A nun has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of colluding with the mafia.
Sister Anna Donelli, a volunteer in Milan’s San Vittore jail, is suspected of performing as a go-between with the prison group and its jailed gang members.
Donelli can be well-known for her service in Milan’s rundown districts, and obtained town’s annual “Golden Panettone” civic award earlier this 12 months.
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Donelli is thought for her work in Milan’s San Vittore Jail. File pic: Excessive Distinction
It has not been attainable to achieve her lawyer for remark.
A police assertion mentioned two native politicians had been additionally arrested, and that €1.8m (£1.49m) had been seized within the operation, however didn’t identify any of the individuals focused within the raid.
Suspects are accused of varied crimes together with mafia affiliation, vote shopping for, unlawful possession of weapons, cash laundering, loan-sharking, drug dealing and false invoicing, police added.
The alleged gang was linked to the problem of €12m (£9.94m) value of invoices for non-existent transactions that enabled complicit entrepreneurs to decrease their revenue and evade taxes in return for a fee paid to mobsters.
Initially from the poor southern area of Calabria, the ‘Ndrangheta has advanced into Italy’s strongest mafia organisation.
The group has unfold throughout Europe and the remainder of the world, penetrating so-called white-collar crime.
