Over 100 police with sniffer
dogs fanned out Tuesday to make 28 arrests against the
Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta mafia in four Italian regions:
Calabria, Abruzzo, Campania and Lombardy.
Nineteen of the arrests were made in Abruzzo where police
said they dismantled an 'Ndrangheta cell that had penetrated
local businesses.
The arrestees have been charged with mafia conspiracy, drug
trafficking and loan sharking, among other offences.
'Ndrangheta is Italy's richest, most powerful and most
impenetrable mafia.
It controls the European cocaine trade.
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