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CONTINUITY ANNOUNCER:
We now go over to London
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for the latest national
and international news.
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REPORTER: Police
made a bizarre discovery.
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Hanging under Blackfriars Bridge
was the body of a man.
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The body was hanging
from scaffolding
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underneath the bridge in London.
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ROSS KEMP: On the 18th of June 1982,
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a corpse was found
under this bridge in central London.
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(bell clangs)
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REPORTER: He'd been dead
between two and six hours.
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(bell)
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- Five bricks were found
in his clothes...
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..plus £7,300 in assorted currency.
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KEMP: Details
made the death suspicious.
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REPORTER: The injuries
suggest that he'd been killed
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some time earlier... his body
brought here...
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..and left hanging
to fool the authorities.
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REPORTER: There is now
growing suspicion...
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..that he was murdered.
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(bell)
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KEMP: The body was identified...
as Roberto Calvi.
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REPORTER: The head
of a large, private Italian bank.
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He was known as ‘God's Banker.'
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REPORTER: Signor Calvi's
widow and son
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maintain that he was murdered
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in a plot
which implicates the Italian Mafia.
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(bell)
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REPORTER: It involved the Mafia.
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REPORTER: ..the Mafia.
(bell)
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- It was almost...
the perfect murder.
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- Up until the death
of Roberto Calvi, it was assumed
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that the Mafia had no business here.
But with his murder,
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it seemed that they were here...
and able to operate with impunity.
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So just how far did the Mafia's
tentacles extend throughout Britain?
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I'm on a journey to find out.
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(grave music)
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KEMP: The Mafia is one of
the oldest organised crime groups
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in the world, dating back
to the 19th century in rural Italy.
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Over two centuries, its influence
has spread across the globe.
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- The rackets
have become too widespread,
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too well-organised, and too rich.
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KEMP: Smuggling, protection rackets,
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robbery, drugs and murder.
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- This is
the eighth Camorra killing in Naples
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in six days.
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KEMP: Bound by rules and rituals,
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and led by charismatic characters,
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the Mafia has inspired
countless books,
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movies and television series.
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But are they operating in the UK?
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And could they have killed,
in plain sight, in central London?
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- Nice to meet you.
KEMP: Peter Bleksley
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was a Metropolitan Police detective
in 1982.
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- Peter, can you remember
the morning
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that Roberto Calvi's body was found
hanging underneath this bridge?
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- As if it was yesterday.
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For a slightly overweight,
not very physically able
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62-year-old man
to clamber over a bridge,
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navigate some pretty complex
and dangerous scaffolding,
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almost like an acrobat,
to then tie a rope to it,
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the other end around his neck,
weigh himself down with bricks
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and jump into the River Thames...
what?
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- So you think murder first?
- Yeah.
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- Anything else on the body?
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- About $14,000 in mixed currency,
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lira and Swiss francs and suchlike.
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He had a false passport on him.
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Roberto Calvi had been
chairman of a bank,
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and in that bank had been
a lot of money
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belonging to the Vatican. That's why
Calvi was known as ‘God's Banker.'
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And there were some other people
had a very keen interest in him.
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- What other people?
- The Mafia.
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Roberto Calvi was part of
a masonic brotherhood called P2,
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who were linked to the Mafia,
otherwise known as the Black Friars.
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And the location,
Blackfriars Bridge.
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- There was some symbolism
to what had happened here?
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- Yes.
If you're going to kill someone,
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and you're going to send out
messages, this killing had plenty.
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- This is all adding up
to an example killing.
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It's in a very, very public place.
- In London.
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The Mafia were clearly saying,
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"You can never rest easy,
you can never sleep soundly.
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Because wherever you go,
we'll find you."
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KEMP: The murder of God's Banker
under Blackfriars Bridge
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is still officially unsolved.
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If the Mafia did kill him,
who carried out the hit, and why?
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Thank you.
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Professor John Dickie
has tried to unravel the case.
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So John, why would the Mafia
want Calvi out of the way?
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- Well, Calvi was already
deep, deep in trouble.
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His bank was spiralling,
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he'd been prosecuted
for various banking offences,
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and he's becoming more and more
desperate for money
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to plug the holes in his empire.
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And it's at this point, we think
he gets in touch
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with the Sicilian Mafia,
and that this is where
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things really start
to get dangerous.
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- Because Calvi
starts to lose Mafia money?
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- He starts to lose Mafia money.
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- Very, very good reasons
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for getting rid of him.
- Absolutely.
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- So what is he doing in London?
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- It may well be
that he was looking around
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for more money to try
and save his banks,
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using his contacts in the City.
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KEMP: Calvi thought London
was a safe place to go,
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but John's research has uncovered
dangerous Mafia operatives
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who were in Britain at the time.
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- There was a guy
called Francesco Di Carlo in London,
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who was a member
of the Sicilian Mafia.
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‘Frankie The Strangler',
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they called him.
- So Di Carlo is suspected
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of being the murderer?
- Yeah. But he says:
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"Actually, they did ask me to do it.
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But by the time I got back in touch
with them, they said,
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'Actually,
we've already sorted it out.
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We've given it to members
of the Neapolitan Mafia to do.'"
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- Right.
- The Neapolitans that Di Carlo says
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did it, one of them dies
six months or so later
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in a car bomb in Rome.
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- Yeah.
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- And then the other one,
Sergio Vaccari,
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gets stabbed to death in London.
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He's stabbed in the mouth,
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which some people speculate
is some kind of Mafia signal
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for keeping your mouth...
- Shut.
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And bricks are found
on his body.
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- Bricks?
- Rather in the same style as Calvi.
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- So John, potentially
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Calvi and the man that was suspected
of murdering him
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were both killed here
on British soil?
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- Yeah. For me,
that's the most likely explanation.
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KEMP: No-one
was ever brought to justice
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for these vicious murders.
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Whoever killed Calvi
successfully covered their tracks.
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So was the murder of God's Banker
a one-off,
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or were there other active
Mafia cells operating in the UK?
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I start looking for more evidence.
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There are very few news articles
that refer to the Mafia in the UK
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over the last 50 years.
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But one report from 2007
catches my eye.
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- He's wanted by Italian police
in connection with four murders.
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But after a year on the run,
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officers have finally
caught up with Gennaro Panzuto.
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He wasn't found in Palermo,
but near Preston.
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KEMP: Preston is a world away
from a Mob war in Naples.
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This seems too far-fetched
to be true,
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so I've headed north
to find out more.
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- Hello there. Ross.
Pleased to meet you.
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In 2006, Mick Bury was living
in a caravan park
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when a new neighbour arrived.
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His name was Gennaro Panzuto.
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- Coming in?
- Yeah, love to.
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How did you
first meet Gennaro Panzuto?
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- What happened was, the kids
come knocking on my door:
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"See, Mick? See, Mick?
The Italian guy's
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just reversed into your car."
I went, "Y'what?"
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So I come blazing over,
banging on t'door:
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"Can't y'see?"
- "What've you done to my car?"
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He give me two hundred quid.
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A bit extra?
- A bit extra, yeah. I thought:
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"Oh, this is alright."
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He said, "Don't go
talking about it."
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- Didn't want the police involved?
- No, definitely.
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- You've got pictures of him.
- Yeah.
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- Good-looking lad, ain't he?
- Very smart, very smart.
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- He must have stood out?
- Well, he did.
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I mean, he was an Italian, smooth,
charmed,
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with a bit of swagger.
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- Not the guy you'd normally find
in this location.
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- Exactly, exactly.
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But he mixed with everybody.
- He was very friendly?
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- Yeah, very. Used to buy a round,
a pub round of drinks.
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Then he'd have barbecues.
It was good, everybody liked him.
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KEMP: Panzuto only stayed
at the caravan park a few months.
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He soon upgraded
to a three-bedroom house
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on the outskirts of Preston.
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So this is the house?
- Yeah, this is the house.
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- Ever see anybody else come and go?
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- Yeah, quite a few people
flying over. Italian.
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- So flying over from Italy?
- Yeah.
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- The most unlikely of locations,
I would suggest.
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Mick and Gennaro remained friends,
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until one day in May 2007.
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- Everything kicked off.
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- Police, coming upstairs!
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- Armed police?
- Yeah, and said,
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"Is there any guns in the house?"
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KEMP: Mick learned the reason
for the raid from news reports.
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- The Italian authorities say
they're more used to tracing
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their Mafia suspects t
o the South of France or Spain
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than to semi-detached houses
in Lancashire.
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- It seemed surreal.
- It was so unlikely.
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- It was so unlikely.
It was just ... Couldn't make it up,
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you just couldn't.
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KEMP: Lancashire seems like
a peculiar choice
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for a Mafia mobster.
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So why did he go there?
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One of Britain's
foremost authorities on the Mafia,
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Professor Felia Allum,
has tracked the case.
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Felia, Preston is not the place
that automatically comes to mind
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when you mention the word ‘Mafia.'
- No, and that's the point:
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they're invisible there.
We've got somebody
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who's come to the UK, who's wanted
for Mafia association in Italy.
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- But that is just a specific crime
of association, or being a member,
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not an actual crime, which could be
murder, drug...
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- No, but in Italy, it is a crime.
But the British authorities
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don't have the same lengths,
don't have that crime to look for.
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So in the UK, you can hide
quite easily.
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- Hiding in plain sight.
- Exactly.
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KEMP: So who was Panzuto
on the run from?
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- There are various Mafias
linked to different regions.
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- In Italy?
- In Italy.
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Gennaro was part of the Camorra,
up in Naples.
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- What are they?
- It's urban, based in the city.
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They're clans, they're families
that come together to intimidate,
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to impose extortion,
or to silence people.
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KEMP: But was Gennaro Panzuto
just hiding here,
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or was he also conducting
Mafia business in Britain?
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- Once they're here, they're likely
to be involved in things
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which are illegal,
it's all they know.
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- They've grown up in that
environment, it's what they do.
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Where is he now?
- I think he's now in Italy,
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and I think he has done his time
and has come out of protection.
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KEMP: To get the full story,
I need to speak to Panzuto myself.
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I asked Felia
to use her connections in Italy
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to try and get a number for him.
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And I managed to make contact.
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I'm in Italy.
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Gennaro Panzuto
has agreed to talk to me.
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KEMP: I'm investigating
Britain's links to the Mafia.
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For years, it has been assumed
the UK had little connection
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with the infamous
Italian crime group.
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But in 2007, a Mafia associate
by the name of Gennaro Panzuto
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was found living in Lancashire.
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I've come to Naples to meet him.
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This area is called La Torretta.
It means ‘little tower'.
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This is the area
where Gennaro Panzuto grew up.
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Naples is the birthplace
of the Camorra,
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a violent urban branch
of the Mafia
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divided into clans that control
specific areas of the city.
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Each clan has a boss
and hundreds of soldiers.
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Before we meet,
Panzuto has warned me
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that some clans in the city
still want him dead.
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Gennaro?
- Hey.
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- Ross Kemp.
- Gennaro Panzuto.
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KEMP: So we are meeting
at a secret location.
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Do I sit? Grazie.
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Panzuto starts by telling me
how he first came into contact
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with the Camorra.
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Gennaro was soon recruited
by a Camorra clan
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and sent to work
for his new boss.
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You personally
went after the soldiers
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of the boss of the other clan?
- Yeah.
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Gennaro used violence
to rise quickly through the ranks.
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But Naples
was about to descend into chaos.
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In the early 2000s,
fighting broke out
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between two of the largest
Camorra clans
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for control of drugs in the city.
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It was one of the bloodiest
conflicts in Naples' history.
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Hundreds of people were killed.
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(sirens wail)
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- Hundreds of extra police
have been sent to Naples.
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REPORTER: There's more police
per person
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than any other city in Europe.
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- Why do you choose
to go to the United Kingdom?
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So you've met these guys
in the port. They're criminals.
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- Sì.
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- You've agreed to go to Britain.
Where do you fly to?
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- A Preston.
- What did you think of Preston
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when you got there?
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Not looking over your shoulder,
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waiting for somebody to come for you
with a gun, right?
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- Yeah, exactly.
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In England, my life is normal.
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KEMP: In Preston, Gennaro
started to work on fraud scams
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with his British criminal contacts.
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What did you have to do?
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From his hiding place in Preston,
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Gennaro carried on
playing a key role
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in the Camorra fighting
that raged on in Naples.
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You're able to travel
back and forth?
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You're killing people
when you come here?
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Can you remember
how many lives you've taken?
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With the bodies mounting up
in Naples,
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the clan bosses needed somewhere
away from police scrutiny
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to meet and negotiate.
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Guys from Naples,
Camorra associates,
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came across to England?
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So according to Gennaro,
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the gathering of Italians
at the house in Preston
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Mick Bury told me about
was actually a peace summit
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for Mafia bosses.
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Gennaro claims
his Lancashire summit worked,
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and the clans came to
an uneasy truce.
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But his time on the run
was coming to an end.
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In May 2007, Italian authorities
finally tracked him down
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to Lancashire... and extradited him
back to Italy,
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where he was convicted of crimes
including murder, drug trafficking
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and Mafia association.
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You're now facing multiple life
sentences. What do you decide to do?
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After fourteen years inside,
Gennaro decided to give evidence
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against the Camorra
in exchange for his freedom.
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The terminology, I believe,
is a 'pentito?'
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Are you not in fear of your life
every second of the day?
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For over a year,
Gennaro Panzuto travelled
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from the UK to Italy,
committing murder.
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He even arranged a Mafia summit
here.
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Preston was the perfect place
to hide out,
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because no-one suspected it
and nobody was looking.
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But has Britain ever been more than
just a hiding place for the Mafia?
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Have they ever had
a fully operational cell in the UK?
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I comb old news articles,
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looking for evidence
of something bigger,
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and I think I find it...
this time in Scotland.
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Aberdeen is probably the last place,
you'd think,
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that would be home
to a Mafia organisation.
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REPORTER: An Aberdeen businessman
is accused
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of being the godfather
of a Mafia crime gang
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and a catalogue of crimes,
including racketeering,
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extortion and violence.
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KEMP: I'm on a mission
to investigate
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Britain's links with the Mafia.
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So far I've uncovered a hitman
and a murder.
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Now I'm on the trail of something
potentially much bigger,
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in the northeast of Scotland...
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..a story that takes us back
over 30 years.
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In the 1980s,
natural resources from the North Sea
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were coming ashore
in northeast Scotland.
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The City of Aberdeen
was the oil capital of Europe,
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home to cash-rich executives
eager to splash out on luxury meals.
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So it wasn't a surprise
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when a high-end Italian restaurant
opened up in the early '90s.
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So Norman, this was it, yeah?
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- This was it: Pavarotti's.
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- "A real taste of Italy.'
- In more ways than one.
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KEMP: At the time, Norman Silvester
was investigating criminal activity
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in the city.
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- Pavarotti's was owned by a man
called Antonio La Torre...
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..who had come from Mondragone
in southern Italy.
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- Outside Naples?
- Outside Naples.
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- What was he like?
- Very personable, well-spoken.
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Very much the ideal host.
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But by the early 1990s, my contacts
were telling me about this chap,
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that there was more to him
than met the eye. His family
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were a Mafia clan in southern Italy
involved in extortion
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and intimidation.
They ran protection rackets,
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they were involved in drug-dealing,
counterfeit money, robbery,
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all manner of crimes, generating
large sums for the family.
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KEMP: Norman decided to investigate
La Torre's life in Aberdeen.
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This is where La Torre lived?
- Yes.
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- Above a butcher's?
- Living above a butcher's shop.
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Discreet, off the main street.
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No luxury lifestyle. Just a normal,
everyday family home.
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- He is very, very normal,
apart from one thing.
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- He's a member of one of
the biggest crime families in Italy.
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KEMP: Over the next few years,
La Torre expanded his business
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and opened a second restaurant
in Aberdeen.
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In the 1980s and '90s, the quantity
of drugs coming into Scotland
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was growing exponentially.
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- The use of hard drugs
has reached epidemic proportions.
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Unless action is taken, the crisis
will be out of control.
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- There was large amounts of cocaine
being brought into Scotland by sea
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in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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(ship horn sounds)
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Antonio La Torre had already
established a trade route
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from Naples for his own restaurants,
all sorts of drugs being traded
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as well, but there was never
any proof
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that he was directly involved.
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KEMP: There was never any evidence
that La Torre
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was importing drugs into Aberdeen.
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But in 2001, the authorities
in Italy started an investigation
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looking into La Torre's family.
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- Italian authorities
start tapping phone calls
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coming in to clan members.
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- (man speaking Italian)
- We're hearing discussions
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about criminal operations,
but there were also phone calls
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oming into Italy from Aberdeen.
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KEMP: The voice they heard
was that of Antonio La Torre.
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- It's all on the phone,
calling daily to his brother.
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They always referred to ‘sausages'
and ‘movement.'
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- Either he was buying
a lot of sausages
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or he was moving a lot of cash.
- Exactly, it was money.
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He's using the cover of Aberdeen
to launder £500,000 a month
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through restaurants.
- A month?
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- Turning dirty money, drugs money,
into good money.
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KEMP: The wire taps revealed
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that La Torre's Scottish restaurants
were fronts for a Mafia operation.
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- He was the head of one of
the biggest crime clans
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in the south of Italy.
- He was the head
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of a Camorra crime family.
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In 2005, the Italian authorities
issued an extradition request
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to Scottish police.
(sirens wailing)
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- La Torre's aware the net's
closing in. So he goes on the run.
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Hides out in Inverness,
Dundee, Stirling.
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- How long was he actually
on the run for?
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- A period of several months,
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but he's running out of places
to hide.
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Eventually he's arrested
in Aberdeen.
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- Antonio La Torre is facing
a 13-year jail sentence in Naples,
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after being convicted there
of a catalogue of crimes,
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including racketeering, extortion
and violence.
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00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,680
KEMP: Despite his convictions
in Italy,
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La Torre was never tried in the UK.
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Aberdeen is probably
the last place, you'd think,
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that would be home
to a Mafia organisation,
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but that is what made it
the perfect place
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for Antonio La Torre to run
an international criminal enterprise
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that went undetected
for years and years.
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(bell tolls)
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La Torre may have been the only man
to be arrested,
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but he must have had help here.
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So there's little doubt
that the Mafia had been operating
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in the UK. But how long
has this been going on for?
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Steven.
- Hey, Ross.
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- Nice to see you.
- Nice to meet you.
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- How are you? Alright?
- Good, yeah. Good.
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KEMP: In the 1980s and '90s,
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Stephen Gillen was a major player
in London's gangland.
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He served 12 years in prison
for organised crime offences
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alongside members
of the Italian Mafia.
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During your time inside,
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you actually met up
with some of the Mafia.
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00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,600
- Yeah, I knew a lot of these guys.
In Whitemoor,
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I met Francesco Di Carlo.
- He was the one that was implicated
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in the death of God's Banker,
Calvi, under Blackfriars Bridge.
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In prison, Stephen saw firsthand
their strength as a criminal entity.
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- It's not just an organisation,
it's a way of life.
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They're referred into this life,
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put forward
for an initiation process.
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They would put a picture
of a saint in their hand.
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They would set a light to this.
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That's the saints
burning in their hand. They'd swear
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that they would die
if they betrayed the codes
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of La Cosa Nostra.
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You have a hierarchical structure:
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soldato, soldier,
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capo, captains of a crew.
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Then you'd go up.
You've got consigliere,
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which is advisor,
underboss, boss.
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00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:16,440
KEMP: This hierarchy evolved
over centuries, in Sicily and Italy.
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00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,920
Then,
the structure for organised crime
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was franchised
by migrant communities
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all over the world.
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00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,440
We're in Hatton Garden now.
We go right here, do we?
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00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,840
- Yeah, go right here
to Little Italy.
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00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,960
KEMP: By the 1930s,
families from rural Italy
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had settled in the slums of London.
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00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,679
- The person who rises up
very, very prominently,
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very brutally,
is Charles ‘Darby' Sabini.
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He really comes up
the old-school way,
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which is blood and guts
and brutal street smarts.
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He's soon into gambling
in the neighbourhood,
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aligned to influential
Jewish and Italian bookmakers.
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00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,840
- So these bookmakers
, they need to be protected,
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00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,240
so no-one robs them.
Is that how it works?
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00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,200
- Yeah, but it's a bit contrived,
Ross.
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00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,480
Let's be clear about it. Yeah.
He's going to them and saying,
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"You need protection,
pretty much from us.'
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He soon has 300 people under him,
you know?
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00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,440
- 300?!
- 300 people, right?
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He even imports gunmen from Sicily.
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‘Darby' Sabini was the undisputed
godfather in that era.
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KEMP: But even criminal godfather
Sabini wasn't strictly Mafia.
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He hadn't sworn an oath
to the brotherhood,
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and his mother was Scottish.
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00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:58,920
To be a Mafia member, you have to be
a full-blooded Italian.
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00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,360
So Sabini isn't Mafia.
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00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,400
When do the actual Mafia
come to the UK?
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00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:09,560
- They actually infiltrated here
in the 1960s,
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00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:12,400
but there's a very important
distinction to make here:
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this is not the Italian branch.
This is the US Mafia,
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the American Mob.
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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
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