Italy‘s three biggest Mafia organisations have formed a Hydra alliance to target the nation’s financial heartland, investigators have said.
The ‘Ndrangheta faction from Calabria, the Camorra of Naples and the Sicilian-based Cosa Nostra clan have joined forces to make the powerful Mafia alliance.
The federation, which has been created to take full advantage of the wealth in the north of Italy, has been likened to a Hydra, the three-headed mythological beast.
But the newfound relationship extends beyond Italian shores with ties being forged with Chinese criminal gangs who specialise in international money smuggling.
The formidable alliance was revealed following Operation Hydra, an investigation by
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