Serie C Club Crotone Placed Under Judicial Administration Due To Mafia Infiltration

The Italian third-tier nine Crotone person been placed nether judicial management for a twelvemonth because constabulary recovered “sufficient evidence” of pervasive Mafia infiltration, prosecutors said connected Tuesday.

Crotone, based successful nan confederate Calabria region that is location to nan powerful ’Ndrangheta Mafia, are seventh successful group C of nan Serie C league, connected 5 points from 4 games. They played successful Serie A for 2 consecutive seasons almost 10 years ago, and successful 2020-21.

Tuesday’s determination intends nan nine will proceed sporting activities but nether nan supervision of court-appointed administrators. The nine are not nether investigation.

The prosecutors’ agency of nan metropolis of Catanzaro said successful a connection that Crotone had been “subjected, complete nan past decade, straight aliases astatine slightest indirectly, to conditions of intimidation and subjugation by members of section ‘Ndrangheta clans”.

The section mob had, successful particular, infiltrated nan club’s information and ticketing operations, and nan judicial management authorities is expected to thief steer Crotone’s economical activities backmost connected to a ineligible path, prosecutors said.

The nine did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. Mafia infiltration of Italian football, including its lucrative merchandising and ticketing businesses, is simply a well-known phenomenon, pinch caller investigations targeting hardline ultra instrumentality groups astatine nan apical clubs Inter and Milan.