{"id":24813,"date":"2018-12-08T23:23:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T23:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24813"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:23:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T23:23:03","slug":"inside-europes-most-powerful-mafia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24813","title":{"rendered":"Inside Europe&#8217;s most powerful mafia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Back in 2010, Domenico Oppedisano was often seen taking his fruit to market in the town of Rosarno in southern Italy, chugging around in his three-wheeled van. But the 80-year old had another job: he was &#8216;chairman of the board&#8217; of Italy&#8217;s most powerful mafia group &#8212; the &#8216;Ndrangheta.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/05\/europe\/mafia-investigation-arrests-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">police in four European countries carried out raids<\/a> on the &#8216;Ndrangheta&#8217;s sprawling empire of money-laundering and drug-trafficking, arresting 90 people. They described &#8220;Operation Pollino&#8221; &#8212; two years in the making &#8211; as a &#8220;decisive strike against one of the most powerful Italian criminal networks in the world.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The operation took place the day after the alleged head, or &#8220;godfather,&#8221; of the Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, was arrested with 46 other people in the Palermo region of Italy on mafia charges.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Back in 2010, Domenico Oppedisano was often seen taking his fruit to market in the town of Rosarno in southern Italy, chugging around in his three-wheeled van. But the 80-year old had another job: he was &#8216;chairman of the board&#8217; of Italy&#8217;s most powerful mafia group &#8212; the &#8216;Ndrangheta.This week, police in four European countries&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}