Carabinieri police on Wednesday
arrested 108 people in a huge operation targetting clans
belonging to the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia.
The 'Ndrangheta is widely considered to have become Italy's most
powerful organized-crime syndicate thanks to its control over
much of the cocaine that arrives in Europe and its reach has
stretched outside its southern Italian base and gone beyond the
country's borders.
Wednesday's operation, which had the code name Eureka, primarily
hit the Nirta-Strangio and Morabito mafia clans in order to
dismantle an international drugs ring.
The suspects are accused of crimes including mafia association,
international drugs trafficking, arms trafficking and money
laundering.
The operation featured raids in Catanzaro, Vibo Valentia,
Pescara, Milan, Salerno, Catania, Savona, Bologna, Vicenza,
L'Aquila, Ancona, Rome and Cagliari.
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