I have had the opportunity to go through the anti-mafia report presented to the Italian parliament by the Italian anti-mafia authorities for the first half of 2021 and from there I picked up the Maltese connections. It seems it is only through the Italian authorities that we get to know of some of the dirty mafia dealings in our country. On the Malta Police front, the silence is quite often deafening on these issues. It seems that the Malta Police only act when the Italians discover something. The following is the select list of the identified Malta-connected Mafia/’Ndrangheta/ Camorra operations in our ‘din l-art ħelwa’ for the first half of 2021, according to the Italian anti-mafia police: January 8, 2021 – the Procura della Repubblica di Milano issued a freezing order on a number of business operators who had concocted a complicated fraud mechanism whereby they could defraud the Italian state through offshore companies in the UK and the use of bank accounts in Switzerland and Malta. February 2, 2021 –Operation ‘Buonaventura’ concerning the Napoli clan Genovese and the Catania Cappello-Bonaccorsi mafia clan. Cocaine and hash were imported from Spain via Sicily and Malta and...
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