US EditionItalian third-tier club Crotone under court control for Mafia infiltration
Judicial oversight aims to restore legal operations at Crotone after evidence showed 'Ndrangheta Mafia influence in security and ticketing.
- Crotone, a Serie C team from Italy's third division, has been placed under court-appointed administration for one year following police discoveries of extensive Mafia involvement.
- The prosecutors' office of Catanzaro stated that Crotone had faced intimidation and subjugation over the last decade by local 'Ndrangheta Mafia clans.
- The local mob infiltrated the club’s security and ticketing operations while Crotone sits seventh in Serie C Group C with five points from four games.
- Authorities found ample proof of infiltration, but the investigation does not target the club as an entity; instead, it will work alongside court-appointed administrators to maintain its operations.
- The judicial administration aims to steer the club’s economic activities back to legality while ensuring its sporting operations proceed under supervision.
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Crotone, a C series club, was placed under judicial administration for a year after the police found "sufficient evidence" of a generalised mafia infiltration, the prosecutors announced.
From the elements acquired during the preliminary investigations of the DDA of Catanzaro, sufficient indications have emerged to believe that the economic activity, including that of an entrepreneurial character, of FC Crotone s.r.l. has been subjected, during the last decade, directly or at least indirectly to conditions of intimidation and subjection by members of articulate and branched cosche of the DDA of Catanzaro.
Italian justice has been investigating for months the involvement of the 'Ndrangheta, the mafia organization that dominates the Calabria region, with Crotone.
Italian third-tier club Crotone under court control for Mafia
ROME: Italian third division soccer club Crotone has been placed under judicial administration for a year after police found “sufficient evidence” of pervasive Mafia infiltration, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Crotone, based in the southern Calabria region that is home to the powerful ‘Ndrangheta Mafia, sit seventh in Group C of the Serie C league on five points from four
The Crotone football club, which plays in Italy's third-strongest league, will be helped by a court next year because, according to the Italian prosecutor's office, the local mafia has interfered in the team's daily operations.
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