26 Camorra drugs arrests (5)

(ANSA) - Naples, June 3 - Italian police on Wednesday arrested 26 people on suspicion of dealing drugs for the Naples-based Camorra mafia in and around the southern Italian port city.
    Those arrested allegedly bought cocaine, via brokers, from the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta mafia, which controls the European cocaine trade, police said. Police said the D'Alessandro clan had claimed a monopoly over the drugs trade in a wide swathe of the Naples area including Castellammare di Stabia, Santa Maria La Carità, Vico Equense, the Sorrento peninsula (where it dealt to businessmen and professionals) and, thanks to a deal with the Afeltra-Di Martino, had spread to the Monti Lattari area.
    Police also seized 15 million euros in assets from the alleged gang: 12 motor vehicles, 13 apartments and villas, 46 current accounts, several savings books and credit cards, four companies including a dairy firm, a leather and fur shop, a taxi company at Castellammare di Stabia, and a shop selling cemetery objects at Rosarno in Calabria, and shares in a food takeaway company at Castellammare and a building firm at Salerno.