The associations were used for money laundering © SID-IMAGES/Pixathlon /.Because of ties to the powerful mafia organization ' Ndrangheta have the Italian judicial authorities two fourth Division having made.
Rome (SID) - due to connections to the powerful mafia organization ' Ndrangheta have the Italian judicial authorities placed two four football club in the Calabria region under receivership and taken out of play. The clubs Interpiana di CITTANOVA and AS SAPRI according to the investigators in fact owned by two clans of the Organization are of the ' Ndrangheta be been used for money laundering.
The ' Ndrangheta is regarded as the most powerful mafia organization on the European continent. In the recent past, the secret society reached estimated annual of almost EUR 44 billion.
The clubs at least temporary decommissioning took place during a vast police operation against organized crime in Calabria. It confiscated the authorities assets amounting to EUR 190 million.
Interpiana and SAPRI are not the first Club being targeted by mafia investigators. In recent years, football clubs had gotten on the Apennine mountains several times under suspicion of money laundering for criminal organizations.
