Italian club placed under judicial control over mafia infiltration
The mafia infiltrated an Italian football club. This is what happened next
- Italian third-tier football club Crotone has been placed under judicial administration for one year following police findings of pervasive mafia infiltration.
- The decision was made after prosecutors found "sufficient evidence" that the club had been subjected to intimidation and subjugation by local 'Ndrangheta Mafia clans over the last decade.
- The 'Ndrangheta Mafia specifically infiltrated the club's security and ticketing operations, prompting the intervention.
- Crotone, based in the southern Calabria region, will continue its sporting activities but under the supervision of court-appointed administrators.
- The club stated it would collaborate with the administrators and denied any complicity or connivance by its shareholders or managers, while prosecutors aim to steer its economic activities back onto a legal path.