Police bust Camorra rag trade ring

(ANSA) - Rome, January 15 - Police on Thursday arrested 14 suspected members of a criminal organisation involved in the rag trade run by two alleged leaders of the southern Campania region's Camorra mafia.
    The suspects were arrested on charges of criminal association for special waste trafficking in connection with the sale of used clothes, textiles and accessories in Europe and Africa. Investigators suspect the organisation was run by Pietro Cozzolino, head of the Camorra clan of the same name operating in the Naples suburbs of Herculaneum and Portici, and his brother Aniello.
    Police also made searches and seizures in and around Rome, the Campania capital Naples and Salerno and in other regions as part of the operation.