Italian police on Monday arrested
five suspected members of a Calabrian 'Ndrangheta mafia clan on
suspicion of extorting large sums of money from a hotelier who
died of COVID last September.
The businessman ran a hotel at San Giorgio Morgeto near Reggio
Calabria which was eventually impounded in April 2018 after
police found evidence it was owned by the Raso-Gullace-Albanese
clan of the Calabrian Mob.
The clan allegedly laundered drug profits through the
establishment, and the businessman had reported this to police.
The five, believed to be close to the Facchineri Clan of
Cittanova and San Giorgio Morgeto, were arrested on charges of
mafia association, extortion, fraudulent transfer of assets,
receiving stolen goods and possessing huge quantities of
narcotics for distribution purposes.
The Calabrian mafia controls most of the European cocaine trade.
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