Giuseppe Sandro Mela.
2017-08-01.
«It seems that the ‘Ndrangheta has fallen in love with Hong Kong and the honeymoon is far from over.»
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«Italian mafia families have begun using Hong Kong as a base for financial crimes»
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«There are many “soft spots” in the world: some of them are haunted by organized crime, some others are known to turn sometimes a blind eye to illicit money, and certain individuals are capable of making huge fortunes by connecting the two dots on a map»
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«When “The Pope,” Emanuele Sangiovanni, and 38 other people were arrested in 2014 Italian investigators seized goods, apartments, bank accounts, and 39 companies worth dozens of millions of euros. From a tiny office in Brianza with no windows and no toilets, dubbed “il tugurio” (“the shack”), Pensabene and his organization were able to launder several million euros for their Calabrian cousins, working as the financial arm of the southern clans deeply involved in cocaine trafficking»