Part 2 - "ndrangheta Royalty Down Under"
In 2007, the Australian Federal Police received a tipoff about a container arriving at the Port of Melbourne. The container had come from Italy and was full of tins of tomatoes, inside those tins was the largest ecstasy bust in the world at that time.
The AFP had discovered an international drug trafficking criminal syndicate at work. At the centre of this was one criminal dynasty, not only were they a prominent Calabrian mafia clan back in Platì, the heart of the 'ndrangheta, but also one of the founding 'ndrangheta clans in Australia.
In this second episode Anna Sergi, author of the new book ‘Chasing the Mafia: 'Ndrangheta, Memories and Journeys', talks about the growth of the 'ndrangheta in Australia through one family, who she describes as "Royalty".
Speaker(s):
Anna Sergi, Professor of Criminology at the University of Essex, member of the GI Network of Experts and author of the new book ‘Chasing the Mafia: 'Ndrangheta, Memories and Journeys'.
Additional Reading
(Book) Chasing the Mafia: 'Ndrangheta, Memories and Journeys by Anna Sergi
(Book) Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present by John Dickie
Anna Sergi blog, University of Essex - A flurry of attention, then collective forgetfulness – 100 years of the ‘ndrangheta Calabrian mafia in Australia
(Podcast) The Index - episode 3 & 4 "Italy and mafia" - https://link.chtbl.com/TheIndex
The Global Organized Crime Index - Country Profile - Italy
The Global Organized Crime Index - Country Profile - Australia
Four Corners (ABC and Fairfax media) - documentary
The Age - Drug accused 'tried to nurture journo'
The Age - Heartache has no end for family of Donald Mackay
The Guardian - Nine charged in raids over gangland murder of Pasquale Barbaro
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