The powerful Calabria-based
'Ndrangheta mafia is not merely operating on the fringes of
Italy's business capital of Milan but has a firm grip on the
largest financial markets, the mayor of a nearby town said
Monday.
Giambattista Maiorano, mayor of Buccinasco near Milan
called the city "Platì North" refering to the southern Calabrian
town where the wealthy 'Ndrangheta was founded.
In an interview with the Web TV program KlausCondicio,
Maiorano said "I am absolutely convinced that these people are
by now really within the economic and financial mechanisms at
the level of the stock market".
His comments follow a significant warning on Saturday from
Giovanni Canzio, president of the Court of Appeal in Milan, who
said in a report that the mafia's involvement in the North
cannot be "read in terms of mere 'infiltration', but rather of
'interaction-occupation'".
At the official opening of the judicial year, Canzio
referred to an "infinite" number of trials involving the
'Ndrangheta mafia in the Lombardy region of Italy's north.
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