How the Italian mafia allegedly infiltrated Canadian banks
The wiretap evidence never made it to trial after lawyers for the accused argued police abused their powers and violated their clients’ rights.
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The wiretap evidence never made it to trial after lawyers for the accused argued police abused their powers and violated their clients’ rights.
The three others arrested in the case had their charges stayed last year. Project Sindacato ended in July 2019 with nine members of an alleged crime family in Vaughan facing charges as part of a multi-million-dollar investigation into ties with the mob in Italy. “The issue we alleged was that investigators were improperly accessing communications, involving lawyers,” Lacy, who represented Figliomeni, told the Toronto Sun Wednesday. York Regional Police cut the locks on gambling machines seized during raids in an illegal gaming investigation named Project Sindacato in Vaughan, Ontario,...