Italian police on Monday
arrested 20 people and seized 100 million euros in assets in a
probe into the Neapolitan Camorra mafia's bid to "monopolise" a
"huge" chunk of the Italian road haulage market.
Investigators said the powerful Mallardo clan based in
Giugliano just outside Naples controlled "swathes" of the
southern and central Italian trucking market.
The arrests were made in Naples, Salerno, Palermo,
Caltanissetta, Catania and Bologna.
Coldiretti, a farmers' group, said fruit and vegetable
prices were inflated by as much as 300% because of the mafia's
control of transport to market.
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