A massive mafia-busting- blitz led by a special squad of Italian police saw 169 arrests of people suspected of involvement in the notorious ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate in several Italian regions and in Germany on Tuesday. reports Ansa News
The anti-mafia operation was rooted in an investigation into the activities of the Farao-Marincola clan led by the former fugitive boss Silvio Farao, who was captured in 2014
The infamous clan’s infiltration of economic sectors allegedly allowed it to structure itself as ‘criminal holding’ conducting business worth millions of euros.
Assets worth a whopping 50 million euros were seized and two mayors in the province of Crotone, in the southern region of Calabria, were among the people arrested.
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