Inside Europe’s most powerful mafia
(CNN)Back in 2010, Domenico Oppedisano was often seen taking his fruit to market in the town of Rosarno in southern Italy, chugging around in his three-wheeled van. But the 80-year old had another job: he was ‘chairman of the board’ of Italy’s most powerful mafia group — the ‘Ndrangheta.
This week, police in four European countries carried out raids on the ‘Ndrangheta’s sprawling empire of money-laundering and drug-trafficking, arresting 90 people. They described “Operation Pollino” — two years in the making – as a “decisive strike against one of the most powerful Italian criminal networks in the world.”
The operation took place the day after the alleged head, or “godfather,” of the Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, was arrested with 46 other people in the Palermo region of Italy on mafia charges.
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