Most recently on Lake Garda
Italy’s mafia is investing more and more in tourism
Clans of the Ndrangheta, the mafia in southern Italy, are increasingly focusing on tourism. The authorities have already confiscated eight companies that were active in agriculture, gastronomy and tourism.
Their headquarters were located in the Lombard cities of Brescia and Mantua. The companies with a turnover of 15 million euros can be traced back to an entrepreneur from Verona who is accused of mafia involvement, the anti-mafia authorities announced. He was placed under house arrest. His companies had recently invested heavily around Lake Garda.
Laundering black money
The legal economic sectors are used to launder black money in private companies. According to a dossier by the national anti-mafia authority DNA, Lombardy is the region in which the Ndrangheta is most widespread after Calabria.
Investigations recently revealed that the influential clan from Calabria wanted to build a casino in the small town of Sirmione on Lake Garda. However, the project was thwarted due to the investigations into the 63-year-old entrepreneur.
This article has been automatically translated,
read the original article here.
Da dieser Artikel älter als 18 Monate ist, ist zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt kein Kommentieren mehr möglich.
Wir laden Sie ein, bei einer aktuelleren themenrelevanten Story mitzudiskutieren: Themenübersicht.
Bei Fragen können Sie sich gern an das Community-Team per Mail an forum@krone.at wenden.