Italian prosecutor: “The ‘Ndrangheta does business around the world…it controls voting and political candidates”
Published:
July 23, 2015 at 8:56am
Maria Vittoria De Simone, a prosecutor at the 2012 trial in absentia of Michael Calleja of Melbourne and two Italian-Australians involved in trafficking cocaine into Australia for the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, speaking to an Australian newspaper:
“We urge the Australian authorities to remember that ‘Ndrangheta … represents an enormous risk for countries far from Italy. The ‘Ndrangheta … runs the international cocaine market. It doesn’t do its business in Calabria but around the world.
“It has infiltrated all economic sectors and it controls voting and political candidates at a national and international level. I urge the Australians not to underestimate this organisation. Otherwise it will be too late.”