For a week, many Italian media have seized on an incredible affair which links the padel to the Italian Mafia.

Police uncovered a money laundering scheme involving the Italian Mafia in Calabria, the 'Ndrangheta, which can reach 700 euros. And again according to those concerned via a recorded conversation, it would be a “infinite business” according to the perpetrators of this coup.

Prevent the mafia from expanding into the padel Italian

In Lombardy, there are 900 ski runs padel including 30% of the tracks built in 2022 alone. Milan even has a club with 18 tracks of padel (the Country Sports Village).

And inevitably, who says business, sometimes says mafia in Italy. The police are trying to prevent this mafia business in the padel takes on uncontrollable proportions. The proof with the intervention of the police and the seizure of 8 tracks of padel built without the necessary authorizations and paid according to her with money laundered from illegal practices.

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Mafia connections to public spaces

What is perhaps even more surprising in Italy is not the mafia which is still very present in Italy and in business, but above all the chosen site. In fact, the tracks were built in the municipal center of Sant'Ambrogio alla Barona, in Milan itself.

Mafia, town hall and padel… what exactly happened to make the mafia go so far as to establish itself in structures that belong to the public domain?

The police are surprised to the mafia's alarming capacity to extend the illegal system to more and more numerous and diversified sectors of activity, going so far as to interfere in the management of public spaces ».

Prosecutors Alessandra Dolce et Silvia Bonardi accuse the businessman Marco Molluso “issue and use invoices for non-existent transactions and car laundering” and highlight his links with 'Ndrangheta circles as he is the nephew of mafia bosses Giosofatto and Francesco.

The Milanese police explain that “the investment of 700 000 euros in these tracks padel comes from money obtained from money laundering linked to a series of false invoices for work never carried out by Molluso companies”.

A story that, for sure, is only in its infancy. On to the next episode.

Sources: The news sites El debate, Il fatto quotidiano, Ansa, Tempo Stretto, Il Giorno, Secolo Di Italia

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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