P4 - 'Ndrangheta - "The Cocaine Gateway"
The port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria has long been considered one of the main cocaine gateways into Europe. In this episode we're going to tell the story of the 'ndrangheta and this port. How its completion in the 1990s coincided with the rise of the 'ndrangheta, were certain clans control this important node of the international cocaine market.
Our guest Anna Sergi takes us from a 'faida' ('ndrangheta feud) from her childhood in Gioia Tauro to the growth of the Piromalli 'ndrina. And from the "mother of all extortion" to the international expansion of the 'ndrangheta.
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
(Podcast) Clan del Golfo: The Fall of Otoniel
(Paper) - Transnational Tentacles: Global Hotspots of Balkan Organized Crime
(Book) Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World by Anna Sergi, Alexandria Reid, Luca Storti, Marleen Easton.
(Podcast) The Index - episode 3 & 4 "Italy and mafia" - https://link.chtbl.com/TheIndex
The Global Organized Crime Index - Country Profile - Italy
OCCRP - Sting Operation Reveals ‘Ndrangheta-Colombian Cartel Partnership
Europol YouTube - Operation TRE CROCI
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