‘Ndrangheta, the businessman Antonio Ricci extradited from Malta arrives in Italy

January 18, 2020

Eventually the king of online betting on behalf of the ‘ndrangheta will respond to Italian justice. He was extradited and arrived in Italy late yesterday evening 44-year-old Antonio Ricci, an entrepreneur active in the criminal gambling sector, arrested last December in Malta in execution of a European arrest warrant, after he had escaped to the capture in Operation Galaxy.
On that occasion, in 2018, at the end of an investigation by the DDA of Reggio Calabria, 18 people were arrested for a plurality of criminal associations operating throughout Italy active in the betting collection sector in relation to the main gangs of De Stefano-Tegano, Pesce-Bellocco and Piromalli.
Last December, the Court of Reggio, at the request of the DDA had ordered the seizure of the assets attributable to Ricci and the family, for 400 million euros.