International Organised Crime
They were charged with several drug and firearm offenses after a three-year investigation by the British Columbia RCMP’s Federal Serious and Organized Criminal (FSOC) squad, that resulted in the destruction of the local arm of international organized crime network.
According to Abbott, fentanyl usage killed more Americans than terrorist attacks.
According to a recent report by Italy’s Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (DIA), the anti-drug unit, Gioia Tauro, a port in the southwest region of Calabria, which is controlled by the ‘Ndrangheta, was the entrance point of 97 percent of the nearly 14 tons of cocaine entering Italy via the Mediterranean sea last year.
Italian police detained twenty-five people after a raid on the Mallardo clan, a prominent Neapolitan Camorra clan in June. Eight were put under home arrest, while the remaining seventeen were taken into custody.
Although the AFP acknowledges that dismantling the criminal organization remains a difficult task, the intelligence obtained through the ANoM sting was helping to lift the cover of secrecy that has allowed members of the ‘Ndrangheta to operate in Australia with impunity.
