A law-enforcement meeting in
Italy's Emilia-Romagna region on Wednesday found that the
Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia is the most infiltrated in this
wealthy northern region, where it has caused a rise in financial
wrongdoing and in the overall crime rate.
The meeting of prefects, police commissioners, Carabinieri
military police, and tax police commanders found that 55
companies involved in reconstruction in the wake of two major
earthquakes that killed 26 people and caused widespread damage
in May 2012 have been black-listed after investigators found
they had mafia links.
Of these, more than half had links with the 'Ndrangheta,
and the rest were connected to the Sicilian Mafia and the
Naples-based Camorra mafia.
The 'Ndrangheta is believed to be the most powerful of
Italy's mafias for its virtual stranglehold on the European
cocaine trade.
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