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‘Ndrangheta “maxi-trial” aims to give 322 defendants 5,000 years in prison.

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Albanian organized crime leader arrested in Glyfada, Greece

Albanian organized crime leader arrested in Glyfada, Greece

Following several months of collaboration between the Drug Prosecution Department, the Operational Directorate of the Greek Internal Revenue Service (SDOE) Attica, and Dutch officials, a 52-year-old Greek citizen of Albanian descent was detained.  The man’s name remains unknown at this time.

The man, who is the alleged head of a sizable drug cartel, was apprehended in Glyfada, Greece. According to a European Arrest Warrant, he was wanted for being the orchestrator for networking large sums of money, obtained from the illegal drug trade, in the Netherlands.

Funds were laundered everyday using a secretive banking system that lived on encrypted chat platforms, as reported by the Ministry of Finance. It is estimated that for a period of about 10 months, approximately 250,000,000 euros were sent through the network.

Banknotes in Euros, US dollars, Canadian dollars, Australian dollars, Swiss francs, Turkish Lira, United Arab Emirates dirhams, and South African rand, were confiscated by Greek officials upon searching the suspect’s home.

Authorities seized digital discs, SIM cards, and mobile phones, including one used for encrypted chats using certain programs, and other mobile devices.

Since there appears to be more money laundering cases developing in Greece, the Operational Directorate of S.D.O.E. Attica continues to work with the aforementioned Dutch Authorities and the nation’s competent judicial authorities on this matter.

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Montreal mafia figure Francesco Del Balso shot and killed near local gym

Montreal mafia figure Francesco Del Balso shot and killed near local gym

A prominent member of Montreal’s organized crime was shot and killed on Monday afternoon.

In Dorval on Montreal’s West Island, Francesco Del Balso was shot near a local Monster Gym.

Upon the arrival of police, Del Balso was pronounced dead at the scene.

Del Balso was arrested in 2006 as part of the Montreal Mafia’s Operation Colisée purge. He was found guilty of gang activity and cocaine smuggling conspiracy.

After being freed from jail in 2016, his return to custody was mandated due to safety concerns. A parole board from that time decided that he was potentially the next victim of the Montreal War.

After his release in 2018, he was detained by Laval, Quebec police in September 2022 in relation to threats and extortion against local nuns.

His house and the residences of three prominent Hells Angels members were both searched by the Sûreté du Québec in March of last year as part of a drug trafficking investigation.

The gangland hit is the third Canadian-mafia-related slaying in 2023, like the failed attempt on Leonardo Rizzuto’s life in March, which some believe Del Balso was responsible for

The daughter-in-law of Montreal Mafia member Moreno Gallo, Claudia Iacona, was shot and murdered on May 16 in the parking lot of her beauty parlor in the neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

With the death of Del Balso, it is evident that the Montreal mafia war is far from conclusion.

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