Sister Anna Donelli, the nun who acted as an intermediary and who has been arrested in an operation against the Calabrian mafia

The Italian Police 25 people were arrested this Thursday in an operation in Brescia (northern Italy) against the ‘Ndranghetathe Calabrian mafiaand among them is a nun who “used her position as a religious” to enter prisons and act as intermediary between prisoners and the criminal organization.

It’s about Sor Anna Donelliwho had been volunteering in a Milan prison for almost two decades.

Financial funds and assets have also been seized from the detainees, residents of the Italian provinces of Brescia, Milan, Calabria, Como, Lecco, Varese and Viterbo, and in Spain. more than 1.8 million eurosas reported this Thursday by the Police.

The investigation, coordinated by the Anti-Mafia Prosecutor’s Office and the Brescia Prosecutor’s Office, made it possible to verify the existence of a ‘Ndrangheta criminal organization that operated in the province and that had established with other groups on the outskirts of Brescia “a mutual assistance agreement with the purpose of carrying out criminal activities”.

The organization was able to “penetrate penitentiary structures and send messages to inmates” using a nun who took advantage of “his spiritual position” to freely access prisons, the Police confirmed in a statement.

Sister Anna Donelli

The nun, whose identity was revealed by local media, is Anna Donelli, what was he wearing 15 years as a volunteer in the San Vittore prison in Milan after having carried out the same work in other prisons in Pavia and Rome.

They were also placed under house arrest Giovanni Acriformer municipal councilor of Brescia from the Brothers of Italy party, and Mauro Galeazzi, former member of the League in the municipality of Castel Mella, already arrested in the past for bribery and later acquitted and who is now accused of making a pact with the mafia to obtain electoral support from the clan in exchange for future illicit reciprocal economic benefits.

The detainees are accused of extortion, arms and drug traffickingreceipt of stolen goods, usury, tax crimes, money laundering, as well as political-mafia electoral exchange.

The “local” organization was capable of “carrying out the typical actions of mafia organizations”; such as extortion, drug and weapons trafficking, reception and political-mafioso electoral exchange, because they were able to replicate the associative link of their parent company.

In addition, they would have formed multiple “front” companies that They operated in the scrap metal trading sectorwho issued fictitious invoices for about 12 million euros, with the aim of allowing the complicit businessmen, discounting the commission that corresponded to the organization, to benefit from the tax reduction and launder the money coming from the crimes committed, they explained. in a statement.