Italian police on Monday arrested
26 people and seized over 50 million euros in assets in a
cross-Italy operation against the Naples-based Camorra mafia.
The arrests were made in the provinces of Naples, Salerno,
Imperia, Cosenza, Ancona and Reggio Emilia.
The op targeted two separate Camorra groups, police said.
One was the Fabbrocino clan, historically present at
Poggiomarino, and the other was another big mafia group led by
Rosario Giuliano.
The latter is in jail but still led his gang via his girlfriend
Teresa Caputo, police said.
She got instructions from Giuliano, nicknamed "o' minorenne"
(The Kid), during jail visits, and conveyed them to the gang
members, police said.
Investigations have shed light, police said, on a series of
extortions and intimidations, using firearms, and also drug
trafficking, with much of the drugs being supplied by the
Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia which controls the European
cocaine trade.
Drugs were transported from 'Ndrangheta suppliers in coffee vans
and trucks, police said.
Searches turned up some 62 explosive devices at Poggiomarino,
police said.
They said bombs were used in Camorra extortion activities.
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