‘In England there are many Ndrangheta.’ Ross Kemp: Mafia & Britain s1e4: Italy, man in the know, History 2024
The cartels started to send huge shipments of cocaine direct to Stephen in Europe … Stephen joined forces with other Britain gangsters and together they became Europe’s most prolific cocaine smugglers. ibid.
Hailing from Calabria in the south of Italy, the Ndrangheta are probably the least well known Mafia faction. ibid.
‘The Ndrangheta’s interests in the UK have figured prominently as clans have used the country as an investment and money-laundering base.’ Ross Kemp: Mafia & Britain s1e5, Italian prosecutor
The rise and fall of Salvatore Toto Riina is a story of the most dramatic period in the history of Italian organised crime. Though the Sicilian Mafia is only one of several criminal syndicates in Italy, under Riina’s guidance it achieved a position of unprecedented power, and subverted the highest levels of the Italian government. Lords of the Mafia with Robert Stack VI: The Mafia in Italy Today
The most effective Mafia prosecution in history. ibid.
‘They went into the real estate business in a very major way.’ ibid. comment
A violent war in the battle for domination that laid the groundwork for the rise of Salvatoe Riina. ibid.
Mafia involvement in refining and smuggling heroin had a dramatic consequence on the people of Italy. ibid.