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The 'Ndrangheta is considered the most dangerous of mafia organisations active in Switzerland, in part because many of its members are integrated in Swiss society. © Keystone / Gian Ehrenzeller
With mafia activity having expanded north of the Alps, Swiss and Italian authorities are stepping up cooperation, including leading joint investigative operations, says Italy's top mafia and anti-terror prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo.
This content was published on February 18, 2023 - 17:56 February 18, 2023 - 17:56 NZZ/gw Recent high-profile arrests of mafiosi, including a boss of the Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro, show that“our anti-mafia efforts and transnational cooperation are working,” Melillo told the neue zürcher zeitung newspaperexternal link .
Melillo became his country's top mafia prosecutor in May 2022, after having headed the country's largest public prosecutor's office, in Naples. The mafia, he told the NZZ, has long outgrown the Mezzogiorno, the southern region of Italy.
'Today, this border [for mafia activity] has already moved across the Alps,' he said. His first visit abroad in his new role was to Bern to meet the federal prosecutor, Stefan Blättler, last November.
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