The most powerful and ­efficient “holding company” adapting to globalisation is the ’Ndrangheta criminal organisation, Italy’s parliamentary anti-Mafia commission warned on Wednesday.

In a 230-page report intended as a wake-up call to both a domestic audience and Italy’s neighbours, commission members said that while Sicily’s Cosa Nostra and other regional crime groups had been dealt serious setbacks, the ’Ndrangheta of Calabria, rooted in the “toe” of Italy, was on the rise worldwide.