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Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
This week I got to speak to Professor Anna Sergi, who is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Essex. We got to cover a few main areas of her research, including Italian organized crime overall, the ‘ndrangheta (both in Italy and internationally), as well as the role of shipping in global cocaine markets, an area in which the ‘ndrangheta is personally involved.
If you’ve heard the ‘about the podcast’ episode, you might remember that Italian organized crime groups in the NY, particularly the Sicilian La Cosa Nostra, was what initially piqued my own interests in the world of organized crime and drugs. So it was particularly interesting for me to get to talk to Anna about the state of Italian mafias today and just how prominent the ‘ndrangheta has become in the last few decades.
Some links:
- Anna's professional profile
- Anna's twitter
- Her e-book, The Port Crime Interface
- Not her's, but here's the article on EncroChat and the one linking Wirecard and the 'ndrangheta I reference in the intro
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