Anti-mafia police have seized 50 million euros (£44 million) in assets and detained more than 160 people in Italy and Germany, accusing them of running a huge mob-controlled empire.
Anti-mafia police have seized 50 million euros (£44 million) in assets and detained more than 160 people in Italy and Germany, accusing them of running a huge mob-controlled empire.
The organisation involved everything from bread and wine sales to funeral services, migrant housing and waste recycling, investigators said.
Prosecutors in southern Italy said the ‘ndrangheta’s Farao-Marincola clan had its hand in just about every financial enterprise in the Calabrian town of Ciro, and it extended to cities throughout Italy and parts of Germany.
Specifically, prosecutors accused the bosses of driving out all the bakery competition in Ciro so residents and restaurants were forced to buy their bread from the one mob-controlled bakers.
Italian restaurants in Germany were apparently forced to import Italian wine and other goods from a clan-controlled Italian association.
