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18 arrests for illicit waste trafficking
'Ndrangheta boss Vallelonga nabbed, radioactive waste seized

(ANSA) - MILAN, FEB 9 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 18 people on suspicion of trafficking in illicit waste including toxic and radioactive substances in northern Italy.
Some 10 people were taken into custody in jail and eight more were placed under house arrest, police said.
Prosecutors said they had reconstructed the activities of a mafia waste trafficking gang near Lecco north of Milan allegedly led by a top member of the Calabria-based 'Ndrangheta mafia, Italy's richest and most powerful crime outfit, Cosimo Vallelonga.
Those arrested have been charged with mafia association, conspiracy to traffic illegal waste, tax fraud, money laundering, usury and extortion.
Lecco police carried out sweeps in Lombardy, Liguria and Emilia Romagna.
They seized a consignment of radioactive waste, (ANSA).


He returned to Italy in the afternoon today, around 16, with a flight from Morocco, but the police were waiting for him at Malpensa: Paolo Valsecchi, from Calolzio, was therefore arrested , the last one missing to the appeal among the arrested of the alleged criminal group at the center of the latest investigation against the 'Ndrangheta in the Lecco area.

For the investigators Valsecchi was the 'armed wing' of the group headed by Cosimo Vallelonga , the trusted man of the new boss.
In addition to Vallelonga, Vincenzo Marchio, Luciano Mannarino, Danilo Monti, Alessandro Malacorda, Vincenzo Pace, Claudio Gentile, Fabrizio Motta, Benedetto Parisi and now Paolo Valsecchi ended up in prison .

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An image of Paolo Valsecchi

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