(ANSA) Rome, February 2 - 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian version
of the Mafia, is infiltrating more local government organs in
Italy and not just in its Calabrian power base, the national
anti-mafia police department DIA said Monday.
Calabrian local councils face a 'cyclical emergency' of
infiltration by the crime gang that led to as many as 14
councils in the region being dissolved in 2014, the DIA said in
its regular six-monthly report.
But the report cautioned that the high number of councils
being detected could be because police are on their guard in
Calabria whereas in other regions they may be less so.
The ability of the Calabrian mafia to infiltrate councils in
other regions where Calabrians have emigrated for decades should
not be underestimated, the report says, citing the example of
the council at Sedriano in Milan province dissolved in October
2013 because of mafia infestation.
The DIA also warned that the Sicilian Cosa Nostra now is
being led by people "with a criminal curriculum without
background" instead of the "leadership that meant the historic
clan leaders".
This is due to "the growing enrolment of foreign manpower and
even of (Roma) gypsies", according to the DIA, which also
cautioned that the Sicilian crime organisation has undergone
"re-generative metamorphoses" toward "more flexible spheres of
influence" than in the past.
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