Thursday, September 17, 2009

Mafia sinking ship

ROME - Italian authorities have found the wreck of the ship with 180 barrels of toxic material, which sank the mafia, and it is believed that more than 30 such vessels lying along the southern coast of Italy, tell the Italian officials. The location of the ship revealed Francesco Fund, former member of criminal organization Ndrangeta, based in Calabria, who testified that the explosives used to sink and the two broda.Brod with barrels, which officials fear it could contain radioactive material found at 500 meters depth in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 28 kilometers from the coast of Calabria. TV clips, which was recorded underwater camera, show that at least one barrel fell from the boat and empty lies at the bottom of the sea.
- It could be a problem with poisons and heavy metals ... this is a problem throughout the international community - said Silvestro Greco, director of the Agency for Environmental Protection in Calabria.
Greco said that investigators believe that the mafia I sank 32 ships with toxic material, after the introduction of more stringent laws in the field of environmental protection eighties of last century, which is illegal waste disposal, became a lucrative business for criminal groups.

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