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Two major Italian-based organized crime cells were “dismantled” Thursday, police say, after 29 people were arrested in a series of early morning raids in Quebec.
Three people are still wanted, including a 49-year-old Gatineau man, according to the RCMP.
Police said they targeted the leaders as well as all the key players in a “very dangerous and well-structured networks.” The people who were arrested face a slew of 87 charges, including kidnapping, extortion and possession of weapons and explosives.
Giovanni Gerbasi of Gatineau is among the three men still wanted by police.
More than 200 officers participated in raids which were meant to break up what police are calling two “violent and active” cells — one led by the now-deceased mob boss Giuseppe De Vito and the other by association with a group known as the Bastone brothers.
They are believed to have taken over organized crime after a three-year investigation that led to the arrest of four Mafia bosses, including reputed godfather Nicolo Rizzuto, in November 2006.
As a part of Thursday’s raids — dubbed Operation Clemenza by the RCMP — investigators conducted 10 searches and seized two residences in Laval and St-Côme that belonged to Roberto Bastone as well as two bank accounts, a total estimated value of $1 million.
Project Clemenza, which began in 2010, intercepted more than a million private messages sent using BlackBerry’s pin-to-pin messaging, which led police to identify suspects in relation to a series of violent crimes that included arson, forcible confinement and drug trafficking.
The RCMP said it was first time that this technique to gather and analyze the messages was used on such a large scale on a major investigation in North America.
With files from the Montreal Gazette
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Three people are still wanted, including a 49-year-old Gatineau man, according to the RCMP.
Police said they targeted the leaders as well as all the key players in a “very dangerous and well-structured networks.” The people who were arrested face a slew of 87 charges, including kidnapping, extortion and possession of weapons and explosives.
Giovanni Gerbasi of Gatineau is among the three men still wanted by police.
More than 200 officers participated in raids which were meant to break up what police are calling two “violent and active” cells — one led by the now-deceased mob boss Giuseppe De Vito and the other by association with a group known as the Bastone brothers.
They are believed to have taken over organized crime after a three-year investigation that led to the arrest of four Mafia bosses, including reputed godfather Nicolo Rizzuto, in November 2006.
As a part of Thursday’s raids — dubbed Operation Clemenza by the RCMP — investigators conducted 10 searches and seized two residences in Laval and St-Côme that belonged to Roberto Bastone as well as two bank accounts, a total estimated value of $1 million.
Project Clemenza, which began in 2010, intercepted more than a million private messages sent using BlackBerry’s pin-to-pin messaging, which led police to identify suspects in relation to a series of violent crimes that included arson, forcible confinement and drug trafficking.
The RCMP said it was first time that this technique to gather and analyze the messages was used on such a large scale on a major investigation in North America.
With files from the Montreal Gazette
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