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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:09,640 (bell clangs) 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,800 CONTINUITY ANNOUNCER: We now go over to London 3 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,320 for the latest national and international news. 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,080 REPORTER: Police made a bizarre discovery. 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:24,120 Hanging under Blackfriars Bridge was the body of a man. 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,440 The body was hanging from scaffolding 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,400 underneath the bridge in London. 8 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,800 ROSS KEMP: On the 18th of June 1982, 9 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,560 a corpse was found under this bridge in central London. 10 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,440 (bell clangs) 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,320 REPORTER: He'd been dead between two and six hours. 12 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:48,960 (bell) 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,960 - Five bricks were found in his clothes... 14 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,320 ..plus £7,300 in assorted currency. 15 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,040 KEMP: Details made the death suspicious. 16 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,960 REPORTER: The injuries suggest that he'd been killed 17 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,800 some time earlier... his body brought here... 18 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,760 ..and left hanging to fool the authorities. 19 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:22,760 REPORTER: There is now growing suspicion... 20 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,760 ..that he was murdered. 21 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:27,440 (bell) 22 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:33,360 KEMP: The body was identified... as Roberto Calvi. 23 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,960 REPORTER: The head of a large, private Italian bank. 24 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,640 He was known as ‘God's Banker.' 25 00:01:41,759 --> 00:01:43,680 REPORTER: Signor Calvi's widow and son 26 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,400 maintain that he was murdered 27 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,440 in a plot which implicates the Italian Mafia. 28 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:49,960 (bell) 29 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:51,720 REPORTER: It involved the Mafia. 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,880 REPORTER: ..the Mafia. (bell) 31 00:01:58,759 --> 00:02:01,320 - It was almost... the perfect murder. 32 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,120 - Up until the death of Roberto Calvi, it was assumed 33 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,000 that the Mafia had no business here. But with his murder, 34 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:15,560 it seemed that they were here... and able to operate with impunity. 35 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:22,160 So just how far did the Mafia's tentacles extend throughout Britain? 36 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,200 I'm on a journey to find out. 37 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:34,640 (grave music) 38 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,760 KEMP: The Mafia is one of the oldest organised crime groups 39 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:02,640 in the world, dating back to the 19th century in rural Italy. 40 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:08,320 Over two centuries, its influence has spread across the globe. 41 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,480 - The rackets have become too widespread, 42 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:13,880 too well-organised, and too rich. 43 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,040 KEMP: Smuggling, protection rackets, 44 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,240 robbery, drugs and murder. 45 00:03:24,079 --> 00:03:27,360 - This is the eighth Camorra killing in Naples 46 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:28,520 in six days. 47 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,480 KEMP: Bound by rules and rituals, 48 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:35,440 and led by charismatic characters, 49 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,040 the Mafia has inspired countless books, 50 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,600 movies and television series. 51 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,000 But are they operating in the UK? 52 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,400 And could they have killed, in plain sight, in central London? 53 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,280 - Nice to meet you. KEMP: Peter Bleksley 54 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,120 was a Metropolitan Police detective in 1982. 55 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:09,360 - Peter, can you remember the morning 56 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,120 that Roberto Calvi's body was found hanging underneath this bridge? 57 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,520 - As if it was yesterday. 58 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,279 For a slightly overweight, not very physically able 59 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,760 62-year-old man to clamber over a bridge, 60 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,040 navigate some pretty complex and dangerous scaffolding, 61 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:34,400 almost like an acrobat, to then tie a rope to it, 62 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:38,320 the other end around his neck, weigh himself down with bricks 63 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:43,280 and jump into the River Thames... what? 64 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,560 - So you think murder first? - Yeah. 65 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,320 - Anything else on the body? 66 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,280 - About $14,000 in mixed currency, 67 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,600 lira and Swiss francs and suchlike. 68 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,320 He had a false passport on him. 69 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,200 Roberto Calvi had been chairman of a bank, 70 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,400 and in that bank had been a lot of money 71 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:15,040 belonging to the Vatican. That's why Calvi was known as ‘God's Banker.' 72 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,360 And there were some other people had a very keen interest in him. 73 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:24,120 - What other people? - The Mafia. 74 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:30,240 Roberto Calvi was part of a masonic brotherhood called P2, 75 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:36,320 who were linked to the Mafia, otherwise known as the Black Friars. 76 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,520 And the location, Blackfriars Bridge. 77 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,400 - There was some symbolism to what had happened here? 78 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,960 - Yes. If you're going to kill someone, 79 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:55,040 and you're going to send out messages, this killing had plenty. 80 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,840 - This is all adding up to an example killing. 81 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,960 It's in a very, very public place. - In London. 82 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,400 The Mafia were clearly saying, 83 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:10,040 "You can never rest easy, you can never sleep soundly. 84 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,960 Because wherever you go, we'll find you." 85 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,000 KEMP: The murder of God's Banker under Blackfriars Bridge 86 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,160 is still officially unsolved. 87 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:31,320 If the Mafia did kill him, who carried out the hit, and why? 88 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:32,880 Thank you. 89 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:40,120 Professor John Dickie has tried to unravel the case. 90 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:45,280 So John, why would the Mafia want Calvi out of the way? 91 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:50,640 - Well, Calvi was already deep, deep in trouble. 92 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,120 His bank was spiralling, 93 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:54,800 he'd been prosecuted for various banking offences, 94 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:59,400 and he's becoming more and more desperate for money 95 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,280 to plug the holes in his empire. 96 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,360 And it's at this point, we think he gets in touch 97 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:09,200 with the Sicilian Mafia, and that this is where 98 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,440 things really start to get dangerous. 99 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:13,880 - Because Calvi starts to lose Mafia money? 100 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:15,760 - He starts to lose Mafia money. 101 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,120 - Very, very good reasons 102 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:19,040 for getting rid of him. - Absolutely. 103 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:21,880 - So what is he doing in London? 104 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,640 - It may well be that he was looking around 105 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,600 for more money to try and save his banks, 106 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,720 using his contacts in the City. 107 00:07:32,159 --> 00:07:35,400 KEMP: Calvi thought London was a safe place to go, 108 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:40,880 but John's research has uncovered dangerous Mafia operatives 109 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,560 who were in Britain at the time. 110 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,120 - There was a guy called Francesco Di Carlo in London, 111 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,120 who was a member of the Sicilian Mafia. 112 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:54,480 ‘Frankie The Strangler', 113 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:57,560 they called him. - So Di Carlo is suspected 114 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,560 of being the murderer? - Yeah. But he says: 115 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:04,320 "Actually, they did ask me to do it. 116 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:07,360 But by the time I got back in touch with them, they said, 117 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,760 'Actually, we've already sorted it out. 118 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,760 We've given it to members of the Neapolitan Mafia to do.'" 119 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:16,840 - Right. - The Neapolitans that Di Carlo says 120 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,040 did it, one of them dies six months or so later 121 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,080 in a car bomb in Rome. 122 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:24,400 - Yeah. 123 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,640 - And then the other one, Sergio Vaccari, 124 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,800 gets stabbed to death in London. 125 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,480 He's stabbed in the mouth, 126 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:38,640 which some people speculate is some kind of Mafia signal 127 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:40,640 for keeping your mouth... - Shut. 128 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:42,760 And bricks are found on his body. 129 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:45,680 - Bricks? - Rather in the same style as Calvi. 130 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:50,160 - So John, potentially 131 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,000 Calvi and the man that was suspected of murdering him 132 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,200 were both killed here on British soil? 133 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,480 - Yeah. For me, that's the most likely explanation. 134 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,320 KEMP: No-one was ever brought to justice 135 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,520 for these vicious murders. 136 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:12,840 Whoever killed Calvi successfully covered their tracks. 137 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,440 So was the murder of God's Banker a one-off, 138 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,400 or were there other active Mafia cells operating in the UK? 139 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,200 I start looking for more evidence. 140 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,840 There are very few news articles that refer to the Mafia in the UK 141 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:39,840 over the last 50 years. 142 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:46,280 But one report from 2007 catches my eye. 143 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,600 - He's wanted by Italian police in connection with four murders. 144 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:53,840 But after a year on the run, 145 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,320 officers have finally caught up with Gennaro Panzuto. 146 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,600 He wasn't found in Palermo, but near Preston. 147 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,920 KEMP: Preston is a world away from a Mob war in Naples. 148 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,840 This seems too far-fetched to be true, 149 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,200 so I've headed north to find out more. 150 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,760 - Hello there. Ross. Pleased to meet you. 151 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,560 In 2006, Mick Bury was living in a caravan park 152 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,000 when a new neighbour arrived. 153 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:31,720 His name was Gennaro Panzuto. 154 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,920 - Coming in? - Yeah, love to. 155 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,160 How did you first meet Gennaro Panzuto? 156 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,320 - What happened was, the kids come knocking on my door: 157 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,080 "See, Mick? See, Mick? The Italian guy's 158 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,680 just reversed into your car." I went, "Y'what?" 159 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,360 So I come blazing over, banging on t'door: 160 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,840 "Can't y'see?" - "What've you done to my car?" 161 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,760 He give me two hundred quid. 162 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,880 A bit extra? - A bit extra, yeah. I thought: 163 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,160 "Oh, this is alright." 164 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,880 He said, "Don't go talking about it." 165 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:07,600 - Didn't want the police involved? - No, definitely. 166 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:11,800 - You've got pictures of him. - Yeah. 167 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:19,000 - Good-looking lad, ain't he? - Very smart, very smart. 168 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,000 - He must have stood out? - Well, he did. 169 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,120 I mean, he was an Italian, smooth, charmed, 170 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:28,040 with a bit of swagger. 171 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,680 - Not the guy you'd normally find in this location. 172 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,200 - Exactly, exactly. 173 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,640 But he mixed with everybody. - He was very friendly? 174 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,480 - Yeah, very. Used to buy a round, a pub round of drinks. 175 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:46,160 Then he'd have barbecues. It was good, everybody liked him. 176 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:53,280 KEMP: Panzuto only stayed at the caravan park a few months. 177 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,320 He soon upgraded to a three-bedroom house 178 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:58,480 on the outskirts of Preston. 179 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:03,000 So this is the house? - Yeah, this is the house. 180 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:06,640 - Ever see anybody else come and go? 181 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:11,840 - Yeah, quite a few people flying over. Italian. 182 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,120 - So flying over from Italy? - Yeah. 183 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:18,680 - The most unlikely of locations, I would suggest. 184 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,000 Mick and Gennaro remained friends, 185 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,000 until one day in May 2007. 186 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:26,840 - Everything kicked off. 187 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,920 - Police, coming upstairs! 188 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:32,400 - Armed police? - Yeah, and said, 189 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:34,560 "Is there any guns in the house?" 190 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,520 KEMP: Mick learned the reason for the raid from news reports. 191 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,040 - The Italian authorities say they're more used to tracing 192 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,400 their Mafia suspects t o the South of France or Spain 193 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:49,920 than to semi-detached houses in Lancashire. 194 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,120 - It seemed surreal. - It was so unlikely. 195 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,200 - It was so unlikely. It was just ... Couldn't make it up, 196 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:56,400 you just couldn't. 197 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,520 KEMP: Lancashire seems like a peculiar choice 198 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:08,760 for a Mafia mobster. 199 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:13,880 So why did he go there? 200 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,800 One of Britain's foremost authorities on the Mafia, 201 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:25,760 Professor Felia Allum, has tracked the case. 202 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:32,680 Felia, Preston is not the place that automatically comes to mind 203 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,080 when you mention the word ‘Mafia.' - No, and that's the point: 204 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,280 they're invisible there. We've got somebody 205 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:44,160 who's come to the UK, who's wanted for Mafia association in Italy. 206 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,440 - But that is just a specific crime of association, or being a member, 207 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,920 not an actual crime, which could be murder, drug... 208 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:55,400 - No, but in Italy, it is a crime. But the British authorities 209 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,960 don't have the same lengths, don't have that crime to look for. 210 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,000 So in the UK, you can hide quite easily. 211 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,360 - Hiding in plain sight. - Exactly. 212 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,760 KEMP: So who was Panzuto on the run from? 213 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,120 - There are various Mafias linked to different regions. 214 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:16,440 - In Italy? - In Italy. 215 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,880 Gennaro was part of the Camorra, up in Naples. 216 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,680 - What are they? - It's urban, based in the city. 217 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:29,080 They're clans, they're families that come together to intimidate, 218 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:32,800 to impose extortion, or to silence people. 219 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,520 KEMP: But was Gennaro Panzuto just hiding here, 220 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,200 or was he also conducting Mafia business in Britain? 221 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,880 - Once they're here, they're likely to be involved in things 222 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,000 which are illegal, it's all they know. 223 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,960 - They've grown up in that environment, it's what they do. 224 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,800 Where is he now? - I think he's now in Italy, 225 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,760 and I think he has done his time and has come out of protection. 226 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,680 KEMP: To get the full story, I need to speak to Panzuto myself. 227 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,240 I asked Felia to use her connections in Italy 228 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:19,160 to try and get a number for him. 229 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,400 And I managed to make contact. 230 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:27,480 I'm in Italy. 231 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,120 Gennaro Panzuto has agreed to talk to me. 232 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,640 KEMP: I'm investigating Britain's links to the Mafia. 233 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,080 For years, it has been assumed the UK had little connection 234 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,560 with the infamous Italian crime group. 235 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:02,400 But in 2007, a Mafia associate by the name of Gennaro Panzuto 236 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:04,920 was found living in Lancashire. 237 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:07,800 I've come to Naples to meet him. 238 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,720 This area is called La Torretta. It means ‘little tower'. 239 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:17,200 This is the area where Gennaro Panzuto grew up. 240 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:23,200 Naples is the birthplace of the Camorra, 241 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,400 a violent urban branch of the Mafia 242 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:31,080 divided into clans that control specific areas of the city. 243 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,200 Each clan has a boss and hundreds of soldiers. 244 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,400 Before we meet, Panzuto has warned me 245 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:46,000 that some clans in the city still want him dead. 246 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,160 Gennaro? - Hey. 247 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,400 - Ross Kemp. - Gennaro Panzuto. 248 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,080 KEMP: So we are meeting at a secret location. 249 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:59,040 Do I sit? Grazie. 250 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:06,720 Panzuto starts by telling me how he first came into contact 251 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:08,079 with the Camorra. 252 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,480 Gennaro was soon recruited by a Camorra clan 253 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,120 and sent to work for his new boss. 254 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,160 You personally went after the soldiers 255 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,120 of the boss of the other clan? - Yeah. 256 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:13,080 Gennaro used violence to rise quickly through the ranks. 257 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,280 But Naples was about to descend into chaos. 258 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:33,920 In the early 2000s, fighting broke out 259 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,880 between two of the largest Camorra clans 260 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,400 for control of drugs in the city. 261 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:44,880 It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in Naples' history. 262 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,400 Hundreds of people were killed. 263 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:57,640 (sirens wail) 264 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,640 - Hundreds of extra police have been sent to Naples. 265 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:02,960 REPORTER: There's more police per person 266 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:04,720 than any other city in Europe. 267 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,360 - Why do you choose to go to the United Kingdom? 268 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:37,120 So you've met these guys in the port. They're criminals. 269 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:38,960 - Sì. 270 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:43,520 - You've agreed to go to Britain. Where do you fly to? 271 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:45,720 - A Preston. - What did you think of Preston 272 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:46,920 when you got there? 273 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:53,920 Not looking over your shoulder, 274 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,560 waiting for somebody to come for you with a gun, right? 275 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:57,960 - Yeah, exactly. 276 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:01,880 In England, my life is normal. 277 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:07,160 KEMP: In Preston, Gennaro started to work on fraud scams 278 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,080 with his British criminal contacts. 279 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,080 What did you have to do? 280 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,320 From his hiding place in Preston, 281 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,240 Gennaro carried on playing a key role 282 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,560 in the Camorra fighting that raged on in Naples. 283 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,160 You're able to travel back and forth? 284 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,480 You're killing people when you come here? 285 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:18,800 Can you remember how many lives you've taken? 286 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,920 With the bodies mounting up in Naples, 287 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:52,080 the clan bosses needed somewhere away from police scrutiny 288 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,320 to meet and negotiate. 289 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,040 Guys from Naples, Camorra associates, 290 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,520 came across to England? 291 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,160 So according to Gennaro, 292 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,960 the gathering of Italians at the house in Preston 293 00:22:20,120 --> 00:22:24,520 Mick Bury told me about was actually a peace summit 294 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,360 for Mafia bosses. 295 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,760 Gennaro claims his Lancashire summit worked, 296 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,520 and the clans came to an uneasy truce. 297 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,000 But his time on the run was coming to an end. 298 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,200 In May 2007, Italian authorities finally tracked him down 299 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:07,360 to Lancashire... and extradited him back to Italy, 300 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,320 where he was convicted of crimes including murder, drug trafficking 301 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,480 and Mafia association. 302 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:21,280 You're now facing multiple life sentences. What do you decide to do? 303 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,720 After fourteen years inside, Gennaro decided to give evidence 304 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,000 against the Camorra in exchange for his freedom. 305 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,240 The terminology, I believe, is a 'pentito?' 306 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:48,080 Are you not in fear of your life every second of the day? 307 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,360 For over a year, Gennaro Panzuto travelled 308 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,600 from the UK to Italy, committing murder. 309 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,320 He even arranged a Mafia summit here. 310 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,280 Preston was the perfect place to hide out, 311 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:48,240 because no-one suspected it and nobody was looking. 312 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,400 But has Britain ever been more than just a hiding place for the Mafia? 313 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,800 Have they ever had a fully operational cell in the UK? 314 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,080 I comb old news articles, 315 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,680 looking for evidence of something bigger, 316 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:15,480 and I think I find it... this time in Scotland. 317 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,400 Aberdeen is probably the last place, you'd think, 318 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,840 that would be home to a Mafia organisation. 319 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,320 REPORTER: An Aberdeen businessman is accused 320 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,600 of being the godfather of a Mafia crime gang 321 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,320 and a catalogue of crimes, including racketeering, 322 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,840 extortion and violence. 323 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,320 KEMP: I'm on a mission to investigate 324 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,560 Britain's links with the Mafia. 325 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:52,040 So far I've uncovered a hitman and a murder. 326 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,080 Now I'm on the trail of something potentially much bigger, 327 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,280 in the northeast of Scotland... 328 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,360 ..a story that takes us back over 30 years. 329 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,480 In the 1980s, natural resources from the North Sea 330 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,240 were coming ashore in northeast Scotland. 331 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:28,840 The City of Aberdeen was the oil capital of Europe, 332 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:34,160 home to cash-rich executives eager to splash out on luxury meals. 333 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:35,960 So it wasn't a surprise 334 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:40,280 when a high-end Italian restaurant opened up in the early '90s. 335 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,120 So Norman, this was it, yeah? 336 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,040 - This was it: Pavarotti's. 337 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,560 - "A real taste of Italy.' - In more ways than one. 338 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,880 KEMP: At the time, Norman Silvester was investigating criminal activity 339 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,240 in the city. 340 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,800 - Pavarotti's was owned by a man called Antonio La Torre... 341 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:11,560 ..who had come from Mondragone in southern Italy. 342 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,440 - Outside Naples? - Outside Naples. 343 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,280 - What was he like? - Very personable, well-spoken. 344 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,360 Very much the ideal host. 345 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,480 But by the early 1990s, my contacts were telling me about this chap, 346 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:29,360 that there was more to him than met the eye. His family 347 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,840 were a Mafia clan in southern Italy involved in extortion 348 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,560 and intimidation. They ran protection rackets, 349 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,680 they were involved in drug-dealing, counterfeit money, robbery, 350 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,840 all manner of crimes, generating large sums for the family. 351 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,160 KEMP: Norman decided to investigate La Torre's life in Aberdeen. 352 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,640 This is where La Torre lived? - Yes. 353 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,720 - Above a butcher's? - Living above a butcher's shop. 354 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,600 Discreet, off the main street. 355 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:10,080 No luxury lifestyle. Just a normal, everyday family home. 356 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,320 - He is very, very normal, apart from one thing. 357 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,080 - He's a member of one of the biggest crime families in Italy. 358 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,840 KEMP: Over the next few years, La Torre expanded his business 359 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,840 and opened a second restaurant in Aberdeen. 360 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,600 In the 1980s and '90s, the quantity of drugs coming into Scotland 361 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,280 was growing exponentially. 362 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,640 - The use of hard drugs has reached epidemic proportions. 363 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,240 Unless action is taken, the crisis will be out of control. 364 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:48,400 - There was large amounts of cocaine being brought into Scotland by sea 365 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,280 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. 366 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,280 (ship horn sounds) 367 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,680 Antonio La Torre had already established a trade route 368 00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:02,160 from Naples for his own restaurants, all sorts of drugs being traded 369 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,680 as well, but there was never any proof 370 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,360 that he was directly involved. 371 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,600 KEMP: There was never any evidence that La Torre 372 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,440 was importing drugs into Aberdeen. 373 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:22,600 But in 2001, the authorities in Italy started an investigation 374 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,240 looking into La Torre's family. 375 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,120 - Italian authorities start tapping phone calls 376 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,880 coming in to clan members. 377 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,280 - (man speaking Italian) - We're hearing discussions 378 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,520 about criminal operations, but there were also phone calls 379 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,600 oming into Italy from Aberdeen. 380 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,360 KEMP: The voice they heard was that of Antonio La Torre. 381 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,440 - It's all on the phone, calling daily to his brother. 382 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,360 They always referred to ‘sausages' and ‘movement.' 383 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,240 - Either he was buying a lot of sausages 384 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,440 or he was moving a lot of cash. - Exactly, it was money. 385 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:04,480 He's using the cover of Aberdeen to launder £500,000 a month 386 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,640 through restaurants. - A month? 387 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,960 - Turning dirty money, drugs money, into good money. 388 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,520 KEMP: The wire taps revealed 389 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:17,760 that La Torre's Scottish restaurants were fronts for a Mafia operation. 390 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,440 - He was the head of one of the biggest crime clans 391 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,240 in the south of Italy. - He was the head 392 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,000 of a Camorra crime family. 393 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:37,480 In 2005, the Italian authorities issued an extradition request 394 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,080 to Scottish police. (sirens wailing) 395 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,720 - La Torre's aware the net's closing in. So he goes on the run. 396 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,280 Hides out in Inverness, Dundee, Stirling. 397 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,200 - How long was he actually on the run for? 398 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:55,680 - A period of several months, 399 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,840 but he's running out of places to hide. 400 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000 Eventually he's arrested in Aberdeen. 401 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,880 - Antonio La Torre is facing a 13-year jail sentence in Naples, 402 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,560 after being convicted there of a catalogue of crimes, 403 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,520 including racketeering, extortion and violence. 404 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,680 KEMP: Despite his convictions in Italy, 405 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,880 La Torre was never tried in the UK. 406 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,480 Aberdeen is probably the last place, you'd think, 407 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,080 that would be home to a Mafia organisation, 408 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,000 but that is what made it the perfect place 409 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:54,280 for Antonio La Torre to run an international criminal enterprise 410 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,600 that went undetected for years and years. 411 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,920 (bell tolls) 412 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,280 La Torre may have been the only man to be arrested, 413 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,400 but he must have had help here. 414 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,960 So there's little doubt that the Mafia had been operating 415 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:25,760 in the UK. But how long has this been going on for? 416 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,200 Steven. - Hey, Ross. 417 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,240 - Nice to see you. - Nice to meet you. 418 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,280 - How are you? Alright? - Good, yeah. Good. 419 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,960 KEMP: In the 1980s and '90s, 420 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:41,560 Stephen Gillen was a major player in London's gangland. 421 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:47,000 He served 12 years in prison for organised crime offences 422 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,360 alongside members of the Italian Mafia. 423 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,600 During your time inside, 424 00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:56,880 you actually met up with some of the Mafia. 425 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,600 - Yeah, I knew a lot of these guys. In Whitemoor, 426 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:04,280 I met Francesco Di Carlo. - He was the one that was implicated 427 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,360 in the death of God's Banker, Calvi, under Blackfriars Bridge. 428 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:16,520 In prison, Stephen saw firsthand their strength as a criminal entity. 429 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,120 - It's not just an organisation, it's a way of life. 430 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,240 They're referred into this life, 431 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,880 put forward for an initiation process. 432 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,560 They would put a picture of a saint in their hand. 433 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,480 They would set a light to this. 434 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,000 That's the saints burning in their hand. They'd swear 435 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,400 that they would die if they betrayed the codes 436 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:40,800 of La Cosa Nostra. 437 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,520 You have a hierarchical structure: 438 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,600 soldato, soldier, 439 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,120 capo, captains of a crew. 440 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,400 Then you'd go up. You've got consigliere, 441 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:05,480 which is advisor, underboss, boss. 442 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:16,440 KEMP: This hierarchy evolved over centuries, in Sicily and Italy. 443 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,920 Then, the structure for organised crime 444 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,159 was franchised by migrant communities 445 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,040 all over the world. 446 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,440 We're in Hatton Garden now. We go right here, do we? 447 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,840 - Yeah, go right here to Little Italy. 448 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,960 KEMP: By the 1930s, families from rural Italy 449 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,600 had settled in the slums of London. 450 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,679 - The person who rises up very, very prominently, 451 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,320 very brutally, is Charles ‘Darby' Sabini. 452 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,880 He really comes up the old-school way, 453 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,120 which is blood and guts and brutal street smarts. 454 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,920 He's soon into gambling in the neighbourhood, 455 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,520 aligned to influential Jewish and Italian bookmakers. 456 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,840 - So these bookmakers , they need to be protected, 457 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,240 so no-one robs them. Is that how it works? 458 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,200 - Yeah, but it's a bit contrived, Ross. 459 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,480 Let's be clear about it. Yeah. He's going to them and saying, 460 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:24,720 "You need protection, pretty much from us.' 461 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,080 He soon has 300 people under him, you know? 462 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,440 - 300?! - 300 people, right? 463 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,800 He even imports gunmen from Sicily. 464 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:39,640 ‘Darby' Sabini was the undisputed godfather in that era. 465 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:46,840 KEMP: But even criminal godfather Sabini wasn't strictly Mafia. 466 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,440 He hadn't sworn an oath to the brotherhood, 467 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,880 and his mother was Scottish. 468 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:58,920 To be a Mafia member, you have to be a full-blooded Italian. 469 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,360 So Sabini isn't Mafia. 470 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,400 When do the actual Mafia come to the UK? 471 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,560 - They actually infiltrated here in the 1960s, 472 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:12,400 but there's a very important distinction to make here: 473 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,960 this is not the Italian branch. This is the US Mafia, 474 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,680 the American Mob. 475 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,120 KEMP: The American Mob were largely descendants 476 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,800 of Sicilian Mafia, migrant crime families 477 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,240 who made fortunes selling bad alcohol 478 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,440 during Prohibition in the US, 479 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,320 and used it to build powerful empires. 480 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:45,360 By the 1960s, the infamous Five Families of New York 481 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,880 dominated organised crime in America. 482 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,160 So what were they doing in the UK? 483 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:01,160 Stephen is taking me to meet an extraordinary criminal contact 484 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,640 who encountered them at the time. 485 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,960 - Hey, Bobby. Hey, how you doing? 486 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:09,720 Bob, this is Ross. - My pleasure. 487 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:12,320 - Pleasure to meet you, Bobby. - Bobby McKew. 488 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,920 KEMP: Bobby soon reveals the American Mob's operation 489 00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,560 in London. So Bobby, part of your job: 490 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,280 take the Mafia out for dinner. - It's about business. 491 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,040 KEMP: I'm investigating links between Britain 492 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,160 and the Italian Mafia. 493 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,400 So far, I've uncovered Mafia operations in Aberdeen, 494 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,560 Preston and London. 495 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,880 Now I'm trying to find out why, and how, 496 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:58,800 the powerful American-Italian Mafia came to Britain in the 1960s. 497 00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:02,000 - My pleasure. - Pleasure to meet you, Bobby. 498 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:03,720 - Bobby. Bobby McKew. 499 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,600 KEMP: Bobby McKew is 99 years old, 500 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,360 and was part of London's criminal underworld at the time. 501 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,680 Tell me who these people are? - That's the Krays. 502 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,320 I liked Ronnie. He was the gay one. I liked him. 503 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:29,560 I wasn't really keen on Reggie terribly, but, in the end 504 00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:31,560 you have to put both of them together. 505 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,160 That's certainly Billy. 506 00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,640 - Billy Hill, he was the real godfather of London. 507 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:41,920 - I'd say you're right. 508 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,240 - How did you get involved with him? - I did a few things for him. 509 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,040 He liked me. - Yeah? 510 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,840 Bobby's boss, Billy Hill, ran London's criminal empire. 511 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,200 When gambling was legalised in Britain in 1960, 512 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,800 it presented Hill and his associates 513 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,560 with a unique opportunity. 514 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:14,080 - Suddenly they were able to open betting offices, casinos everywhere. 515 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:17,920 Overnight, Britain became the biggest gambling nation. 516 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,560 INTERVIEWER: What sort of people are you hoping to attract here? 517 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:25,160 - Membership is open to responsible persons 518 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,920 from all walks of life. 519 00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,080 - If you know how, you can cheat. 520 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:33,640 - Do you have any idea how much money was being made? 521 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:38,000 - Well, I was told they had about £22m on one casino. 522 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,680 KEMP: £22m in the early 1960s 523 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:47,480 was the kind of money which made even the American Mafia take notice. 524 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,960 Having been kicked out of their Havana casinos 525 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,360 by Fidel Castro's 1959 Cuban revolution, 526 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,200 they turned their attention to London. 527 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,920 They've lost Havana, because there's been a revolution. 528 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,040 - Yes. - And all of a sudden, 529 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,000 gambling in the UK is now legal. 530 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,160 - A lot of Mafia people came over. 531 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:10,880 They wanted to come in and have a casino. 532 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,920 Angelo Bruno, he was very big. 533 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,680 - He was? This guy? - Angelo Bruno. 534 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,920 He would have been in the casino here, would have been his money. 535 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,120 Big boss. - Carlo Gambino? 536 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:25,680 Of the Gambino Family? - Yes. 537 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,120 - Yeah, he was the head of it. - He was the main man. 538 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,320 - And then of course, a really, really big name: 539 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:34,040 Meyer Lansky. 540 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,480 - He was the money man for all the Mafia. 541 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,240 - You met John Gotti, people like that? 542 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,000 - I was introduced to John Gotti. 543 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:48,080 - These are big members of the Five Families. 544 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:53,160 - These were the real architects of organised crime in the States. 545 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,480 - Billy didn't want them coming in at all, 546 00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:01,400 because he was getting all the money. 547 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,640 - Right. - Nobody wanted the Mafia. 548 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,840 They didn't want the Americans in here. 549 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,240 But you weren't rude to them, I'll tell you that for nothing. 550 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,520 - Certainly not. - When they used to come over, 551 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,640 Billy, he'd tell me, "Buy 'em dinner 552 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,520 when they come in," which I did. - So Bobby, part of your job 553 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:20,960 working for Billy: 554 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,280 take the Mafia out for dinner. - Yes. 555 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,800 - Ultimately, it's about business. It's about money. 556 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,120 - It's about business, and about ... exactly. 557 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,960 KEMP: In the 1960s, the American Mafia 558 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:39,040 took controlling stakes in a number of London casinos, 559 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:44,000 including The Old Colony Sports Club in Mayfair. 560 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,400 It was the beginning of The Mob's relationship with Britain. 561 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,720 Not only was this country a place for the Mafia to hide and operate, 562 00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,400 I'm now uncovering evidence of a much deeper relationship 563 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,200 with the Mob. So how far did it extend... 564 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,680 ..and how deep did it go? 565 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,880 If I really want to find out how much influence the Mafia's had 566 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:13,480 in the UK, where should I go? 567 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,720 - If you really want to know the story 568 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,840 of all these heavyweight guys, there's only one place you to go, 569 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,960 and that's to the US. 570 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:25,240 This is where the real story is. 571 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,400 Thank you. - My pleasure. 572 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:41,520 - So the American Mafia was involved in casino money, 573 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,760 in London, in the '60s. And there's a saying: 574 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,680 'If you want to find out the truth, then follow the money.' 575 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,640 On the Mafia and Britain next time: 576 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,640 I'm in Philadelphia, where a Mob member reveals 577 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:03,080 their relationship with two notorious British gangsters. 578 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:04,720 - Ronnie and Reggie. - The Krays? 579 00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,600 - The Krays, yeah. 580 00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,080 We didn't know how crazy The Krays were. 581 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:12,440 A ton of heat came down. KEMP: Miami sees 582 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:18,000 a new generation of Mafia establish an international crime syndicate. 583 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:23,360 Colombians, Cubans, Mob guys, making lots and lots of money. 584 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,160 What were the police doing? - A lot of them were corrupt. 585 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,520 There was a crew of cops that were killing people. 586 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,520 KEMP: And I uncover the role a British Mafia cell played 587 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:38,560 exporting drugs into America. 588 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:42,960 The Coana Family have a representative in London. 589 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,000 Where in London, do you know? - Woking. 590 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,040 - Woking, Surrey? - Yeah. Surrey, yes. 591 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:48,480 - Are you kidding me? - No. 592 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:53,800 (grave music) 593 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,080 Subtitles by Sky Access Services 49366

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