ROME: Italys top anti-mafia prosecutor said Tuesday the country’s Ndrangheta mob was the most important criminal organization in the Western world, as preliminary hearings in the biggest ever trial against the group resumed.
The hearings at the bunker room of the Rebibbia prison, which are expected to last until the end of October, are preliminary procedures against 452 suspects from the Calabrian-based Ndrangheta.
The suspects face charges such as involvement with mafia-type organizations, international drug trafficking, usury, extortion and money laundering.
At an unrelated briefing with the foreign press Tuesday, Giuseppe Governale, Italy’s chief anti-mafia prosecutor, said the group was underestimated and particularly dangerous because of its ability to proliferate across nations and infiltrate them.
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