Steve Robson and Hannah Roberts at the British newspaper the Daily Mail offer a piece on a money laundering and luxury property scheme involving a former IRA member and Italian organized crime.
An IRA Militant is on the run from Italian police after they cracked an alleged money laundering scheme linked to mafia gangs.
A European arrest warrant has been issued for Henry James Fitzsimons, 63, a convicted terrorist from Belfast, after 20 alleged members of a criminal gang were arrested and assets worth 390 million during the operation.
He is accused of conspiring with the 'Ndrangheta mafia to launder drug-trafficking money by investing in luxury properties along the Calabrian coast of southern Italy.
The IRA allegedly sent Fitzsimons to launder drug-trafficking profits with the help of the Italian mafia gang 'Ndrangheta, according to the news agancy AGL.
Fitzsimons had invested around 12 million Euros with the mafia and a group of Spanish entrepreneurs to build resorts and luxury residences on some of the most beautiful, undeveloped beaches of Calabria, police said.
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