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Ndrangheta, Gratteri: "More bank transfers and banking operations than conflicts"

"The 'Ndrangheta no longer shoots, but buys everything". The words of the prosecutor Nicola Gratteri
The 'Ndrangheta makes more transfers and banking operations than firefights. This is supported by Catanzaro's chief prosecutor Nicola Gratteri , who has been living under escort since 1989, in an interview with the magazine "Famiglia Cristiana".

The magistrate took stock of the situation regarding the 'Ndrangheta, which today is the most powerful mafia , the most branched, a holding company capable of invoicing 50 billion euros a year, able to reinvest 75 percent of its earnings in the legal economy.
"With the proceeds of drug trafficking and other crimes the 'Ndrangheta is now buying as many businesses as it can from Rome upwards, in all European countries, Australia and New York: hotels, restaurants, pizzerias - he said - The 'Ndrangheta no longer shoots, but buys everything. "

During the interview the chief prosecutor explained why the guard dropped in the country :

"The 'Ndrangheta's way of acting does not include shootings, burned cars or murders. It does not create social alarm. Public opinion, in the North but not only, is convinced even today that there is no Mafia in its neighborhood. Now, however, even the South American mafias are buying in the North. The cartels, especially the Colombian ones, which carry cocaine in Europe, only for 9% of the amount they want to be paid in Europe, investing their proceeds here ".

In concluding, the magistrate said:

"The 'Ndrangheta made a great leap in quality in the seventies with the foundation of the' Saint ', a further hierarchical level of the organization that allowed the double affiliation to the' Ndrangheta and the diverted Freemasonry. This has involved ever closer contacts between the mafia and the cadres of the ruling class and institutions. Net of the good investigative results, the situation got out of hand a little for everyone: the police, the judiciary, educators, even the Church. It is a disturbing cultural sign ”.