UK to come under scrutiny in Italy’s largest mafia trial in decades Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Alessia Candito in Reggio Calabria © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Gianluca Chininea/AFP/Getty Images
In a high-security, 1,000-capacity courtroom converted from a call centre, Italy’s largest mafia trial in three decades is under way in Lamezia Terme, Calabria. About 900 witnesses are set to testify against more than 350 defendants, including politicians and officials charged with being members of the ’Ndrangheta, Italy’s most powerful criminal group.
Several of the defendants will be asked to respond to charges of money laundering over establishing companies in the UK with the alleged purpose of simulating legitimate economic activity.
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