Cops nab 54 in 'Ndrangheta mafia bust

(ANSA) - Rome, September 28 - Carabinieri police on Monday arrested 54 alleged mobsters in a crackdown on two elite clans of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
    The suspects face racketeering and drug trafficking charges, police said.
    The clans allegedly laundered some of their ill-gotten gains through a Dutch flower import-export company, investigators said.
    The crime syndicates were named as the Commisso clan operating out of the town of Siderno in Reggio Calabria province with affiliated in Canada and the Netherlands, and the Coluccio clan out of Marina di Gioiosa Jonica. The Commisso clan "can count on at least 500 hitmen", prosecutors said.