'Ndrangheta

This has impacted reporting projects covering topics from Tren de Aragua in El Salvador to 'Ndrangheta in Italy to money laundering operations buying up real estate in the United States.

He had been on the run since 2023, when prosecutors accused him of being a key figure in the "Lombardy mafia system", which they described as an alliance between the Camorra, Cosa Nostra, and 'Ndrangheta mafia groups.

Sicily's Cosa Nostra has even started working with other gangs, including the notorious and far larger 'Ndrangheta in mainland Italy.

Recreational molly is still illegal in Australia, manufactured or imported by crime syndicates like the ‘Ndrangheta, mafia clans from southern Italy who made their riches in Australia’s drug game by growing weed in the Outback. In 2016, Pasquale Barbaro, the scion of a mob family behind a plot to smuggle a whopping 15 million ecstasy pills weighing 4.4 tonnes hidden in tins of peeled tomatoes, was gunned down by a biker gang while leaving a friends’ house in Sydney.

The nun, named in Italian press as Sister Anna Donelli, was arrested for allegedly acting as a go-between for the 'Ndrangheta mafia and its jailed gang members.