18 'Ndrangheta arrests for tax fraud

(ANSA) - Milan, January 28 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 18 people on suspicion of tax fraud linked to a chapter of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia which has been bedded down in Lombardy for many years.
    The arrests were made by some 300 tax police in Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio, Val d'Aosta and Calabria.
    Police seized some 32 million euros in assets.
    The tax fraud amounted to over 160 million euros, police said.
    In a wiretap in the probe, police overheard one of the bosses saying the gang could make some four million euros a year from waste trafficking and disposal.