Posted on 06/28/2013 10:32:52 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
A Canadian man from Thunder Bay, Ontario is on trial in an Italian court for alleged association with the 'Ndrangheta or Calabrian Mafia as reported by CBC News: "prosecutors allege that Giuseppe Bruzzese, 66, was caught on tape in a high-level meeting in an Italian laundromat with a top crime boss" although "Bruzzese's lawyer contends his client was only having coffee with a friend."
In recent years the 'Ndrangheta has eclipsed Cosa Nostra or the Sicilian Mafia as Italy's most powerful crime group due to its obscene profits from the cocaine trade in Europe, and it has become entrenched in Australia, Canada and the United States with surprisingly little push back from law enforcement in those countries.
Nicola Gratteri, the chief anti-Mafia prosecutor in Calabria, says he believes "the foreign country where the 'Ndrangheta is the most present is in Canada""
"Mostly in Ontario, especially Toronto, and also in Montreal. We have found in our research there are at least nine 'Ndrangheta localis just in Toronto. Which means there are hundreds of members, as each locali has at least 51 members."
The Calabrian Mafia is suspected of backing a breakaway group from Sicilian mobster Vito Rizzuto for control over the drug rackets in Montreal, QB, and the turf war has resulted in dozens of murders over the last few years.
Calabria, the toe that kicks Sicily!
I had read that the owner of a steel mill had recruited something like 10,000 Italians to come to Sault Ste. Marie.
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