Finance police landed a big blow to
the 'Ndrangheta on Thursday, confiscating assets worth around 11
million euros in an operation linked to a probe by anti-mafia
investigators in Catanzaro.
Four people were detained in the operation and a total of 14
people are under investigation.
The impounded assets include some tourist complexes on the
"Costa degli Dei" (Coast of the Gods) in the Calabrian province
of Vibo Valentia.
One of these complexes was allegedly the venue for talks between
the 'Ndrangheta and the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra.
It is suspected that Cosa Nostra wanted the Calabrian-based
syndicate to join the bombing campaign it staged in the early
1990s that claimed the lives of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni
Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
The 'Ndrangheta is widely considered to have become Italy's most
powerful organized-crime syndicate thanks to its control over
much of the cocaine that arrives in Europe and its reach has
stretched outside its southern Italian base and gone beyond the
country's borders.
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