Mafiosi, politicians and local authorities were sentenced. In addition, large quantities of cocaine and marijuana were seized.
Italy lived one of the most important trials in its history against 338 alleged members of the “Calabrian ndrangheta”one of the mafias most powerful and bloodthirsty drug traffickers in the world, emerged in the city of Calabria and present in forty countries. invoice close to 50 billion euros a yearaccording to experts.
Of the 338 prosecuted in the first instance in the court of Lamezia Terme, 207 were found guilty and sentenced, and 131, acquitted. After a month of deliberations, gangsters, politicians and local authorities were sentenced.
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Italian Mafia: who was convicted?
Among the condemned, 11 years in prisonincludes the former deputy of the ““berlusconiana” Forza Italia, Giancarlo Pittelliaccused of collaborating with this criminal organization, as well as the lieutenant of the carabineros Giorgio Naselli2 and a half years.
Although in total Among all those convicted, there is a total of about 2,100 years in prisonthe prosecution had requested almost 5,000 years from jail. The charges ranged from mafia association to drug trafficto laundering dirty money.
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What did the members of the mafia confess?
The defendants detailed the violent operation of the Ndrangheta, their control over the local population, extortion, the manipulation of tenders and elections, the acquisition of weapons, etc. They revealed secrets about weapons hidden in cemeteries or ambulances used for transport drugsand confessed how municipal water was diverted to irrigate marijuana plantations.
Since 2021, More than fifty repentant gangsters became collaborators of justiceabout the activities of this group.
Source: Ambito
