Prosecutor Ilda Boccassini
said after the arrest of 24 people in a probe into the
Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia's penetration of the Lombardy
political and business worlds that "I can say there is a system"
based on "omertà (the mafia code of silence) and on "advantages
for those who turn to the anti-State to get benefits".
Speaking at a press conference, she said "it is easy for the
clans to infiltrate the institutional fabric".
Bocassini also said the bust had captured the last major
participant at a 2010 mafia summit held in a centre dedicated to
slain anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo
Borsellino.
The major 'Ndrangheta bust is expected to be one of the last
feathers in the cap of Boccassini, who made her name with
Bribesville and mafia probes and cases involving ex-premier
Silvio Berlusconi.
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