told an anti-mafia conference in Milan that the Italian mafias
"are not isolated. By now, they move together. The 'ndrangheta, Cosa
Nostra, Camorra, also the groups from Puglia" work together, coordinating,
for example, ports they use for heroin and cocaine shipments.
"They are able to change
the commander on a ship in Panama, and insert their own commander, so the ship
can handle a big transport of drugs," Cafiero De Raho said, illustrating
their reach.
While in southern Italy
organized crime "occupies the entire territory," in the north the
mafia is making inroads by entering the real economy by preying on business
people in difficulty who accept financial help to keep their business alive, until
eventually they are forced out.
Cafiero De Raho urged Italian
law enforcement and magistrates to cooperate on exchanging data and other
information, saying it was "the first step in the strategy" to defeat
organized crime.
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