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". 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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