A police operation is underway against the 'Ndrangheta, coordinated by the Turin Public Prosecutor's Office, which sees over 200 men and women from the Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate involved in the national territory and about a hundred units of the State Police, the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Finanza with the support of canine units, helicopters and soldiers of the Caserta Engineers Regiment, as well as 500 agents of the Criminal Police of Baden-Wuttemberg, of the Economic and Financial Police of Ulm, of the Romanian and Spanish police.
The operation, called 'Platinum-Dia, represents, according to the investigators, "a hard blow" to the' Ndrangheta. In addition to the Italian territory, Germany, Romania and Spain are involved.
There are numerous precautionary custody measures and searches, issued by the Court of Turin at the request of the Piedmontese DDA and coordinated by DNA, in Italy and Germany, against subjects deemed to be affiliated with the 'Ndrangheta. These are subjects active in the "local" of Volpiano (Turin), considered the economic terminal of the Agresta family of Platì (RC), as well as towards exponents of the Giorgi family, called "Boviciani", of San Luca (RC), held responsible of international drug trafficking and active in Piedmont, Calabria, Sardinia and, in Germany, in the Land of Baden Wuerttemberg, in the tourist resorts of Lake Constance.
In addition to the execution of various precautionary measures, the 'Platinum-Dia' operation led to numerous preventive seizures of assets consisting of cooperative and construction companies, real estate, cars, bank and postal current accounts, corresponding to a value of many millions of EUR. The measure includes five companies operating in the catering sector, in particular the Caffè Millechicchi roasting company and the VIP'S bar in Turin, a tobacco shop in via Volpiano, also in the Piedmontese capital; in the real estate sector GP Immobiliare and, in the building sector, the company General Construction, companies based in Turin. Checks and searches have been underway since dawn also in northern Sardinia by the carabinieri of the Compagnia di Alghero.
"The maxi Platinum-DIA operation conducted in Turin and with branches in Germany, Spain and Romania demonstrates the pervasiveness of the 'Ndrangheta but above all the strength of the state". Thus Nicola Morra president of the Anti-Mafia commission. "My personal applause goes to the DIA and the work of the director Maurizio Vallone and the liaison officer of the Anti-Mafia commission, Colonel Luigi Grasso, who among other things made it possible to create a direct line of synergies and exchange of information - he continues - . Local of Volpiano linked to the Agresta family of Platì, the Boviciani family of San Luca these are the founding elements of a European mafia network. This is the dangerousness of the Calabrian Ndrangheta that continues to be underestimated ". "In addition to the necessary thanks to hundreds of women and men of the Italian and other European countries' police forces, I wonder how much we still want to underestimate the problem - continues the M5S exponent -. We have a criminal force in the field that has not only monopolized a territory and enslaved it for its criminal ends, but has an impressive economic strength with which it is capable of expanding everywhere in Europe. The judiciary, including the European one, is fighting with all its might, Italian politics should also do so, having Calabria as a priority ".but it has an impressive economic strength with which it is capable of expanding everywhere in Europe. The judiciary, including the European one, is fighting with all its might, Italian politics should also do so, having Calabria as a priority ".but it has an impressive economic strength with which it is capable of expanding everywhere in Europe. The judiciary, including the European one, is fighting with all its might, Italian politics should also do so, having Calabria as a priority ".
