POLICE TRY TO PRISE OPEN ITALIAN MAFIA’S GRIP ON GAMBLING
July 1st, 2016
ITALIAN law enforcement agencies are cracking down on the use of the country’s gambling sector by transnational organised criminal groups (OCGs) to launder dirty money. The country’s most powerful mafias - Cosa Nostra (Sicily); ‘Ndrangheta (Calabria); Camorra (Campania); and Sacra Corona Unita’ (Apulia) all abuse gambling to hide criminal proceeds, according to reports from national police investigations.
A major police investigation, dubbed ‘The Imitation Game’, led by led by the Antimafia Prosecutor’s Office in Rome, and Italy’s financial ...
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