Freemasons and the mob: how forging ties with lodges shaped the history of the Italian mafia

When magistrates up and down Italy announced the results of a massive operation against Italy’s powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia involving 100 arrests and multimillion-euro property seizures, one small detail about the raids went unnoticed.

Amid the flurry of news last week about the global reach of the Molés, one of the clans making up the ‘Ndrangheta, police reported that packets of cocaine the mob smuggled in from South America were stamped with a logo featuring an eye and a compass — the symbol of the freemasons.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/freemasons-and-the-mob-how-forging-ties-with-lodges-shaped-the-history-of-the-italian-mafia-bxf677wtc

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