Coffee business 'laundered Camorra cash'

(ANSA) - Naples, June 19 - Police on Thursday arrested members of a family coffee business for allegedly laundering money for the Naples-based Camorra mafia. Among the arrests were brothers Antonio and Salvatore Di Puorto, their father, and several grandchildren. Police also seized 10 million euros in assets and property. The suspects are accused of laundering money through the Caffè del Sud coffee company, later renamed Nuova Caffè del Sud, which distributed coffee throughout the southern Campania region around Naples. Police said the Di Puorto family ran the company on behalf of the Schiavone faction of the notorious Casalesi clan, whose death threats have forced anti-mafia writer Roberto Saviano, of Gomorrah fame, into 24-hour police protection.