How Mafias Migrate: The Case of the 'Ndrangheta in Northern Italy

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The core problem of Varese is why the Mafia transplant succeeds and fails. Varese uses his successful and unsuccessful cases to support his argument. Examples of success are Sicily Mafia in New York, Ndrangheta in Bardonecchia in northern Italy, Russian mafia in Hungary. Failure included Sicilia Mafia in Argentina, Ndrangheta in Verona in northern Italy, Mafia in Russia in Rome, Taiwan and the underground world in Hong Kong. Varesz recognized that most mafia had been forced to migrate by court order to escape the expansion of judicial or mafia and war. Once they enter the new field, however, they start investing in the local economy. When investment is combined with the specific needs of mafia supply and protection services, the group will settle

Last year, the total sales of Calabrian mafia Ndrangheta, which had formed the toes of Italian boots, was about $ 75 billion. According to the Guardian reported in March this will merge with McDonald's and Deutsche Bank, which is equivalent to 3.5% of Italy's 2013 GDP. It is done through extortion, abuse of loans, gambling, prostitution, and through narcotics and trafficking. At least, according to the Italian Demoscope Institute. Can a mafia really earn McDonald's? It may not be the case. Research institutes in Italy are used to suggesting such things, and the method is not necessarily so scientific. In the paper published at GlobalCrime, the Italian researcher Francco Calderoni of the TransCrime research group pointed out that the tendency to increase these numbers is fully compliant with the "mythical number" theory.

The Italian authorities are investigating the 'Ndrangheta Mafia' clan. It has been accused of human trafficking and illegal dumping of nuclear waste. According to a whistle blower, the administrator of the Italian State Energy Institute Enea paid Somali a family to remove 600 barrel of toxic radioactive waste from Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany and the United States. After buying a local politician, the waste was buried. During the 1980's and 1990's, Enen's former employee was suspected of paying criminals from abandoned hands. The cargo to Somalia continued until the 1990s, 'Ndrangheta also exploded a large amount of waste including radioactive hospital waste and sent it to the ocean floor near the coast of Calabria. According to environmental groups Legambiente, former members of 'Ndrangheta say that they have been compensated for shipwrecks of radioactive materials over the past two decades.