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Time popular Nairobi casino boss was linked to Italian mafia

Gambling in a casino

In 1984, a major figure in the Italian mafia shattered its wall of secrecy for the first time in history.

Tommaso Buscetta broke the Mafia oath of silence, popularly known as Omerta. His revelations of the mafia’s inner workings reverberated across the world and later exposed its hushed activities in Kenya.

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