The parliamentary anti-mafia commission on Wednesday ordered police to seize the membership lists, from 1990 to today, of freemasons belonging to lodges in Calabria and Sicily.
The lodges involved are: Grande Oriente d'Italia; Gran Loggia Regolare d'Italia; Serenissima Gran Loggia d'Italia; Gran Loggia d'Italia degli Antichi Liberi Accettati Muratori.
There have been a few recent cases in which some
masons have been linked to mafia activities in the two southern
Italian regions. The freemasons' lodges have denied having
anything to do with Italy's mafias: Cosa Nostra in Sicily,
'Ndrangheta in Calabria and the Camorra in Campania.
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