Italy Activates Anti-Mafia Agency to Investigate Chinese Infiltration
Italy’s government has activated the Italian Anti-Mafia Commission to investigate and clean up the Chinese Communist infiltration in Italian society and collusion with officials and gangsters to manipulate illegal activities organized by Chinese gangsters. The Commission also investigates China’s overseas police stations, Chinese truck cases, and underground banks.

The Mysterious Bank
According to a report by the Italian news magazine Le Formiche on March 16, the Florence court has arrested two Chinese people involved in illegal money launching. In addition, 13 people were listed as suspects. The case involved a secretive Chinese bank with branches in Rome, Florence, Prato and other places that transferred billions of euros to China. Italian investigators dubbed the bank a “Chinese underground bank.”

The “bank” provides a hidden remittance service and charges 2.5 per cent of the transfer amount as a commission. There are mainly two ways to transfer money – small amounts transfers from one or more credit cards to an account through apps such as WeChat or Alipay.

Larger amounts are prepaid to the “underground bank” designated by the customer through the account and bank card opened in China, and then the cash is withdrawn at the branches of the underground bank in Florence and Prato and then transferred to other Chinese to be shipped back to China in other ways.

Prato, near Florence, has a concentration of textile and accessories factories and is also a city inhabited by Chinese in Italy. The Italian police discovered that this city has become a stronghold for illegal infiltration by the Chinese underworld.

The “Chinese Mafia” in Italy
The crime of money laundering run by the “Chinese Mafia” in Italy has a long history. In December 2014, the AFP news agency quoted the Roman police as saying that some Chinese business owners and businessmen sent income from smuggling and selling counterfeit products and tax evasion to China through a British financial company named Sigue.

Sigue has seven branches in Rome, mainly engaged in the remittance business of local Chinese people. Most of the remittances use false names, some are fabricated, and there are names of the deceased, and there are even customers who do not know.

The official banks of the Chinese Communist Party are involved in these illegal operations. In June 2015, the Italian Prosecutor submitted an indictment against 297 people and the Bank of China to the court. Bank of China’s Italian branch was accused of assisting Italian Chinese in money laundering. The 297 people included 4 Bank of China’s Milan branch senior managers. The Florence police found that in less than four years, as of 2010, more than 4.5 billion euros from fraud, prostitution, labour exploitation and tax evasion were transferred to China through remittance services. Among them, 2.2 billion euros were remitted through the Milan branch of the Bank of China.

The Italian prosecutors’ indictment is based on an investigation started in 2008 called “Money River” that the money was sent to China through a remittance intermediary called Money2Money, from which the Bank of China received a middle fee of 758,000 euros. Prosecutors have sought help from the Chinese authorities but to no avail. The Italian authorities restarted the Anti-Mafia Committee this time, with an obvious goal of targeting the infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

China Set up Highest Number of Overseas Police Stations
According to a survey published by the Spanish human rights group Safeguard Defenders in December 2022, China had established 54 police stations worldwide by September 2021 and added 48 “overseas police and overseas Chinese service stations”.

“In name, it is to assist the Chinese overseas Chinese in administrative affairs. It uses the bilateral security agreement signed with the host country to set up a “police station” to monitor Chinese overseas Chinese and wait for opportunities to repatriate dissidents. Giuseppe Morabito, Director of the NATO Defence Academy Foundation (NDCF), told to L’Espresso, an Italian weekly news magazine, on 19 December 2022 that Italy has the most overseas police bases set up by the CCP, with 11.

At present, Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence, Sicily, and Prato, the city with the largest Chinese community in Italy, all have so-called “service stations” by the CCP’s overseas police. According to a report by RFI in December 2022, Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi stated that sanctions against the CCP’s illegal actions in Italy would not be ruled out. Italy has not authorized the CCP regime to care about police affairs.

27 March 2023

At the end of 2022 China has closed its illegal police stations in the Netherlands. The Chinese embassy has confirmed this to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ministry has 'as yet' found no indications that the agencies are involved in intimidation of Chinese people in the Netherlands, but is conducting further investigations.

This is written by Minister Wopke Hoekstra of Foreign Affairs in response to questions from the House of Representatives. At the end of October, RTL News revealed that two Chinese police forces had opened branches in the Netherlands.

Service points
China first denied its existence, then downplayed it. It would only concern 'service points' for Chinese people abroad.

The Chinese embassy insists to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that they have not interfered with the agencies. They would have been set up by volunteers to be able to renew a driver's license, for example, as long as travel to China is not possible due to covid.

This statement is striking, because one of the police stations was already established in 2018, long before Covid-19 appeared for the first time. RTL Nieuws also revealed that senior representatives of the Chinese embassy were at a meeting where the existence of the agencies was discussed.

according to the turncoat Filippo Bisconti, the chinese shops in Palermo still pay protection to Cosa Nostra

https://livesicilia.it/il-pentito-pizzo-ai-cinesi-i-boss-si-dividono-la-strada/

Murder, Drugs and Extortion in Tuscany’s Chinese Underworld

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/murder-drugs-and-extortion-in-tuscanys-chinese-underworld

I hate when they put the word Mafia with any other ethnic groups, just say Chinese Triads or Chinese organized crime lol.

+1

the traditional Triads from Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan are not present in Italy, "mafia" is a generic term for all form of organized crime or at least in Italy the ones charged with mafia-type association crime

Yes some times they now also talk about a mafia state, a state system where the government is tied with organized crime to the degree when government officials, the police, and/or military became a part of the criminal enterprise. According to US diplomats, the expression "mafia state" was coined by Alexander Litvinenko.

I can't help but find it a bit strange the CCP is being tied in to Triad activity. Traditionally the biggest Triads of Hong Kong (14K, Sun Yee On, Wo Shing Wo, Shui Fong) and Taiwan (Bamboo Union and Four Seas Gang) are heavy Kuomintang supporters. Both the CCP and the KMT uphold a one-China policy, but aside from that they're natural enemies.

A lot of Chinese organized crime in Europe these days is rooted in Fujian though, which is not a traditional Triad stronghold and has its own "snakehead" networks (that use gangs like Fuk Ching to enforce the criminal activities). It's possible that these networks have a bigger CCP influence, but I don't know for sure.

Ya hear the story of the Chinsese Godafther ??? He made them an offer they couldn't understand....

....Junior Soprano

The CCP is also pretty tough on crime gang leaders are on a regular basis executed like Huang Hongfa a powerful boss in southern China since the late 1980s. He and his underlings ran illegal casinos and controlled officials using bribes or one of China richest gangsters Liu Han, a gang boss reportedly linked to disgraced former elite politician Zhou Yongkang.

The Chinese Godfather - Profile of Chinese-Italian crime boss Zhang “Il Uomo Nero” Naizhong https://gangstersinc.org/profiles/b...file-of-chinese-italian-crime-boss-zhang

Italian drugs cartels conceal payments via Chinese shadow banks

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...nts-via-chinese-shadow-banks-2023-04-06/

speaking of foreign gangs in the 1970s in Rome, Milan and other cities there was the so called "clan of Marseilles" (Clan dei Marsigliesi), a bunch of french and corsicans with criminal records that formed a powerful group

Yes an underexposed part of the "French Connection".