Italy's top anti-mafia cop says organized-crime groups are working together to control drug traffick

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Italy's top anti-mafia cop says organized-crime groups are working together to control drug trafficking
Colleen Barry, Associated Press

Italy police seize 'Ndrangheta mafia cocaine in Mediterranean Italian police pose with cocaine found floating at sea near southern Italy. Guardia di Finanza di Reggio Calabria

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s new national anti-mafia prosecutor said Thursday that Italian organized crime gangs are increasingly cooperating to control international drug trafficking.

Prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho told an anti-mafia conference in Milan that the Italian mafias "are not isolated. By now, they move together. The ’ndrangheta, Cosa Nostra, Camorra, also the groups from Puglia" work together, coordinating, for example, ports they use for heroin and cocaine shipments.

"They are able to change the commander on a ship in Panama, and insert their own commander, so the ship can handle a big transport of drugs," Cafiero De Raho said, illustrating their reach.

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