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German police, city officials probed over Italian mob ties

German police, city officials probed over Italian mob ties | iNFOnews.ca
From left, Federico Cafiero De Raho, Italy's Anti-Mafia and Anti-terrorism national prosecutor, Reggio Calabria's prosecutors Giovanni Bombardieri and Giuseppe Lombardo meet the media during a press conference in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. Police in Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands have arrested at least 84 suspected mobsters and seized some 2 million euros in a series of coordinated raids targeting a powerful branch of the Italian Mafia. The raids are the culmination of an investigation launched in 2016 against the 'ndrangheta criminal group on allegations of cocaine trafficking, money laundering, bribery and violence. Eurojust, the European prosecution agency, coordinated the raids. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)

BERLIN – Prosecutors in western Germany say they are investigating five current and former police and municipal officials on suspicion that they passed information to Italian mobsters or their helpers.

The dpa news agency reported that prosecutors in Duisburg said Thursday the five include two police officers and an employee of Wesseling, a town outside Cologne. They are being investigated on suspicion of breaching official secrecy laws. Prosecutors declined to elaborate on the type of information that was allegedly leaked.

The disclosure came a day after police in four European countries arrested at least 84 suspected mobsters in a series of carefully co-ordinated raids. Those detained, who included 14 in Germany, allegedly work for the Italian ‘ndrangheta criminal network that prosecutors say traffics in cocaine and launders money on a global scale.

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