Year-End Review For Mob-Busting Agency

In 2013 Italy’s top mob-busting agency — the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department (DIA) — busted 160 mobsters, and “seized goods and assets worth 1.93 billion euros [$2.65 billion] and confiscated 2.7 billion euros [$3.7 billion] in ill-gotten gains” from the country’s four principal Mafia groups as reported by ANSA:  “set up in 1991, the DIA is made up of law enforcement from various agencies including the State police, the Carabinieri paramilitary police, tax police, and the National Forestry Department.”

Hip hip hooray for the DIA!