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Targets Leading Figures of Transnational Criminal Organizations Department of the Treasury today took action against three transnational criminal organizations (TCO) Today’s designations include four members of the Camorra one of Europe's largest criminal organizations; the Inagawa-kai the third-largest clan within the Japanese Yakuza criminal network; and an individual providing support to a key member of the Brothers’ Circle a large multi-ethnic Eurasian criminal network These designations were imposed under Treasury’s authority targeting transnational organized crime and the Brothers’ Circle along with the Zetas as significant TCOs in the Annex to Executive Order 13581 (Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations) on July 24 and charged the Treasury Department with pursuing additional sanctions against its members and supporters to undermine and interdict their global criminal operations Today’s action freezes any assets these persons may have within the jurisdiction of the United States and generally prohibits any transactions with them by U.S “The individuals designated today are key members of criminal organizations who engage in serious crimes around the world,” said David S Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence “Treasury will continue to target additional members and supporters of these groups as we systematically expose their criminal operations and protect the U.S financial system from their illicit activity The Camorra operates internationally and is involved in serious criminal activity In 2012 Italian law enforcement conducted multiple operations to seize Camorra assets including 800 million euro seized from the Casalesi clan in July Treasury has identified five individuals affiliated with the Camorra under E.O including their most prominent leaders Michele Zagaria and Antonio Iovine In August 2012 the Treasury Department designated Michele Zagaria who is serving a life sentence for conspiracy The Camorra members designated today are all members of the immediate family of Michele Zagaria: his brothers Pasquale Zagaria Each of these four individuals is designated for acting for or on behalf of All the brothers have led the Caselasi clan at one point while other siblings were serving jail sentences All are involved in the family’s criminal enterprises This network has been involved in extortion reputedly the world’s largest criminal organization with over 70,000 members is involved in serious criminal activities The Treasury Department designated the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Sumiyoshi-kai is the third-largest of the Yakuza organizations and the Department of the Treasury is targeting it today for acting for or on behalf of the Yakuza The top three clans account for approximately 72.4 percent of the Yakuza membership Treasury has identified four individuals and two entities affiliated with the Yakuza under E.O including their most prominent leaders Kenichi Shinoda and Shigeo Nishiguchi Today’s action also imposes sanctions on Jiro Kiyota as well as the Inagawa-kai’s second-in-command for acting for or on behalf of the Inagawa-kai Kiyota and Uchibori play key roles in directing the syndicate’s policies and settling disputes with other Yakuza syndicates Under the leadership of Kiyota and Uchibori the Inagawa-kai has become increasingly aligned with the Yamaguchi-gumi The Brothers’ Circle is a multi-ethnic criminal group composed of leaders and senior members of several Eurasian criminal groups largely based in countries of the former Soviet Union but extending to Europe Treasury has identified 15 individuals affiliated with the Brothers’ Circle and their associates under E.O including their most prominent members Gafur Rakhimov and Zakhariy Kalashov The Brothers’ Circle serves as a coordinating body for several national level criminal networks mediating disputes between the individual criminal networks and directing global criminal activity the Treasury Department designated Zakhariy Kalashov a key member of the Brothers’ Circle and a prominent Eurasian organized crime figure with extensive connections to criminal groups in Russia and countries throughout Eurasia His criminal activities include money laundering serving a nine year sentence for money laundering in Spain is a key part of Zakhariy Kalashov’s network Kalashov communicates with Kalashova to pass messages on his behalf to his organization Japan            DOB: 1940                A search for dozens more was still under way said they arrested Franco Letizia shortly after midnight in a home in a nearby town Letizia is accused of running extortion rackets and is the suspected chief of the Bidognetti crime clan took over the reins of the clan after the capture in January of Giuseppe Setola who was considered the mastermind of a bloody operation last year to eliminate rivals and punish businessmen who refused to pay protection money to the Camorra Arrested along with Letizia were two suspected mobsters accused of helping him elude capture who is on Italy's list of 100 most dangerous fugitives Caserta police said they had pinpointed his hideout in San Cipriano d'Aversa after several months of intercepting phone conversations police chief Vittorio Pisani said officers from several police forces had delivered a major blow to the Camorra's Amato-Pagano clan which was believed to have emerged victorious in a bloody turf war in the early 1990s with the Di Lauro crime family The Amato-Pagano clan was currently "the most powerful clan in the city" Carabinieri paramilitary police said that by early afternoon at least 67 suspects had been arrested in Naples and the surrounding countryside in raids against the Amato-Pagano clan Carabinieri spokesman Angelo Mazzagatti said officers from several police forces were still looking for about three dozen other suspects named in warrants although several of those named were already in jail in other investigations The raids were dealing a "decisive blow against those responsible for hateful crimes linked to international drug trafficking" The Naples sweep follows the capture in Spain on Saturday of Raffaele Amato an alleged Camorra boss who investigators say was one of Italy's top cocaine importers Amato is accused of several murders dating from the turf war that left more than a dozen people dead Pisani said today's sweep against the Amato-Pagano clan also targeted the illicitly gained wealth of Amato and others. Sky quoted investigators as saying assets were seized in Spain, Luxembourg, Germany and elsewhere in Europe.