Edgardo Greco had been on the lam for 16 years. Back in Italy, he allegedly had ties to the most powerful crime organization not only in his home country, but the entire world. The ‘Ndrangheta is a vast crime network centered in Calabria, the mountainous southern region at the toe of the country, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
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While not as well-known by the public as the Sicilian mafia, the organization made up of various clans has been steadily growing into a behemoth underworld powerhouse that controls the cocaine trade in Europe and has a hand in other illegal activities, like human trafficking, and gunrunning, raking in an estimated $60 billion U.S. a year, per OCCRP. In January 1991, Greco beat two members of a rival clan, brothers Stefano and Giuseppe Bartolomeo, to death in a fish market in Cosenza, according to CBS News. Italian authorities also allegedly tied him to a separate attempted murder.
