The defendants had been charged with crimes that include drug and arms trafficking, extortion and mafia association, a term in Italy’s penal code for members of organized crime groups. Others were charged with acting in complicity with the ’ndrangheta without actually being a member.
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00:00 An Italian court convicted more than 200 people on Monday on charges related to their membership
00:05 of or complicity with the Indrangheta organized crime syndicate.
00:11 Together they face a combined 2,100 years in prison.
00:16 Of the almost 340 people accused, 131 were acquitted.
00:22 The judges took an hour and 40 minutes to read out the verdicts in a room specially
00:27 prepared for this trial.
00:29 The defendants had been charged with crimes including drug and arms trafficking, extortion
00:35 and mafia association.
00:37 Among those convicted were at least two high-ranking members of the Indrangheta, one of the world's
00:43 most powerful and extensive drug trafficking organizations.
00:47 The sentences culminate an investigation that began in 2016 against the Mancuso family,
00:54 one of the most important clans of the Indrangheta.
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