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.
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