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Article: Mafia experttargets ulster gangs Hitting assets 'broke the Cosa Nostra'
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- January 20, 2006
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An Italian Mafia expert has predicted that organised crime gangs
in Northern Ireland can be smashed if the authorities continue to
target their assets.Academic Luigi Sergio Germani said that many of
the tactics which were used by Sicilian police to break the power of
the Cosa Nostra could be similarly applied to the province which has
seen a large increase inorganised crime gangs.Mr Germani, professorin
security studies at Link Campus University, Rome, was in the province
recently where he is studying the involvement of republicans in
organised crime.He saidthe Assets Recovery Agency, which has
economically targeted both republican and loyalist criminals, could
bring down counterfeiting and ...