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Refugee business in hands of mafia in Italy

This file photo taken on November 3, 2016 shows migrants and refugees on a rubber boat before to be rescued by the ship Topaz Responder run by Maltese NGO Moas and the Red Cross, off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea, on November 3, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Max Civili
Press TV, Rome

Mafia clans have been running refugee reception centres in Italy for over a decade making millions of euros. A recent police operation led to the arrest of 68 individuals many of whom belonged to a powerful southern Italy mafia ring. Our correspondent in Rome Max Civili has more in this report. 

 


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