Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Italy’s most feared mafia clan smuggled cocaine using Costa Concordia

thetimes.co.uk - The doomed cruise ship Costa Concordia was used to smuggle cocaine by Italy’s most feared mafia, police have revealed.

Investigators using wiretaps discovered that ‘Ndrangheta gangsters from Calabria had found a way to smuggle cocaine to Europe from Latin America and the Caribbean using cruise ships. Twenty people have been arrested following the revelations.

In one overheard conversation about shipments, mobsters discussed “the ship that made us look ridiculous all around the world”.

For prosecutors there was no doubt that the men “were referring to the Costa Concordia and the famous shipwreck of January 13, 2012,” court documents cited by

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