Organized Crime in Italy - Basilischi

Basilischi

The Basilischi are a mafia organization founded in 1994 in Potenza. This organization has assumed a role for the control of illegal activities in the region. They are believed to be an independently run 'ndrina from the Rosarno Alliance involving 5 clans of in the provinces of Reggio Calabria & Gioia Tauro plain. Not a lot is known of them.

There is another belief that this group was created by local crime bosses and criminals with the help of the Pesce and Serraino 'Ndrangheta clans from Rosarno in the northern and western areas of the region of Calabria and so would more than likely be smuggling drugs and arms up Italy into the rest of Italy for these Clans.

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