During an action day executed by 10 countries, 132 members of one of the world’s most powerful criminal networks have been taken into custody, EU’s police agency, Europol, reported Wednesday.
In the early hours of today, law enforcement authorities in Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Romania, Brazil and Panama raided multiple locations and seized several companies. Over 2 , 770 officers were involved on the ground during the action day, it said in a press release.
The international operation against the ‘Ndrangheta, which now stands as the largest hit involving the Italian poly-criminal syndicate to date.
The mafia-style organization is responsible for much of Europe’s cocaine trade, combined with systematic money laundering, bribery, and violence, it said.
The criminal network under investigation was led by several powerful ‘Ndrangheta families based mainly in the town of San Luca, which is in the Italian province of Reggio Calabria, said Europol which is based in the Dutch city of the Hague
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